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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C. O. W. S. Mário Filho's The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer Part 4 #PELÉ #RicePowder
Description: The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the debut 4th study session on Mário Filho's 1947 The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer, translated to English by Jack A. Draper III. Brazilian football (soccer) legend Pelé died near the end of 2022 at the age of 82. The only player to win 3 World Cup Championships and voted "Athlete of the 20th Century" according to many White journalists and historians, Pelé is classified as black and was born in 1940, a measly 52 years after Brazil abolished formal enslavement of black people in 1888. Racists didn't even allow black people to play football/soc...