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June 30th, 2007

A Round Nobody Watched

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

Today the remaining games of the 8th round of the Brasileirao took place. Yes, a round that started on Thursday ended today, throwing important derbies to the worst time ever to play a match in Brazil, 18:10. Thank you CBF for caring about bringing people to stadiums! Next time, if you don’t want matches of […]



June 30th, 2007

U-20 WC: Brazil Disappointing…

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 8 Comments

 
The moment is not a good one to Brazilian football. The transition of generations is hard. Today the U-20 World Cup started, showing some of the players who will be in 2014. Like the adult team, it was disappointing.
Many similarities between today and the game against Mexico: a coach who doesn’t know what he is […]

June 29th, 2007

The 8th Week of the Brasileiro Has Started

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

The 8th round of the Brasileiro started this thursday. CBF decided to arrange the schedule around the match of the national squad, so 2 matches took place thursday night whereas the rest will happen on saturday.
 Sao Paulo visited Figueirense in Florianopolis surrounded by the rumors that one of its players may be gay. The target of the […]

Category Category: Tournaments, Clubs
June 27th, 2007

The Countdown for the Departure of Dunga Has Started!

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 20 Comments

There’s no way around it. In Brazil, football and the economy never do well at the same time. If they do happen, there’s no politics. So today I start a countdown to the departure of Dunga.
Game 1
Brazil debuted at the Copa America. Did I just say debuted? Dunga was on the bench for the first […]

Category Category: National Team, CBF
June 25th, 2007

CBF Did It Again: The Mishandling of Brazilian Football

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 1 Comment

 The mishandling of Brazilian football, specially the clubs, by CBF is notorious, but it seems every year they put effort into messing it up.
The unattractive Pan-American games in Rio have been scheduled for about 2 years. As everybody with a little knowledge about soccer in Brazil is aware of, Rio de Janeiro has only 1 stadium […]

Category Category: Tournaments, CBF


June 25th, 2007

Player from Big Paulista Club Wants to Come Out of The Closet on National TV

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

The online version of the newspaper  Folha de S. Paulo reports this Sunday that a player from one of the big 3 clubs from the city of Sao Paulo wants to come out of the closet on a famous TV show. The gay player is negotiating an exclusive interview to “Fantastico,” a popular journalistic show from TV Globo broadcast every […]

Category Category: Players, Folklore
June 25th, 2007

Round of the Visitors, Round of Great Derbies

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

The 7th round of the Brasileirão was the round of the visitors and 3 great derbies.Goiás, with coach Paulo Bonamigo, visited Naútico in Recife and won by 2-0. The green team had the two goals scored through Fabricio Carvalho, the striker who almost retired due to a heart related illness. Naútico, on the other hand, […]

Category Category: Tournaments, Clubs
June 20th, 2007

Boca Swallows Another Brazilian Club in a Libertadores Final

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

 
Boca has just won its 6th title of the Copa Libertadores, 4 against Brazilian teams (Cruzeiro-77, Palmeiras-01, Santos-03, Gremio-07).
Riquelme played a fine match, scored twice, and made history. The 2-0 made the Olimpico stadium a cemetery.
 Update:
Wednesday night, Boca Juniors took a trip to its favorite place when it wants to celebrate a Copa Libertadores title, […]

Category Category: Tournaments, Clubs
June 18th, 2007

Botafogo’s Keeper Makes Incredible Mistake

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

With 10 minutes into the second-half in the match between Botafogo and Naútico, the ex-São Paulo defender Alex decided to pass the ball to keeper Júlio César. Alex forgot he no longer plays with Rogério Ceni, and saw Júlio César concede probably the most bizarre goal in the season.
Watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zmruWpoeY
In good brazilian portuguese, goalies who concede […]

Category Category: Players, Folklore
June 18th, 2007

Santos and São Paulo Ressurect in the 6th Round of the Brasileirao

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

The sixth round of the Brasileirão watched two favorites finally to step in the tournament. São Paulo and Santos both won their matches by 2-0, and bringing winds of hope to their ever hungry fans. The similarities do not stop there: both clubs scored their goals in the first-half, both scored the first goal before […]






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