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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Leftwing Brazilians hope to reclaim football jersey from Bolsonaro movement

Brazilians wearing football jerseys
A Workers’ party supporter wearing a football shirt in São Paulo on Sunday. Photograph: Reuters

Leftwing Brazilians are hoping to use their country’s first World Cup match to reclaim its well-known yellow and green football jersey from Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right movement.

The canarinho (little canary) shirt has become the most potent symbol of support for Brazil’s nationalist leader, who won power in 2018 but had his hopes of a second term dashed last month after leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential election.

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