The respected footballer activist Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates, is reputed to have once said: “I am not a footballer, I am a human being.” With these words, but more importantly the political stances he took and practical actions he got involved in, Sócrates defied the growing image More

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