The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz

The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz

The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...
The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz [[MORE]]
Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.
Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer,...

The Beautiful Game in Brasil: Photography by Christopher Pillitz

Forget World Cup hype for a moment. Let’s go back 120 years.

Football came to Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller, the son of an expatriate Scottish railway engineer, disembarked in Santos carrying two balls. While he was essentially anonymous in Britain, Miller is a household name in Brazil, commemorated in statues and street names.

Brazilians swiftly took to the sport. At their bestthe national teams that won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups and Pelé’s all-conquering Santos FCthey turned football into an art form, o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Gilberto Freyre, an anthropologist and historian, thought that Brazilians played football as “if it was a dance”. And, as Christopher Pillitz’s photography shows, football is the preferred dance for millions, even in the land of samba.

Find more of Pillitz’s work in Intelligent Life’s feature. Posted by Eric.