BEAUTIFUL CHAOS: The Socceroos and the 2014 World Cup by Peacock Adam

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS: The Socceroos and the 2014 World Cup by Peacock Adam

Author:Peacock, Adam [Peacock, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Sports
Publisher: Xoum Publishing
Published: 2014-11-25T16:00:00+00:00


Haphazard electrical wiring in Barreira do Vasco.

Just like any other community, there are differing living standards within a favela. In most of Australia it is luxury, good, liveable, bad. Here it is liveable, bad, worse, unthinkable. Unthinkable to us, yet for Lucas, it may as well be a palace. Good stories exist side by side with sad ones, which for the most part stay inside the bubble. Most who live outside favelas are immune to it all.

‘Ninety-nine per cent of Brazilians who aren’t from a favela haven’t been to one, and they look at you with a mix of shock and disgust as to why you would go to one,’ explains Conor. ‘Last week at the airport I met a lady from Belo Horizonte. I mentioned I work in a favela and she said, “Really, I couldn’t even imagine what it is like”. They think it’s a different world, they marginalise them and turn a blind eye.’

Plenty exasperates Conor, like how the Olympics will see a mass development in the Barra da Tijuca area on the other side of town, an area which needs fixing the least. Why not rejuvenate this area? Too hard. The government won these events to show Brazil off to the world, and they certainly don’t want to be showing off an area they are ashamed of. Which is a crime in itself because human spirit, the spine of any society, is as real here as anywhere. That spirit burns brightest in people like Conor and kings like Carlao.



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