In terms of the applause meter and the number of microphones held out to him, he beat everyone hands down, eclipsing the Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games in the process. Former Brazilian playmaker Raï was acclaimed this Saturday morning in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis). Not only because he was, in the 1990s, the emblematic captain of PSG. The Auriverde footballer was the guest of honor at the first inauguration of a street in the Olympic village currently being finished. She is named after her big brother Sócrates, who died in 2011.
This football legend had an aura that went far beyond the world of football. “Doctor Sócrates” was the figure of “Corinthian democracy”, a way of managing this Brazilian football club through self-management. A democratic “method” that became a political movement forty years ago when the country was in the midst of a dictatorship.
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