Brazil
Features news coverage of Brazil and its players, including match reports and general football news.
A signed shirt from Robin van Persie, Lionel Messi, Maradona or Paul Scholes?
In the past and the present, football players have enjoyed a special place in a football fan’s life.
Top Christmas Football Deals
The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…
Retro Football Kits
Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China – it was called Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju. In 1872, the first ever international…
Football Team of the Decade: 1960s
The 1960s just might be football’s golden decade. George Best, Garrincha, Pele in his prime and much much more.
Brazil v Ghana – All eyes on the Selecao
It is the nature of modern football that in any match involving Brazil, the spotlight rests solely on their ambitions for their next title. This time, as hosts of the next World Cup, they have only friendlies (and the Confederations Cup) to fine-tune their preparations in the next 3 years and as such, every friendly…
England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future
Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…
Ronaldo bids farewell to football – His legacy lives on!
In the mid-90s a striker from Brazil was making tremors throughout the world football as he scored 42 goals in 46 appearances with PSV Eindhoven. His journey continued from there to Barcelona to Inter Milan to Real Madrid and greatness pursued in all the four leagues he played in. On the international level, he served…
The Strange Death of Brazilian Flair
Ahead of tonight’s semi-final clash between Real Madrid and Barcelona, Real’s Brazilian left-back Marcelo has pointedly suggested that he prefers ‘to win and not play well’ over defeat. He sums up an increasing trend in Brazilian football away from the flair and ingenuity which made the golden shirt a symbol of The Beautiful Game’.
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
Pelé Sports – Style, Innovation and Quality
A sense of nostalgia sets in when thinking of Pelé, arguably the best footballer of all times, and the one that gave “Futebol bonito” to Brazil and to the rest of the world. Pelé’s memorable moments include the bicycle kick, winning three world cups for Brazil out of their total of five, and being one…
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