Gil Braga

Brazilian boss Mano Menezes called up his second group of players this Friday morning in Rio de Janeiro. More new names such as youngster Phillipe Coutinho, who’s gets his first opportunity as a senior player, and Hulk, the Porto striker …

Email

In 1953 Garrincha was a 19 year-old man who signed for Rio’s top club of Botafogo FR. In his first training session Garrincha put the ball between the legs of experience national team defender Nilton Santos. Mané Garrincha soon became …

Email

As many of you might already know Mano Menezes is Brazil’s new manager. Menezes may not be an internationally known coach such as Luis Felipe Scolari or Carlos Alberto Parreira or even Wanderley Luxemburgo. He was actually not even CBF’s …

Email

Now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is history (by the way congratulations to Spain for getting a spot among our select club of world champions) we can go back to our local leagues, transfer rumors and criminal athletes. I’m itching …

Email

After an amazing group stage performance for the South American nations participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Chile Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina failed to deliver in the final stages of the competition. That left Uruguay as the last one …

Email

Kaká, Robinho and Luis Fabiano; Godín, Forlán and Suarez; Messi, Tevez and Higuain. I would walk into a dark room and randomly pick any of these players for my team on any given day. They are arguably the main reasons …

Email

I’ve been saying for quite some time that the 2010 FIFA World Cup will end in South America. Football is one of the hardest sports to predict and I’ve been wrong so many times so don’t go around putting all …

Email

Before we get to talk about  Brazil’s debut  against North Korea let’s have a quick review on what I saw these past few days from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in their first matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Let’s …

Email

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is right around the corner and for those who like to base their predictions on tradition the title should be coming to South America. Europeans teams never won a World Cup played outside their continent …

Email