Nelson Rodrigues

Nelson Rodrigues was born on 23 August 1912 in Recife, the son of the journalist Mário Rodrigues, with whom he moved to Rio as a child. He began very young as a crime reporter on his father's newspaper, in whose offices he lost his brother Roberto in 1929, shot by a woman who was aiming at their father. A journalist all his life, he wrote about football at the Jornal dos Sports. An avowed anti-communist, he supported the military dictatorship under certain conditions. He died in Rio on 21 December 1980.

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