IRIS: "Brazil is the world's most football-influenced country" (Zaluar, Embassy of Brazil)

"Brazil, a less-than-200-year-old nation-state, is the world's most football-influenced country," said Achilles Zaluar, the minister-counsellor and deputy head of the mission at the Brazilian embassy in France, during the panel discussion "Sport: A Geopolitical Issue?", which was organised by the IRIS (Institute of International and Strategic...