In Brazil, many fans can no longer afford football, neither in the stadium nor on television. But the drug cartels are making a great offer: the whole world of football in one app. About a business that’s too good to be legal.
In Rio de Janeiro’s Cidade Alta, you see nothing of the famous beach life on Copacabana, the legendary Maracanã Stadium is almost twenty kilometers away, and the Cristo Redentor persistently shows the downside of the Zona Norte, in which the favela is located. The Rio of the rich and tourists is out of reach for most of the favela residents. But one thing seemed to bind all layers of the city together for decades: football.