{"id":36949,"date":"2026-07-18T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/some-world-cup-fans-are-blaming-brazils-loss-on-evangelicals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:27:22","slug":"some-world-cup-fans-are-blaming-brazils-loss-on-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/some-world-cup-fans-are-blaming-brazils-loss-on-evangelicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Some World Cup fans are blaming Brazil\u2019s loss on evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_KJpZtLLOGJP?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=3.2.3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"136px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(RNS) \u2014 Brazil\u2019s loss to Norway on July 5 eliminated the team that has won more FIFA World Cups than any other nation \u2014 five \u2014 and is the only one to have played in every edition of the tournament. But they haven\u2019t tasted victory in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The glorious days of Pel\u00e9 earned him the admiration of fans far beyond Brazil. He led the team to FIFA World Cup victory three times between 1958 and 1970 and helped give the national team \u2014 the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o \u2014 a passionate global following that reached well past Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The players Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, who lifted the trophy in 2002, charmed fans of the world\u2019s most popular sport with their dribbling and \u201cjogo bonito\u201d (beautiful game).<\/p>\n<p>The newer generations of the national team have spent years being measured against those memories. But after this early exit in the round of 16, fans and commentators online have circulated a theory. The team\u2019s change in playing style, they argue, mirrors the religious transformation that\u2019s been under way in Brazil for decades: The more evangelical the country has become, the worse their national team has performed.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as one widely shared post put it, Brazil is suffering a \u201chistoric loss of aura.\u201d Another popular line in the debate simply says: \u201cIf we pray like a gringo, then we play like a gringo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These fans link Catholicism, once the country\u2019s overwhelming majority faith, to improvisation, the samba and the dribbling of past generations. Popular Catholicism in Brazil is often understood as more communal and festive, making fewer severe demands of religious commitment on its adherents, while evangelicalism in Brazil is more often associated with prohibitions and austerity. The fans supporting the theory associate evangelical growth in the country \u2014 and in the faith most current players themselves profess \u2014 to a more structured, austere, rigid way of playing.<\/p>\n<p>The census numbers behind the internet theory are real. Brazil\u2019s transition away from a Catholic majority has been one of the defining religious stories of Latin America over the past 40 years. Evangelical Christians, who made up roughly 9% of Brazilians in 1991, reached 27% by 2022, while Catholics fell from 83% to 57% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Of the eight nations that have won the World Cup, six (Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and France) are majority Catholic. The other victors, England and Germany, also have a fair share of Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/07\/12\/ken-early-are-brazil-bad-now-because-of-protestantism\/\">three-fourths<\/a> of Brazil\u2019s current team are evangelical Christians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut transposing that onto the players\u2019 behavior and performance is a stretch,\u201d said Pedro Feitoza, a historian of religion in Latin America and assistant professor at the University of Edinburgh. He attributes the theory mostly to nostalgia for the past, when Brazilian Catholics made up a strong majority.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The reasons for the shift are many, Feitoza told RNS, including the legal ease of opening a new church in Brazil. In many evangelical denominations, leaders rarely go through seminary training. And the movement\u2019s responsiveness to pressures faced by lower-income Brazilians offers a sense of belonging and community along with the promise of upward mobility. There is also a tradition of individual evangelism, in which congregants are encouraged to convert friends, neighbors and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Still, close observers agree that Brazil\u2019s national team has changed the way it plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe traditional Brazilian style was boldness, dribbling, individual plays, less concern with tactics, offensive play,\u201d J\u00falio Nascimento, a Brazilian sports journalist, told RNS. But he attributed the change to the way Brazilian players now leave for Europe very young and develop within a European style of play. They become pragmatic and tactically obedient, he said, with individual talent subsumed by the system.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4269093\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 208px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4269093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-208x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-208x369.jpg 208w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-360x640.jpg 360w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-300x533.jpg 300w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/webRNS-Soccer-Brazil02.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text edd-enabled\"><span class=\"caption\">An image of the Virgin Mary on a Brazil jersey during a Brazil-Scotland watch party in a public square on June 24, 2026, in New Haven, Connecticut. ( Helen Teixeira\/RNS Photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pedro Alamino, a Brazilian sports content creator who covers soccer, largely agreed. Soccer as a whole has changed, he said: Where dribbling and individual genius used to carry more weight, physical conditioning now counts for more. The national team\u2019s identity is now shaped by Europe, the biggest market in this sport. For him, the game has lost some of the greater emphasis on a \u201cwinning spirit\u201d and fighting mentality that it had in the past.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one change that reshaped players\u2019 conduct off the field more than any other factor, both commentators agreed, it\u2019s the rise of social media, and with it, players exposing far more of their personal lives than earlier generations did. But when asked whether this shift in off-field conduct could be attributed to religion, both were skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelical players have long been part of Brazil\u2019s winning teams. Seven players on Brazil\u2019s 1994 World Cup-winning squad \u2014 including goalkeeper Cl\u00e1udio Taffarel and defender Jorginho \u2014 were evangelical Christians, and several of them famously formed a prayer circle at midfield after the deciding penalty kick against Italy in the final. FIFA has since restricted political, religious or personal statements on national team uniforms, but such expressions of faith persist online, including among current players. Kak\u00e1, who won the Ballon d\u2019Or (award for best player in the world) in 2007, was one of the most visible evangelical stars in Brazilian soccer.<\/p>\n<p>And while the number of evangelicals on the team did rise around the same time Brazil\u2019s results dropped off, Nascimento called that a coincidence. \u201cTo try to explain why the national team isn\u2019t winning, people look for explanations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pace of evangelical growth has slowed in recent years. \u201cAs generations pass, believers develop different ways of relating to Brazilian culture,\u201d Feitoza said, noting that evangelical symbols \u2014 worship music, for instance \u2014 are now part of mainstream Brazilian pop culture, and the friction between evangelicals and the Catholic majority has softened over time. \u201cBeing evangelical today, in 2026, is certainly different from what it was to be evangelical in 2000, or in the late 1990s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Feitoza also cautioned against treating the two traditions as more distinct than they are in practice. Many symbols and practices attributed to evangelicalism are also absorbed and practiced within Brazilian Catholicism. Even the contrast between the festive spirit of popular Catholicism and the austerity and rigidity of evangelicalism has grown less visible in practice. \u201cIn Brazil\u2019s complex religious reality,\u201d he said, \u201cin the end, both are drinking from a shared religious culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soccer, and especially the World Cup, has always done double duty, carrying national identity and cultural narratives along with the game. In a country where the national team\u2019s reputation functions as a form of soft power and a pillar of national identity in ways few other countries share, 24 years without a title, with no clear turnaround in sight, is a hard \u201cjejum\u201d (fast) to sit through.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the theory fails as an explanation for what happened on the field, its popularity may say something true about a deeper need many Brazilians feel to explain a loss that goes beyond soccer itself \u2014 the loss of such a strong Catholic majority in Brazil. 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