For Brazilians, football is not a matter of life and death—it is much more important than that, as Bill Shankly, a Liverpool manager, once said. So, with the national sport mired in allegations of corruption and its once-invincible yellow shirts playing poorly in the Olympics and the World Cup qualifiers, it should be no surprise that Brazil's Congress is launching an investigation. Or rather, two: both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies are setting up committees of inquiry because they could not agree on the terms of a joint one. The lower house set up its inquiry on October 17th. Yet hopes of a thorough investigation of the many allegations surrounding Brazilian football were somewhat dented by the fact that deputies linked to football clubs or federations bagged one-third of the places.
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