Sports Diplomacy And Social Media Clash In Brazil

... first city in South America to host the Olympic Summer games. Although many Americans were unhappy that Brazil earned the “first world” status to be awarded major sports competitions U.S. president Barack Obama acknowledged the value of sports diplomacy and did a publicity photo modeling a jersey of Rio football team Flamengo during his 2011 visit to Brazil and promised to return for the FIFA World Cup. Relatively immune from the global crisis that developed in 2008 Brazil, coincidentally, began to experience a slowdown in growth a few months after the Obama visit. Experts and government officials ...