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April 4th, 2008

First Anniversary of Brazil at the Offside!

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 6 Comments

Thank you so much for the support. A year ago, i wrote Bob bitching about the lack of material on Brazilian football. He replied back asking me if I could take the position. Luckly for him, I’m a journalist. And i was unemployed. At the time, I had an average of 1 thousand visitors monthly. […]

Category Category: CBF
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March 31st, 2008

Excuses

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 3 Comments

Sorry guys, but this week I’ll have to be away from the blog.
I’ll comeback next weekend with the last round of the group stage of the Paulista Championship. See you There!

Category Category: CBF
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February 7th, 2008

Brazil 1 x 0 Ireland: Not Bad

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 2 Comments

 
It wasn’t a great game. But it wasn’t bad either. Nowadays, breath taking performances are reserved only to when the other team is Argentina and the match is a final one. In times of “there’s no innocent in the sport,” Brazil put out a good performance considering it was the first match of the year. […]

Category Category: National Team, CBF
November 26th, 2007

Stadium Collapses: 7 Killed and Over 70 Injured

By: Bruno Romani | Comments No Comments

Bahia, traditional club in Brazil, played for série C, the third division of the Campeonato Brasileiro. With the 0-0 draw against Vila Nova from Goiás, the 60 thousand fans went crazy. But what was supposed to be a huge party became the worst tragedy in the history of Brazilian football. Part of the stadium collapsed, […]

Category Category: Clubs, CBF
October 30th, 2007

2014 WC Will be Brazil!!!

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 1 Comment

Watch Out for overpricing. But it will be fun.

Category Category: Tournaments, CBF


September 30th, 2007

Brazil 0 - 2 Germany

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 11 Comments

It’s sad. But that’s how real champs are formed. Brazil faced Germany today in the final of the women’s World Cup and lost, 2-0. Unlike Germany, this is a team that in the last four years played less than 5 officials games. They lacked experience despite the magic within.

Brazil played better the first-half, and […]

September 12th, 2007

1 man, 3 matches

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 1 Comment

Three matches to follow in my return to the blog.
1)In China, the Brazilian girls played a bad first-half against New Zeland, but conducted by Marta, the second-half was turned another massacre of this team. 5-0 and a decent debut the national team in the World Cup.

2) The male’s team played in Boston another friendly, this […]

Category Category: CBF
September 1st, 2007

Brazilian Stadiums Set for a Makeover by 2014 (+pics)

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 7 Comments

By AJ from Cruzeiro’s blog
Bruno is away for the week and I’ll be holding down the fort until he gets back. I was looking around and found the perfect thing to write about - the 2014 World Cup. FIFA should make its decision later this year, with Brazil being the sole candidate. FIFA inspectors traveled […]

Category Category: Tournaments, CBF
August 3rd, 2007

São Paulo Saves its Ass, Grêmio Doesn’t, CBF Saves Flamengo’s

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 4 Comments

Two matches closed the 16th round of the Brasileiro this Thursday. And they both offer a look of what the tournament may be. At the Morumbi, São Paulo started very slow again, and allowed Juventude to score first with only 2 minutes into the match. Having problems to create chances, São Paulo tied just 30 […]

Category Category: Tournaments, Clubs, CBF
August 1st, 2007

“They were Drunk…”

By: Bruno Romani | Comments 1 Comment

Everybody knows that. But now Ricardo Teixeira, the president of CBF, confirmed the state of the Brazilian squad in the 06 World Cup. The newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported that Teixeira declared in Switzerland, “There were players arriving drunk at the hotel at 4, 6 am.”
Teixeira criticized the preparation of the squad, suggesting […]

Category Category: National Team, CBF





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