Márvio dos Anjos

Football, Fan engagement, music, religion. Podcast host. Been at Destak/O Globo/Sportv. Contributing to The Times & FourFourTwo. There is more to come.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Ativação da @adidasbrasil no Shopping Eldorado. Duas chances para meter no ângulo e ganhar uma bola de society.

Pra quem estava com saudade de me ver feliz, SSSSSIIIIUUU.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

@josiasteofilo Papo é esse?

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Tal de Olisê não gosta de gol não…

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

@Anderson_Evange Saudades, fera!

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

As pessoas estão escolhendo lado na final da Copa do Mundo de racismo?

Vou esperar a opinião de Vini Jr.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Barcola tem o jeitão todinho do Bruno Henrique.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

So, we Brazilians are all agreeing that we need to become Catholic again to win the World Cup, right?

Good grief.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

The very idea that Brazilian Evangelicalism drains Brazilian players of their joy is a striking display of ignorance about what Pentecostal churches in Brazil have become.

Don’t you remember debating in 2022 whether Vini Jr and others should dance after scoring against Korea?

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Foreign press, please stop the religious BS.

Brazil are not winning the FWC cos football has developed all over the world, whilst the last 4 years were full adm. nonsense in the Brazilian FA: 4 managers (Ramon, Diniz, DJr and Ancelotti), 2 presidents and gruesome political wars

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

The very idea that Brazilian Evangelicalism drains Brazilian players of their joy is a striking display of ignorance about what Pentecostal churches in Brazil have become.

Don’t you remember debating in 2022 whether Vini Jr and others should dance after scoring against Korea?

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Foreign press, please stop the religious BS.

Brazil are not winning the FWC cos football has developed all over the world, whilst the last 4 years were full adm. nonsense in the Brazilian FA: 4 managers (Ramon, Diniz, DJr and Ancelotti), 2 presidents and gruesome political wars

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

@julianobelletti Parabéns, Belletti. Arrebentou.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Absolute BS. Brazil is not winning because football has developed all over the world, whilst the last four years were full administrative nonsense in the Brazilian FA, with 4 managers (Ramon, Diniz, Dorival and Ancelotti), two presidents and gruesome political wars.

[Institute for Hispano Studies @hispano_studies]

The discourse connecting Brazilian soccer to Protestantism points to a deeper cultural claim: that Brazil’s football decline is not merely tactical, generational, or administrative, but spiritual and civilizational.

The argument is that the old Brazilian style — playful, communal, improvised, joyful, almost liturgical in its beauty — emerged from a Catholic cultural world where celebration, embodiment, festivity, and collective identity were natural. Football was art, dance, procession, neighborhood, and gift.

The critique of Evangelical or Neopentecostal influence is not simply “religion made them worse.” It is that a different religious imagination produces a different kind of athlete: more individualistic, more testimonial, more focused on personal salvation, discipline, destiny, and moral performance. In that framework, football can become less carnaval and more career; less shared national myth and more platform for the individual believer.

Brazil’s decline obviously has many causes: tactics, European club football, federation dysfunction, money, coaching, player development, and global competition. But the religious argument touches something statistics miss: the loss of a national soul, or at least the feeling that Brazil no longer plays with the same sacred joy.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Que benção os comentários da Cristiane Roseira.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Ancelotti inventou uma escalação para a estreia. Creio que gerou uma enorme ansiedade, à qual os jogadores se referiram na saída de campo.

Foi melhor na coletiva, em que mostrou alto grau de diplomacia, sem criar uma crise maior. Aula de media training para técnicos sob pressão.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

A chegada de Ederson ajuda a sustentar o meio-campo para o 4-3-3, mas ainda é pouco para uma Copa de oito partidas para ser campeão. Lesões, ganchos e até expulsões sumárias extracampo podem ocorrer.

Conseguimos transformar uma convocação de 26 jogadores num elenco curto.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

Ancelotti está buscando convicções e não estamos discutindo isso com profundidade.

Sua convocação para um 4-2-4 não considerava sequer os jogos ultra-físicos que o time fará contra Marrocos e Escócia, com enorme tendência a amarelar Casemiro dos treinos e outros defensores.

[Márvio dos Anjos @marvio]

E esse Oscar aqui? Vai sair quando?

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

Heir to Pelé or fallen star? In search of the real Neymar

@JamesGheerbrant travelled to Brazil, where the forward is both indulged and reviled, to find out if he can be the nation's saviour at the World Cup

Read here: https://t.co/GE9wltskaU

[James Gheerbrant @JamesGheerbrant]

In collaboration with @marvio. With thanks to Zico, Eduardo Musa, Muricy Ramalho and @MSavarese for their contributions

[James Gheerbrant @JamesGheerbrant]

Back at Santos, cradle of Pelé, as Brazil's record scorer: it should be a fairytale. Yet Neymar stands for avarice & 'happiness squandered'; a possible hero, lost. As the World Cup squad looms, will he get one last chance to reclaim his story? Piece from 🇧🇷https://t.co/PaeAc76ZMV