Authoritarian regimes often used sports, especially football, for propaganda. For example, Mussolini did it in the 1934 World Cup, and was “copied” by Brazil in 1950 – except they lost the final match. Other times the kermesse is created out of nothing. This is the case of the Gold Cup played in Uruguay between 1980 and 1981. A basically useless competition, wanted by the deviated Masonic Lodge P2 and the Uruguayan dictatorship…
Uruguay 1980, il Mundialito della P2
Da Mussolini in poi (mondiali Italia 1934), i regimi autoritari (ma non solo) hanno sfruttato le grandi manifestazioni sportive internazionali per propaganda politica. A volte l’evento è persino creato dal nulla, come il Mundialito disputato in Uruguay a cavallo tra 1980 e 1981…