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April 30th, 2007

Two Incredible Mistakes by Two Brazilian Goalies

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

April 26th was Goalie’s Day. This Sunday two Brazilian keepers showed how difficult their profession is with phenomenal mistakes.
In the first-leg of Minas Gerais State League, Atlético-MG crushed Cruzeiro in the big derby by a 4-0 score. In the 4th goal, scored by Wanderley, Fábio, Cruzeiro’s keeper, was still recovering from the third goal, scored […]

Category Category: Players


April 29th, 2007

Libertadores effect freezes State League Finalists

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

                                 Renato imitates a vulture
The four clubs qualified to the knock-out stage of the Copa Libertadores and runners-up in their states did not win this Sunday.
Santos, the best campaign in the first part of the Paulista Championship, lost against the blue surprise, São Caetano, by 2-0. The team headed by Wanderley Luxemburgo has not scored yet […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 27th, 2007

Corinthians and its Half(full)Ass Season

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

Corinthians played at the Pacaembu last night the second leg of the round of 16 for the Copa do Brasil against Naútico, and manage to get eliminated. With goals by Vagner Rosa and Acosta the timbú eliminated Corinthians in the first game of new coach Paulo César Carpegiani. The fans got furious, some invaded the […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 25th, 2007

São Paulo X Grêmio: Brazilian Clash in the Copa Libertadores

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

The stage group of the Copa Libertadores is almost finished and one of the big games of the next round is Brazilian. São Paulo will take on Grêmio next week at the Morumbi.
The tricolor had another poor performance tonight playing in front of its fans, and managed only to get a draw (2-2) against Audax […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 25th, 2007

Forward Retires to Serve as a Congressman

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

                     
                           Before                                                After
The forward Róbson, aka RobGol, announced this Sundays his getting retired. Robgol is one of the biggest idols of the history of Paysandu, that club once visited Boca Juniors for the Copa Libertadores and surprisingly won the game. Robgol decided to stop after Paysandy got eliminated in Pará’s state league, and ended the […]

Category Category: Players, Folklore


April 22nd, 2007

Defender Kisses Ref. and Gets Yellow Carded

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 1 Comment

Botafogo advanced to the finals of the Campeonato Carioca with a 3-1 victory over Cabofriense. It took only 25 minutes to score the goals that granted Botafogo the spot in the decision against Flamengo.
The main highlight of the night, however, happened between Cabofriense’s defender Cléberson and the referee Ubiraci Damásio. In the beginning of the […]

Category Category: Folklore
April 21st, 2007

São Paulo humiliated; São Caetano is in the final!

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

 
São Paulo did not justify its favoritism against São Caetano tonight at the Morumbi. São Caetano visited the tricolor and showed that last year’s relegation in the Campeonato Brasileiro was an accident, winning the game by 4-1.
São Paulo started the game better, taking all the action and having more ball possession. Ilsinho scored a beautiful […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 19th, 2007

Failure is Red: Inter is out of the Libertadores!

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

Internacional won’t make it twice. The club that waited 97 years to make it big on the international stage is out of the Copa Libertadores. The club failed to advance to the knock-out stage, despite the victory over Nacional de Montevideo by the score of 1-0 tonight. Inter had to score 3 goals against the […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 19th, 2007

Summary of Wednesday in the Copa Libertadores

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

Oh Copa Libertadores! The best tournament in the world.This Wednesday, 3 Brazilian clubs played matches and defined their ticket to the knock-out stage.
São Paulo went to Peru, and faced Alianza Lima. The tricolor saved some of its usual starters for Saturday’s semifinal of the Paulista league, but had no difficulty beating the home team by […]

Category Category: Clubs
April 17th, 2007

Forward Eats Grass and Sells Shirts

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

                                 
                                           Vegetarian?
Guarani, club from Campinas-SP that revealed talents such as Careca, Amoroso, Luizão and many others, found a new way to pocket some money. The Bugre started selling a shirt with the picture and autograph of forward Lê. Up to this point, it sounds okThe picure, however, shows Lê in a moment of ecstasy  after […]

Category Category: Folklore, Clubs





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