When Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon rainforest in early April, he departed with the hopes of representing his people as a professional soccer player and, maybe, one day playing for the Brazilian national team at the World Cup.
Mura's first step toward earning the chance to don the famous yellow jersey once worn by Pelé and so many other Brazilian soccer greats will take place on Sunday in an empty stadium in Rio de Janeiro with a team exclusively made up of Indigenous players.
