Jun 11, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: This Brazilian Soccer Team Plays for a Chance to Battle Their Prison Guards

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Prisoners from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil play soccer on a barbed wire encircled court.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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A prison guard handcuffs an inmate from Cell 13.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Cell 13 players warm up inside their cell.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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The team from Cell 13 of the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil. April 2014.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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The guards from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil. April 2014.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Prisoner portrait from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Prisoner portrait from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Guard portrait from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Guard portrait from the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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The soccer court inside the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Prisoners practice inside their cell at the Geraldo Beltrão Penitentiary in João Pessoa, Brazil.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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All the games are played barefoot because it's a sand court.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Inmates juggle in the Geraldo Beltrão kitchen.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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The winning inmate team played a team made up of prison guards for the grand championship.

Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Cell 9 v. Cell 15 in the penitentiary championship. April 4, 2014.
Photo: Nicolò Lanfranchi for COLORS magazine, issue no. 90 - Football (June 2014)
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Cell 15’s Ivonaldo Rodrigues da Silva Filho, 24, has been incarcerated for six years for murder and theft.

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