Beyond Winning or Losing: Brazil’s Socrates

My greatest wish for the Brazilian team in this unavoidably painful third-place game is that: win or lose, they can focus less on the pressure to win and remember those aspects of soccer – the joy, the teamwork, the fun, the way it brings people together – that make this sport beautiful and subversive; that make it truly the people’s game. The great Brazilian captain Socrates understood this well.