Dressing the nation: historical, political and media disputes around the Brazilian national team’s jersey

This article explores the recent disputes related to the green-yellow jersey of the Brazilian men’s national football team. We will therefore address the far right’s rise in Brazil, represented by Bolsonarism, and its attempt to appropriate national symbols, including the Brazilian national team’s jersey. Guedes and Almeida (2019) named this phenomenon the second sequestration of the national team’s jersey and its context will be scrutinized here. We will emphasize the debate on the rejection of the Brazilian national team’s uniform by part of the population. Finally, we will analyze some media narratives that, in the months leading up to the 2022 World Cup, sought to disentail the Brazilian national team’s jersey from the far right, a phenomenon that we call “de- sequestration” .