This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

When you, collars you, paravilius, incredible, exceptional.

Go!

When a Brazilian soccer player scores a goal, the announcer starts slow.

And it builds, until it reaches a glorious crescendo.

They do this all over the world now,

but it started in Brazil, and there's something particularly triumphant about it there.

That's producer Joe Sykes.

That's because soccer means so much to Brazil.

How can I explain what soccer means to Brazilians without sounding corny,

but I think I'm going to have to sound corny, okay?

That's Fernando Duarte, a BBC journalist who wrote a book about Brazilian soccer.

Soccer, or football as I call it, being British, arrived in Brazil in the late 19th century.

At first it was a game played in elite circles. Brazil in the late 19th century.

At first it was a game played in elite circles and in cities,

but poor and working-glass Brazilians

struggled to make the game their own.

The only time the elites were robbed or they were deprived of something by the poor people or by the common folk is when football ceased to be a game for the eliteitt and it became a mass sport.

Soccer eventually became so popular and beloved in Brazil that their national team soccer

jersey has become as much a national symbol as the country's flag.

We're going to see many more people in Brazil wearing the shirt than waving the flag.

As a sense of belonging, no matter if you earn, you know, peanuts picking up old sort of cans on the street or if you're a

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