Articles tagged with "flamengo"
Football's New Weapon: The Ball Boy
By chris | March 7th, 2008The Copa Libertadores are a big deal, and so aren't red cards in the Copa Libertadores. With 43 minutes played in the Libertadores matchup between ...
Half of the Championship is Over in Rio
By Bruno Romani | February 24th, 2008Maracanã with 80 thousand chanting fans. You know what that means. It was the match that was going to define the champion of the first-half ...
Weekend Watch: Not What Was Intended
By chris | February 18th, 2008In short, it was a very, very good weekend to be the home team, and a very, very bad weekend to be Arsenal. ManYoo 4 - ...
Weekend Watch: Derbies Abound
By chris | February 15th, 2008If you were good enough on Valentine's Day, you may just be allowed to sit on the couch and watch footy all weekend. Well, it's ...
4 Clubs and 2 Derbies: A Preview of Copa Libertadores in the States Leagues
By Bruno Romani | February 10th, 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 ...
News Roundup As We All Drink to Adriano
By Martha | January 18th, 2008•Four of the players on UEFA.com's fan-chosen Team of the Year squad ply their trade in Italy, including three Rossoneri. Kaka, Alessandro Nesta and Clarence ...
Giant News Roundup As Global Warming Really Kicks In
By Martha | January 8th, 2008•Holy crap, Alberto Aquilani made it through a match! Quick, wrap him and cotton wool and put him away until the weekend. •As Jeremy reported this ...
How to Buy a Ronaldo
By Martha | January 3rd, 2008The day after Christmas, Flamengo president Kleber Leite proudly told the media that AC Milan had given him permission to open negotiations with Ronaldo, who ...
Brazilians Actually Going to Training (But For How Long?)
By Martha | January 2nd, 2008By some miracle, Ronaldinho actually made it back from Brazil in time for Barcelona's first post-break training session (look out for flying pigs), and Ronaldo ...
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 ...
Good, Bad and Ugly for Inter
By Martha | November 19th, 2007The international weekend was a busy one for Inter, despite very little actually happening in Milan. Most of the action took place in South America ...
São Paulo 99% Champion; Corinthians Gets Some Hope
By Bruno Romani | October 29th, 2007Five matches to go. Fifteen points ahead of the second team. São Paulo is 99% the champion. This weekend the club who conceived 13 goals ...
1 man, 3 matches
By Bruno Romani | September 12th, 2007Three matches to follow in my return to the blog. 1)In China, the Brazilian girls played a bad first-half against New Zeland, but conducted by Marta, ...
Flamengo Leaves the relegation Zone
By Bruno Romani | August 26th, 2007It took 13 rounds, but Flamengo finally will sleep outside the relegation zone. The Maracanã received 50 thousand fans that painted the stadium red and ...
São Paulo to face Boca Juniors/ Messi's Cousin scores again
By Bruno Romani | August 24th, 2007Copa Sulamericana will have its first big clash in the round of 16. São Paulo and Figueirense tied 1-1 at the Morumbi on Thursday, and ...
Flamengo Introduces Messi's Cousin to the World
By Bruno Romani | August 17th, 2007There is a reason a Fla-Flu is a mythical derby. There is magic on the air when both clubs collide. Last night, at Maracanã the ...
Botafogo Loses the Head, the Match and the First Place; São Paulo Leader
By Bruno Romani | August 9th, 2007At Maracanã, Botafogo and São Paulo played the most awaited match of this season so far. The difference between the two sides was only 2 ...
Money & Transfers
By AJ | August 8th, 2007Money & transfers, like peanut butter & jelly, it seems like these two were made for each other. So without further undo let's talk about ...
Best Own Goal Ever
By Daryl | August 4th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHhO8bp0Qno[/youtube] I always thought it was just a myth that Brazilians do everything with an extra bit of flair, pedaled to us by the swoosh people ...
A Bicycle-Kick Own Goal is Possible
By Bruno Romani | August 3rd, 2007When you think you’ve seen enough oddities in the football world, Brazilian football shows up to remind up that everything is possible. Even a bicycle-kick ...
São Paulo Saves its Ass, Grêmio Doesn't, CBF Saves Flamengo's
By Bruno Romani | August 3rd, 2007Two matches closed the 16th round of the Brasileiro this Thursday. And they both offer a look of what the tournament may be. At the ...
Cruzeiro too much for Botafogo
By AJ | July 30th, 200710-men Cruzeiro proved to much for Botafogo, as the fox but out the fire. It wasn't the greatest of games for Cruzeiro (up 3-0, then ...
Flamengo and Corinthians say Hello to Relegation
By Bruno Romani | July 23rd, 2007The Campeonato Brasileiro gets more equilibrated after each round. Botafogo didn’t win again, and now at least 11 clubs fight for the top 3 spots. ...
Just Two Brazilian Survivors in the Libertadores
By Bruno Romani | May 11th, 2007Ok. So now this blog has really embraced its South American heritage and works with less efficiency, more laziness and huge bureaucracy. Watch out. The ...
A Name to Remember: Renato Augusto
By Bob | May 9th, 2007Is the world ready for another Brazilian attacking midfielder? Predicting future success is never a science but by all accounts 19-year-old Renato Soares de ...
Sunday of Champions All Over Brazil
By Bruno Romani | May 7th, 2007Santos overcame all the hardships that landed on the club in the last weeks and won its 17th Paulista League, the second in a row. ...
Tradition Doesn't Hold True in the Copa Libertadores this Wednesday
By Bruno Romani | May 3rd, 2007Tons of Brazilian tradition and history in the Copa Libertadores were in action tonight for the tournament’s round of 16. Together, São Paulo (92,93,05), Santos ...
Libertadores effect freezes State League Finalists
By Bruno Romani | April 29th, 2007Renato imitates a vulture The four clubs qualified to the knock-out stage of the Copa Libertadores and runners-up in their states did not win this Sunday. Santos, ...
Summary of Wednesday in the Copa Libertadores
By Bruno Romani | April 19th, 2007Oh Copa Libertadores! The best tournament in the world.This Wednesday, 3 Brazilian clubs played matches and defined their ticket to the knock-out stage. São Paulo went ...
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