Amazon Peladao: a soccer tournament unlike any other

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — It’s 4:10 a.m. in the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon region, and striker Suzy Carvalho is busy preparing for the biggest game of her amateur career.
Dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers, the 34-year-old mother of two steps out of her boyfriend’s rented bedroom and into the night, walking a tight favela road and climbing a steep stairway to catch a bus. While neighbors return home from a hard night of partying, Carvalho thinks about her strategy