Good documentary about the business of the world cup in Brazil 2014. Fifa works as a mob, and its choices do not aim to boost football or to benefit the people from where its competitions are hosted, but just to maximize its own profit, with social damage and illegal activities. The world cup in Brazil had a much higher cost than expected, with the building of unnecessary stadiums (and the destruction of historic structure of Maracanã stadium, what is not mentioned in the film), what allowed a lot of corruption both by Brazilian agents and by Fifa managers. Besides that, many poor people have been ousted from their homes, with serious drawbacks in their lives. All this is well addressed in the film, with good testimonies and great edition and cinematography. The dissatisfaction with that led to many protests, which have been violently brutalized by coward police. Eventually, other protests would succeed those and, after that progressive concern, big media and businessmen would use it to favor a coup in 2016, with longstanding consequences. That was not addressed in the movie, as it was not the subject, focused in the Fifa dark business of world cup and its damages. Anyway, this is well done and important. I consider it better and more encompassing than two other doxumentaries also about dirty football world cups: Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'A Copa do Mundo no Recife' and British documentary 'The Workers Cup', the latest not about Brazilian World Cup but about the building of stadiums in Qatar for 2022 world cup.
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