No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol £ 30

by Julian Germain, Murilo Godoy, Patricia Azevedo with children and young women from Cascalho, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Published by Basalt, 1998

Hardcover, 275 X 208mm, 120 pages, 87 colour photos and paintings, English / Portuguese

Designed by Willem van Zoetendaal

The essay, ‘The History of Cascalho’ is a collective text by the children of Cascalho, edited with Azevedo, Germain and Godoy.

ISBN-9075574126

Proceeds fund ongoing projects with homeless people in Belo Horizonte

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In the beginning there was nothing, not a stone or a tree. Dinosaurs were everywhere. There was only one little house, far in the distance; Eve and Adam’s. They made a bomb and destroyed all the dinosaurs. Then Adam and Eve made us and sent us to live here in Cascalho. Then came chickens, dogs, birds, horses, cats, pigs, rabbits, goats, rats, cockroaches, and many more people. Cascalho is a favela, not a farm and not in the country. It is not really like in the city, but the city is all around us. I was born here and now I am being raised here. It’s a wonderful place if you are used to living with all kinds of people; happy, sad etc. Here, everyone tries to help each other. The favela is the hill and our hill gives us an open view of the city, and the entrance to our favela is the football pitch.

From, ‘The History of Cascalho’. Collective text by the children of Cascalho.

Between 1995 and 1998 photography, painting and writing workshops took place in the favela (shanty town) of Cascalho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. As the 1998 World Cup approached the images were sold to magazines and newspapers (including Suddeutsche Zeitung, L’Express and the Independent) to finance the publication of this book; No Mundo Maravilhoso do Futebol - The Wonderful World of Football. Revenue generated by sales of No Mundo was then ploughed back into Cascalho, enabling the residents to build a library and community centre, which opened in 2002.