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“Here, overtly, was the imperial lion transformed into something cheeky and welcoming—but it was also a commercial ploy, a mascot whose image could transform anything from T-shirts to tea towels into a salable souvenir: imperialism first defanged by an increasingly classless irreverence and then repackaged as commercial junk.”

“Brazil is a land of myth, a place where objective fact struggles for traction, and few have been so mythologized as Pelé.”