Eduardo and Dancing with the Devil

After the vest, the documentary



Eduardo and Dancing with the Devil

Message revealed after the second goal v Wolves on Saturday


For those interested in learning more about the meaning behind the message on Eduardo’s vest on Saturday, I’ve been asked to mention a documentary on More 4 this evening.

The filmmaker is Jon Blair, co-incidentally an Arsenal fan.

There’s a comment about the situation in Rio on this page, which I’ll reproduce here –

Before he went to Croatia Eduardo was born and raised in a favela or slum called Vila Kennedy on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (The correct spelling is with one 'l" but whoever embroidered his vest made an error and put two 'l's" in Villa.)
 Watch "DANCING WITH THE DEVIL" on More 4 on Tuesday 10th November at 10pm. This film about drug related gang violence in Rio de Janeiro has a long section about Vila Kennedy and includes an interview with the leader of the Red Command gang in Vila Kennedy who calls himself Nike. He explains how there has been a peace treaty between his gang and the rival Pure Third Command Gang from the neighbouring Coreia slum but since the film was finished, the leader of the Coreia gang has been killed by the police and the new boss of Coreia is now trying to take over Vila Kennedy, hence the extreme violence that has started again. Several people have been killed in Vila Kennedy either by the rival gang from Coreia or by the cops. 
In this film you see Rio's top drug lords talking openly and showing their faces for the first time ever and you learn a huge amount about the lives of people in the favelas where Eduardo grew up. A must watch.


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