Clara Becker is from Rio de Janeiro. She is a Botafogo fan and a reporter for the magazine Veja Brasília. She worked for piauí magazine from 2009 to 2013. Her piece ‘Congressman Romário: Big Fish in the Aquarium’ is featured in The Football Crónicas, published by Ragpicker Press in 2014.
‘Football is a game; it’s not real life. But in a continent as illogical as Latin America, the lines blur.’
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