Articles tagged with "adriano"
Wanted: Brazil Blogger
By Daryl | May 16th, 2008World Cup 2010 qualifying resumes in South America next month, and we need someone to captain our Brazilian national team blog. If you follow the Seleção, and have plenty to say about it, then we want to hear from you. It's not a paid positio ...
Adriano is Back to the National Team!
By Bruno Romani | May 15th, 2008Dunga announced the squad for the two friendlies in the US at the end of the month and beginning of June, and the two matches for the World Cup Qualifying. The biggest name of the day? Adriano. Him and Kleber from Santos will play only the World Cup ...
Adriano Plays His Best Match in Brazil and Carries SP in the Copa Libertadores
By Bruno Romani | May 15th, 2008Whenever Brazilian clubs clash in Copa Libertadores, it seems that time stops to watch them. The fans of São Paulo and Fluminense were paralyzed with the match that took place at Morumbi last night. The home team is more experienced in the continent ...
Adriano Uses His Hand to Put São Paulo Closer to the Final
By Bruno Romani | April 13th, 2008The first-leg of the semi-finals of the Paulista Championship had the touch of the Emperor. Adriano helped São Paulo to beat favorite Palmeiras 2-1 scoring twice. His second goal was a typical “Adriano run over” with a powerful shot. Nothi ...
Semi-Finals in São Paulo Are Ready. Corinthians is Out!
By Bruno Romani | April 6th, 2008For another year, the Paulista Championship will have a small club in the finals, proving once again how difficult this tournament is. The semi-finals will be Guaratinguetá x Ponte Preta and Palmeiras x São Paulo. The last round of the group ...
São Paulo's Borge Shines the Emperor's Boots
By Daryl | March 29th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSOfc6M-PGo[/youtube] Adriano's loan move to São Paulo didn't start too well, what with the drinking and the headbutting. But The Emperor got his act together in the Paulista championship against Sertaozinh ...
Guara and Palmeiras Still on the Top. Sao Paulo Moves to 4th.
By Bruno Romani | March 28th, 2008The Paulista championship delivered another round to raise more question marks about who are going to be the 4 teams qualified to the semi-finals. On Wednesday, everything seemed ready for a draw between Palmeiras and Portuguesa in a match which t ...
Tuesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | March 25th, 2008This is probably the only time I will say this in my 25 years of life, cheers to Inter. Why would I say such crazy things? Sure I drank a few beers with dinner but that’s not the reason, the real reason is that Inter have done Ol’Sil and Fester ...
Inter Info: 3/14/08 "Vaca, Again"
By robert | March 14th, 2008What's up my dawgs? Yes, the rumors are true. You're beloved Nerazzurri news dude/pre-match dude/post match dude/overall dude will be going away tomorrow. Relax, relax, not forever, just until next Sunday. So that means you guys are going to be on yo ...
Inter Info: 3/13/08
By robert | March 13th, 2008What's up my dawgs? Will he go or will he stay? That's the question on the mind of Nerazzurri fans, and all fans of the worlds game. After the Liverpool game, the answer was no. Then yesterday, after meeting with Moratti, he had a change of heart. And is
Let The Nail Biting Commence
By robert | March 10th, 2008Champions League (Leg 2), Round of 16 Who: Inter(0)- Liverpool(2) When: Tuesday, March 11th 15:45 ET Where: Stadio Giuseppe Meazza Why do I have a naked mole rat as my picture for the preview of this match? Well, it's quite simple actually. After t
100 Anni, 100 Emozioni
By robert | March 9th, 2008I was thinking about writing 100 emotions here, but I'm too lazy. I love this team, no matter what happens. All those bitches that keep crying every time Inter wins, FUCK OFF. Just learn to stare at our beautiful asses, and great legs. But I'm not her
Confidence Booster
By robert | March 8th, 2008Inter(2)-Reggina(0) Inter got back on the winning side of things today, with a confident 2-0 over Reggina. I know, I know, it's Reggina. But the way that things have been going lately, we needed this. We really did. Our form seemed circa a few months
Inter Milan: 3/6/08 "Creative Exercise"
By robert | March 6th, 2008What's up my dawgs? Inter fans take a lot of shit on this site for having too many Argentine players, and the nickname AgrenInter has been given to us. It was funny the 1st and 37th time, but it's getting a little old. So, I'm giving everyone the opportun
Adriano Wakes Up and Saves São Paulo in the Copa Libertadores
By Bruno Romani | March 6th, 2008It was the night of Emperor. After all the polemics of last week which resulted in a fee equals to 40% of his salary and a private war against the press, Adriano finally did what he was hired for. He saved São Paulo in a match of Copa Libertadores.
