June 15, 2014, 02:50 PM
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Cricket Sage
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Join Date: May 18, 2005
Location: New England
Favorite Player: Mominul Haque
Posts: 24,706
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Originally Posted by shaad
I recall, very early in the 70s, one of the standard board Bangla primers/textbooks (perhaps আমার বই) having a section on SMR and Independence, followed by one on Pele and Brazil (titled, I think, ফুটবলের রাজা). I suspect that might have been the initial introduction of Brazil as a footballing nation to many children in the 70s. The mesmerizing but heartbreaking 1982 and 1986 teams just reinforced the support.
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That same book contained the story of a lady who lived nearby a forest and once saved herself from an attacking Royal Bengal Tiger waving a colorful umbrella that she possessed.
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