Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Brazil goes abegging

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DEXTER MARSHALL is living his Brazilian dream.
If only he could get everyone else to share it.
Don’t tell him that Barbados is Brazil country, not after the organizer personally witnessed the poor team turnouts and even worse crowd attendance for last week’s inaugural Os Barbados Youth International Football Tournament.
“I am very, very, very, very, very disappointed,” said a disillusioned Marshall over the lack of response to the historic tourney.
“I mean this is history here. I have heard a lot of old football fans saying they have never seen a Brazilian team in person. Yet here it is that there are three here and people aren’t coming out to watch them.
 
Read full story in today’s MIDWEEK NATION.

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