Sport and Society: The Case of Brazilian Futebol Author(s): Robert M. Levine Source: Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter, 1980), pp. 233-252 Published by: University of Wisconsin Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3513101 . Accessed: 22/04/2014 10:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of Wisconsin Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Luso- Brazilian Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 140.233.2.215 on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:33:24 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Sport and Society: The Case of Brazilian Futebol Robert M. Levine Following four matches in July 1929 by the touring Chelsea Football Club against Brazilian teams, Mr. Steele, of the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, officially recommended that such future visits be discouraged, since the local partisans had behaved out- rageously, intimidated the referees, and, twice victorious, "claim as a nation to have beaten England."l Soccer, to be sure, has al- ways engendered hyperbole, especially in Latin America, with its reputation for moat-surrounded playing fields and soccer wars.