
By Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Olympic women's football team was showered with joyous attention until their heart-breaking semi-final elimination on Tuesday which brought forward a key question: Was the interest the start of something big or another false dawn? Brazil does not have a season-long women's league, forcing 13 of those in the 18-strong squad to ply their trade overseas. "When we got to the Olympic final in 2004... we thought that it would take off, that it would get sponsorship, that a league would be created," said Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil coach at the time and the manager who led the men's team to their 1994 World Cup triumph.
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