(AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes)
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) The historic wave of protests that has swept across Brazil in recent days has gained some important allies - the players of the Brazilian national football team.
Brazil is hosting the Confederations Cup, a tournament of continental champions which serves as a warm-up for next year's World Cup, but the Brazilian players' focus has turned to the demonstrations which have taken over a country fighting for improvements in basic services such as public transportation, schools and hospitals.
The Brazilian players had been trying to avoid the subject, but it became impossible not to talk about it after hundreds of thousands of countrymen took to the streets to show their displeasure with politicians, authorities and local government.
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