Brazil is the only country that has participated in every World Cup. It is also the only one to have won the Cup five times. The details of these achievements (as well as of the defeats suffered in between), and the backdrop of the political, social, economic and cultural moment in which each of them occurred, await you in this space. Here, Presidents, Miss Brazils, artists, trend-setters, anonymous fans and the geniuses of the field are the characters in this History.