Chris Mann
I'm a 20 year-old student from England with a bit of a football obsession looking to make my way as a freelance journalist and writer. I'm a big Southampton and England fan and write a daily blog on the travails of following the Saints (http://www.oleole.com/blogs/saints-blog). Please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Can Johnson, Gomez and Zamora shine in the Premier League?
Each and every season throws up a number of players who seemingly come from nowhere or break the shackles of mediocrity to make a name for themselves with successions of top quality performances for their clubs. So, with that in mind, here’s a selection of players I think might just surprise a few people this…
The Greatest Brazilian Players of All Time – 90s & 00s
In this third and final part of my look at some of the finest players to have ever been produced by football’s most successful nation, I focus on players who reached their peak during the 1990s and 2000s. Brazilian successes in both the 1994 and 2002 World Cups have ensured that this era is rich…
The Greatest Brazilian Players of All Time – 70s & 80s
In part two of this series looking at the best Brazilian players of all time, I will be taking a look at the finest Brazilian talents of the 1970s and 80s. From the remarkable team of 1970 through to the abundantly gifted yet ultimately unsuccessful squads of the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, there are…
The Greatest Brazilian Players of All Time
In this series I will be looking at some of the greatest Brazilian players to have graced the game of football over the last sixty years, using the 1950s, the decade in which Brazil marched to their first World Cup triumph, as a starting point. In part one, I take a look at the finest…
The Evolution of Brazilian Football
Brazilian football, unlike any other cultural interpretation of a particular sport, has the ability to conjure up in one’s mind an essence of mystery, of carnival, of rhythm, of unadulterated joy and freedom. Futebol is so deeply, so passionately interwoven into the fabric of Brazilian culture that the two entities are inextricably linked, they define…
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