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Students play a game of foosball before the announcement of the list of Brazil national team players for the 2022 Soccer World Cup in Qatar, at the Paulo Freire municipal school where the player Vinicius Jr. studied, in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Four years ago teenager Vinicius Jr. took his first medal from a professional soccer tournament home, a place where drug gangs and vigilantes fight for control and children dribble past garbage on the streets. Today, Vinicius is a key figure on BrazilâÄ™s World Cup team. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)