U.S. citizen Paul Leaury, right, and an unidentified fellow foreign member of the Mangueira samba school, dance during a carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 12, ...

Samba and football were adopted by country’s working classes in 1930s and have been passed down via Pelé to new generation “I was afraid of playing football because I had often seen a black player get ...