The Eighteenth Brumaire

.Tostão and Pelé, in 1970, Maradona in 1986, both in the Azteca Stadium:

if it depended solely on the uniforms, a memorable South Africa'10

Hardly any team will emerge in this World Cup like Brazil in 1970. And it's also unlikely, at Johannesburg's Soccer City, to see a genious like Diego Maradona.

But, for all (visual) purposes, Argentina will play with a t-shirt that's almost a replica of its 86's - and Brazil, like announced yesterday, will be wearing an uniform quite similar to that of 1970.

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Talking about Napoleon III's military coup against the French Parliament, in 1851, Marx wrote that "history repeats itself - first as tragedy, second as farce". That's it.
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