Football is more than just a passion for men; it is a passion that has become and always has been worldwide. Although many people think that football is a Brazilian sport, the merit actually comes from an invention in England. This sport took on its modern form at the end of the 19th century, so it is not a Brazilian creation, but it has become a sport used all over the world as a hobby or even as a leisure sport.
In the world and especially in Brazil, football has consolidated itself as a mass sport: although there were elite teams, the vast majority of football teams that remain to this day became groups of workers or even students, who gathered to play football on the neighborhood field or even on the street outside their homes.
An interesting fact about Brazilian football is that the first organized fan group that people saw in public was made up of a very large and exclusive group of women. This fan group is an organized fan group for the Atlético Mineiro team, whose mother, one of the team's founders, called Dona Alicia, made the flags used by the women to cheer. Girls, women, girlfriends and partners of the men went to the stadium to cheer for their team, Atlético Mineiro.
We can say that today the organized fans are not there at the same time as Dona Alicia, so today's football is highly professionalized, so the smaller clubs have become big companies that end up making a lot of profit from the sale of players from the lower categories, thus benefiting significantly.
Big clubs end up doing the same thing as small clubs, but they sell great players at very high prices and put younger players in their place, all so that they too can become stars. This mechanism ends up fueling the football industry and maintaining it to this day.
Another interesting fact about football is that technological development also accompanies this entire process, as new materials are developed that are increasingly flexible and resistant, all for football boots, lightweight materials that will help the body breathe during matches, and balls have less and less friction on the field.
The result of all this is a process that becomes clearer when we hear older people, such as parents or grandparents, tell us that football is no longer the same as it used to be, that the team and the team's shirt were played with more love, and not for earning the high salaries paid today.
But what they forget and shouldn't be is that almost 90% of professional players are paid low wages and still aspire to a very high salary gain, so they earn a very high salary and play for the love of football.
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Championships
In Brazil, the best-known men's championships are the state championships (Paulistão, Mineirão, Carioca...), we also have the Brasileirão (a championship with points that has a table and two better-known series A and B), the Copa do Brasil championship (a knockout championship), the Libertadores da América (a championship played throughout South America) and the winner competes in the World Championship against the winner of the Champions League.