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Why don't today's footballers think like Socrates?
Author Andrew Downie discusses his book, Doctor Socrates, and a player who introduced democracy to the football club where he made his name, even as the rest of Brazil was in the grip of a military dictatorship in the early 1980s.
Picture: Socrates. Credit: Getty Images.
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