Bobby Ghosh

Real love Desirée Rogério de Carvalho has filled his workshop with items that show his support for Fluminense, a Rio de Janeiro team. The mechanic failed to show up at his own wedding because he decided that going to a Fluminense game was more important

Football Comes Home

Brazilians are ambivalent about hosting the world cup, but, as these superf...

Brazilians are ambivalent about hosting the world cup, but, as these superfans show, their passion for the sport is undimmed

The following photos were taken in Rio de Janeiro in May and June 2014.
Carlos Henrique do Nascimento, 46, is known as Caíque. He is a bricklayer and goes to all the soccer games played by Rio de Janeiro's Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama. Caíque is said to bring luck to the team. He goes to all the games with a banner that reads faith and also brings the leaves of a rue plant, which many people in Brazil believe brings luck.

Football Comes Home: Soccer as Religion in Brazil

Brazil-based Sebastián Liste took these powerful photos of soccer fans and ...

Brazil-based Sebastián Liste took these powerful photos of soccer fans and soccer players in Rio de Janeiro, for whom football is no mere pastime, it is a religion.

TIME's International Editor Bobby Ghosh, left, with Pelé.

How I Finally Got My Picture With Pelé

This week, TIME International editor Bobby Ghosh stood for a photograph wit...

This week, TIME International editor Bobby Ghosh stood for a photograph with the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé—a snap that both fulfilled a childhood dream and ended a journalist's longstanding frustration

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014

No, Iran's Rouhani Doesn't Tweet

Time to stop imagining he's some kind of hipster-cleric and judge him by wh...

Time to stop imagining he's some kind of hipster-cleric and judge him by what he does

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2014

Will Japan and China Go to War?

Japan's Abe worries a conflict could be sparked by something unexpected

Whom to Watch at the World Economic Forum in Davos

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off Tuesday in the snowbound Swiss ...

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off Tuesday in the snowbound Swiss town of Davos, more than 40 heads of state and government will be competing to make a lasting impression, for themselves and...

Magnus playing beach volleyball in front of journalists in Kragero during his training for the chess championship. August 2013.

The Superstar and the Sex Symbol: The World's Highest Ranking Chess Champions

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chenn...

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s first superstar with its first sex symbol.