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 The whims of Brazilian players...the shock of sudden wealth and excessive openness

Robinho, Dani Alves, Gabriel Barbosa, Ardiano, and many other Brazilian stars threw away their football careers and their lives for a completely unnecessary whim: taking drugs and stimulants, or chasing girls, which did not bring them only troubles, problems, and lawsuits.

The lack of commitment and the moral disturbance of certain Brazilian actors are not only the result of the shock of leaving a very poor environment towards wealth and luxury, or symptoms of sudden wealth, but rather they seem to be behaviors influenced by a difficult economic environment. , social customs, and particular beliefs.

The economic situation of Brazil

According to World Bank data, Brazil has one of the worst income inequalities in the world, due to endemic corruption in the country and financial scandals involving many politicians.

This economic situation is reflected in the situation of football in Brazil and its clubs, not to mention the terrible media disparities between the major European leagues and their Brazilian counterparts, which translate into significant financial differences in broadcast revenues, which leads to the inability of Brazilian clubs to ensure the salaries of players and workers, and can even cause... They often go bankrupt, and this is one of the reasons why players leave for European leagues.

The website Bleacher Report reported in 2008 that the number of Brazilians joining European leagues reached a thousand players each year, and this number increased in 2023 to around 1,300 players.

The impact of the economic aspect on society

Poverty in Brazil is causing a surge in violent crime, Manchester United right winger Anthony wrote on The Players' Tribune blog.

The player detailed his upbringing in the favela of Osasco, a municipality in São Paulo, which locals called "little hell" due to the heavy presence of drug traffickers and widespread murders. He also mentioned that he once encountered a dead body on his way home from school and said that this was normal for those who lived in that area, to the point that he closed his eyes and walked over the body lifeless as if nothing had happened. Arrived.

Do traditions have an impact on player behavior?

It is said that Brazil has a civilization in which one can express oneself freely, but at the same time, it is a civilization that lacks certain values of discipline. These are people who don't pay attention to personal boundaries, as Josh Hackman, a blogger on a social networking site, said.

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We can say that these traditions have an impact on the players and their behavior because they like to party crazy to the point of not respecting the rules, like Ronaldinho and certainly Robinho himself. When he was a Manchester City player, he had problems with his teammate at the time, Craig Bellamy, who was not a big fan of the "Brazilian gang": "Their behavior was incomprehensible to him and bothered him even several times, and this was Glauber's opinion. At least, who was a member of this gang?

Glauber, who played for Manchester City between 2008 and 2009, highlighted the fact that - like most Brazilians - they were being themselves and were simply happy by nature. While these traits can be linked to happiness, they can also lead to an invasion of personal boundaries, and this is what likely put Alves behind bars, which could cause the same fate for Robinho, as this excessive openness and indifference to the rules can attract him. .. Problems on all sides.

The scandalous differences between the salaries of players at Brazilian league clubs and their counterparts in major European leagues make it difficult for Samba stars not to take advantage of this extreme wealth to do whatever they want, even if they break the law, due to the lack of discipline of the values mentioned above, which instead leads them to... Imprisonment or death in their country can lead them to the same result, but ultimately world.