Neapolitan Nuisance
By robert | March 1st, 2008Serie A, Round 26 Who: Inter Milan vs. Napoli When: Sunday, March 2nd 2:30 pm ET Where: Stadio San Paolo It has been a very tough three game stretch for the Nerazzurri, after strolling through the large portion of the season before this lineup of g
Inter Info: 2/29/08
By robert | February 29th, 2008What's up my dawgs? I got some bad news for you guys. Seems like the game this weekend will not be on T.V., again. Against Sampdoria, we had the same problem, so I had to watch it on bet365.com. It was okay, but not like my nice big T.V. I checked FSC and
When Adriano Turns into Zidane
By Bruno Romani | February 12th, 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K19eWPERbI This may result in a suspension of 120 to 540 days. If that happens, he will be able to play only Copa Libertadores for Sao Paulo.
4 Clubs and 2 Derbies: A Preview of Copa Libertadores in the States Leagues
By Bruno Romani | February 11th, 2008A month later, the season in Brazil seems to be taking off. Both the Paulista and Carioca Championships had great derbies on the weekend, involving 4 of the 5 Brazilian clubs in this year’s Copa Libertadores. In São Paulo, the match was São P
Finally: Adriano Scores at Home
By Bruno Romani | January 31st, 2008After last Sunday’s referee found a foul in his header, Adriano scored at Morumbi a goal that resembled a lot the one from the weekend. But this time the referee allowed it, and São Paulo beat Rio Claro 3-1. It was the first goal of Adriano at Mo
A Big Day for the Big Man
By Martha | January 18th, 2008Yeah, you could say Adriano's first match for Sao Paolo went pretty well: He scored both his team's goals in a 2-1 win over Guaratingueta, and generally made a nuisance of himself all over the pitch -- in a good way, for once. Granted, one productive
Adriano Scores Twice in his Return
By Bruno Romani | January 18th, 2008The Paulista Championship started tonight for the big clubs from São Paulo. The man of the night was Adriano, who debuted for São Paulo in his return to Brazilian football. The Brazilian champs visited Guaratinguetá and had a hard time to develop its
Ronaldo to Flamengo?
By Martha | December 26th, 2007I'm not actually back yet, but since it's starting to look like an exodus of lumpy Brazilians is sweeping Milan, I figured I should make some time for a post. Just a few days after Inter and Sao Paolo agreed a loan deal for Adriano, the international pres
Adriano is Back... to Drinking!
By Bruno Romani | December 24th, 2007Adriano was introduced to the Brazilian press as a Sao Paulo player on Friday. He swore his life had changed and that old habits belonged to the past. On the same day, he was seen in a party with Edmundo, who had just got fired from Palmeiras. On Saturd
Odds n Ends (Mostly Results) on a Coppa Wednesday
By Martha | December 19th, 2007Note: I'm traveling tomorrow. Will be back on task ASAP. •For all intents and purposes, it's all set for Adriano to stay in São Paulo on a six-month loan. Thank Christ. •Speaking of Adriano, Brazilian home-away-from-home Fenerbahce, once rumore
Random Parma Video 6- Adriano, The Wasted Brazilian Talent
By Francesco | December 18th, 2007When you see this video you'll see just how much of a wasted talent Adriano is. At Parma, this guy was awesome. Such power and strength, and a left foot that could break a brick wall. He really could've been one of the greatest, if not THE greatest st
Your Regular Brazilian Milanese Update: Today, Pato and Adriano
By Martha | December 17th, 2007I just wrote this up for the front page, but it clearly needs to be discuss here, as well: Silvio Berlusoni claims Carlo Ancelotti told him that, if he keeps the form he's been showing in training, Pato will "get 30 goals by June." I mean ... what?! D
News Roundup as He-Man Rages at the Foreigners
By Martha | December 11th, 2007•Bayern Munich's resident crotchety old man, Oliver Kahn, recently gave an interview in which he ripped the team's unnamed new arrivals, saying they need to "learn that two or three good games aren’t enough" and, oh yeah, learn to speak freaking Germa
Poor, Poor, Adriano
By Martha | December 10th, 2007Ok, it's official: I feel sorry for him now. Even while he's busy over in Brazil, trying to sort himself out, the memories of how much Adriano sucks lately have lived on loud and clear in Italy. You know what's coming, right? For the second year in a row,
Odds and Ends as We Wonder How Adriano is Getting Along
By Martha | December 7th, 2007•Man City are in the picture for Adriano again. Well, maybe anyway -- this time the interest is official, with no less an authority that Thaksin Shinawatra putting his name forward. •More on the Davide Marchini saga: His agent/mouthpiece Lorenzo Ma
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