Brazil Soccer Capital Shifts to Site of 7-1 World Cup Drubbing
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Belmiro Oliveira has been massaging the aching limbs of players at the Atletico Mineiro soccer team for 46 years. In all his time with the Brazilian club he’s never known a period like this.
Atletico’s intensifying rivalry with neighbor Cruzeiro has left the pair ruling Brazil for two years, turning the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte into the home of the country’s best soccer.