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After almost three years, the Selecao will once again return to play the beautiful game on Qatari soil, since their 1-0 win over England in the Khalifa stadium, Doha. This time, Brazil will come up against the 2010 African Cup of Nations champions, Egypt. The two sides previous meeting was in 2009, at the Confederations […]
Luis Fabiano inspired Sao Paulo to a 2-0 victory against relegation strugglers, Avai on Saturday night, scoring both goals. However, the impressive performance from the former Sevilla striker was capped off with a suspension after he received his third yellow card. The consequences for Fabiano is that he will now miss Sao Paulo’s trip to […]
In fifteen games in the first-team, the midfield star has no goal, or assist, to his name. Dropped from the first-team and struggling to adapt to Brazilian football, Ibson’s future at the club is not looking bright. Ibson broke the 12-year-old transfer record of Dodô from São Paulo in 1999, but is yet to have […]
O Estadão de São Paulo reports that the club hope that Robinho will return to help mark the centenary year, which will now definitely feature Neymar after his new contract signing last week. “It would be a dream to have him [Robinho] back in the centenary year and we are doing our best to make […]
The details within the reports show that Neymar is considered to have “surpassed all the filters required by the club” and to be “compatible” of playing with Messi. Tellingly, Barcelona have done their research on the personal background of the player and believe that with the player’s strong family background, Neymar “is a perfect player […]
With just five games remaining in the league and Fluminense’s title rivals not playing until Sunday evening, the 2010 Brasileirao champions had a golden opportunity to go to sleep on Saturday as league leaders. Despite such an opportunity, it was the side from Minas Gerais looking like the side in contention for the league title […]
Ahead of Brazil’s showdown against Egypt in Doha on Monday, Zico spoke of the possibility to have a friendly against Iraq in Baghdad. ”There is a possibility” the Flamengo legend said. ”I met with Iraq’s minister of foreign affairs, and I found out that he spoke with Ricardo Teixeira (CBF president). This match would be […]
Mano Menezes opted to start the former Fluminense defender from the bench in Brazil’s 2-0 victory over Gabon on Thursday. Silva did however make a brief appearance, replacing Elias in the closing stages of the game. Talking at a press conference, ahead of Monday’s test against Egypt, the twenty six year old sent out a […]
Oscar has a buy-out clause in his contract of €30 million, but the Catalan club would hope to reduce the fee if any deal was to take place. The young talent starred at the Under-20 World Cup, scoring a hat-trick for Brazil in the final, as the junior Seleção secured victory.
Dedé scored twice and assisted one, from defence, as Vasco marched on to the Semi-Final with an easy win over Universitario. The 23-year-old defender has been the league’s most consistent defender this season and has drawn admiring glances from across Europe, with Juventus leading the charge.
“Everything is going to be redesigned,” said Felipão. “Of those who will play at (Championship) Paulista, there will be changes to 30% of the squad.” Midfielders Wagner, Jorge Wagner and striker Diego Tardelli have been linked to the Palestra Italia, but the coach would not comment on recruitment policy. “About my list, the only ones […]
Santos will now evaluate the proposals and receive Umbro’s new offer, with the existing supplier having first option on the new deal.
Reports from LANCENET claim that Corinthians made an offer to Palmeiras for striker Kleber, that was with in the region of around €3.3 million and was rejected. However the Brazilian daily newspaper claim that the offer made from Corinthians doesn’t please Palmeiras. Although the values of the offers made by Corinthians and Gremio are similar, […]
Thiago Neves has been one of Flamengo’s key players this season, scoring some crucial goals to keep the Rubro Negro side in the title race. The twenty six year old midfielder is currently on loan to Flamengo from Al Hilal untill December 31st. However. the Saudi Arbaian club gave Flamengo untill the 30th November to […]
Since signing for the Paulista club in March, Adriano has only played forty two minutes of football for Corinthians this season, due to under going a operation on his on his achillies and struggling to regain his fitness. When Tite was asked about whether Adriano will be play a part in in Sundays game against […]
After the 2-0 victory over Gabon in Libreville on Thursday, Brazil landed in Qatar in the early hours of Friday morning at Doha’s international airport. The five time world champions will begin their preparations to take on the 2010 African Cup of Nation champions, Egypt on Monday (17:00 GMT). Brazil’s last encounter against Egypt was […]
The ex-Flamengo striker is the league’s top scorer, yet remains a relative unknown in the rest of the footballing world. “I am very happy with this opportunity that is emerging here to maybe replace Shevchenko,” said the 11-time scorer so far this campaign. “It is a great responsibility. The newspapers are already talking about that a […]
Vagner Love, 27, hopes to return to Brazil next season, having been in Russia since 2004 – winning eleven honours including a UEFA Cup and three league titles. “There was only an enquiry from Grêmio,” revealed the player’s agent, Evandro Ferreira. “There has been no proposal for Love, who was glad to hear of Grêmio’s […]
Gol de Letra Association was founded in 1998 and 13 years after its inception, what have you acheived? We created two major education, sports and culture centres, one in Sao Paulo and the second in Rio. We had very good results with more than 5,000 children who have passed through these structures and the educational model […]
“The biggest difficulty today was the pitch,” said Bruno Cesar, following his first appearance with the team. “You can see how difficult it was to play because of the condition of the pitch. My debut was fine, there were no difficulties. We did well and won, that’s important.” The Benfica man was not the only […]
Despite the striker flying to Porto Alegre to try and agree a deal with Gremio, Palmeiras’ fierce rivals Corinthians still believe the striker would prefer to sign for them. According to the Timao’s deputy director of football, Duilio Monteiro Alves, Kleber’s agent, Giuseppe Dioguardi had told him he’d like to play for Corinthians. ‘’We haven’t yet […]
First half goals from Tottenham’s Sandro and Lazio’s Hernanes, was enough to give Brazil the victory in Libreville. The Selecao head coach felt the match served it’s purpose and liked what he saw from his side. Despite not calling up several of his first team regulars, Menezes handed out debut’s to Diego Alves, Bruno Cesar, […]
In October last year, the Libertadores champions offered the twenty two year old a new improved contract that would see the midfielders earnings increase through sponsorship deals. In an interview with Radio Bandeirantes, Luis Alvardo said, ”unfortunately, their (Ganso’s) attorneys closed the door on the deal. This was unfortunate because Paul Henrique lost out on […]
This was a game that would probably not live long in the memory, but never the less with a several key players missing, coach Mano Menezes side still eased to victory. Just as the two sides were about to kick the game off, the stadium experienced a flood light failure. It’d taken just over twenty […]
