Big games, big names… and smaller companies

'Brazil should be looking to the future rather than to the past'

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O jogo bonito – 'the beautiful game' – is practically a religion in Gabriel Sacks' home nation of Brazil. Here he links the current World Cup, Neymar joining the national side at the tournament and investing in smaller companies...

You have very probably come across a fair few football-themed investment columns over the years. They inevitably surface at the start of a new season or, even more predictably, whenever a World Cup comes along.  I hereby add to the canon. Before you dismiss what follows as another cliché-fest, though, please bear in mind that – perhaps uniquely – I am contributing to this wearily familiar genre as a Brazilian who invests in Asian smaller companies.  As a result, my starting point is a question that has dominated the thoughts of millions of Seleçao fans for many weeks: was Brazil manag...

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