Saturday 08 November 2008, 08:00
Only once in a blue moon does an incident like this come along... a player flashing a card at the referee. And it’s usually just a bit of fun. Paul Gascoigne once did it, after the man in black had dropped his cards , only the ref didn’t find it funny...
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Monday 03 November 2008, 15:00
When Sebastian Vettel’s Toro Rosso overtook Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren with two laps left of the Brazilian GP, I heard an unprecedented roar of celebration come through the window here in São Paulo – and my flat, I should add, is as far as Interlagos as...
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Friday 03 October 2008, 10:00
There’s two legends surrounding the origins of futsal, whose FIFA World Cup started this week in Brazil. The first dictates the sport was created in the 1930’s in Uruguay by Montevideo YCMA’s professor Juan Carlos Ceriani. The second tells that it first...
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Saturday 27 September 2008, 11:00
Down there in the South, there’s a small part of Brazil whose football was forged in the traditional Argentinian mould – a hard, physical game with strength over skills. It’s the Rio Grande do Sul state, and it has their own Boca-River-like die-hard hate...
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Sunday 21 September 2008, 13:00
September 19, 1993. 15 years ago. Brazil vs Uruguay at Maracanã, the last game of the 1994 World Cup qualifiers. Bolivia and Uruguay led the group with 10 points. Brazil had 9. A draw would kiss the then three-time World Champions' chances of reaching...
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Thursday 18 September 2008, 15:00
Lord almighty, I feel my temperature rising! Alopecic midfielder and old-timer Elvis fan Paulo Baier set the Brazilian championship alight last Saturday by leading Goiás to a 2-1 away victory at leaders Grêmio. Baier’s superb performance, which included...
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Friday 12 September 2008, 17:00
As I was saying last week , young Robinho was a true gem. Expectations were sky high in Brazil, the result of the two National Championships he delivered to Santos in 2002 and 2004. He was unanimously the country’s top football star. When Real Madrid...
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Wednesday 10 September 2008, 17:00
See, it wasn’t so hard was it? The 3-0 away win against Chile brought some much-needed lull days for Brazil, after weeks of turmoil following the Olympic fiasco. The Seleção played like they should, and the score could have been higher if Ronaldinho hasn...
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Saturday 06 September 2008, 08:00
Dunga’s Seleção can make history this Sunday in their World Cup qualifier match against Chile. Too bad it'll be for all the wrong reasons. If Brazil don’t score against Chile, it will only be the second time that the Seleção, in its almost centennial...
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Friday 05 September 2008, 16:00
Is it just me or do you all think that Robinho isn’t getting enough media coverage lately? I’ll take the opportunity to fill this unbelievable blank by throwing some personal opinions on the career of the new Manchester City star – something I have been...
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Thursday 28 August 2008, 19:00
Here in South America we have our own version of the UEFA Cup. It’s called the Copa Sul-americana – or Sudamericana, in Spanish, Conmebol’s official language – and this year its seventh annual competition started exactly a month ago, with the clash between...
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Thursday 21 August 2008, 17:00
Before Tuesday’s game against Argentina, I insisted that the Olympic semi-final was a win-win situation for us Brazilians. If we beat our arch-rivals from the south, fantastic. The unbeaten run against them would go on – and it’s been a while since Brazil...
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Friday 15 August 2008, 01:25
The Brazilian Championship reached its midway point in the season this week, with Grêmio clinching the symbolic 'winter' title. But, as most of the coaches have said, the 'real' championship only begins after August 31, once the transfer...
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Thursday 07 August 2008, 11:00
That’s life (that’s life), that’s what all the people say You’re ridin’ high in April, shot down in May. Fast-forward two months to July in the lyrics of the 1966 classic “That’s Life”, immortalized by Frank Sinatra, and you’ll have almost have Flamengo...
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Friday 25 July 2008, 11:58
After the clash against Palmeiras, São Paulo defender André Dias hit out against opponent Kléber, back in Brazil after three years playing for Dinamo Kiev. “The guy is in the wrong sport. I guess he should be a boxer. He isn’t playing football at all...
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