Nutmegging starry-eyed clips of great players in action, this brilliant, bittersweet trio of films about Brazilian football is all about the human cost of a nation's obsession. The first follows Rio lads struggling to make it as footballers and while stories of playing soccer in slums, using bunched-up socks instead of a ball, are cliché fodder, there's an edge here. Failure isn't just the death of an idle dream for these guys - not making it pro condemns most to a future spent dodging bullets and drug dealers en route to an early death.
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