Articles tagged with "tournaments"
Brazilian Stadiums Set for a Makeover by 2014 (+pics)
By Bruno Romani | September 1st, 2007By AJ from Cruzeiro's blog Bruno is away for the week and I'll be holding down the fort until he gets back. I was looking around ...
São Paulo Wins and Stares at the Title
By Bruno Romani | August 29th, 2007Rogerio Ceni leaves the goal and dribles Edmundo What a night for São Paulo. The leaders of the league played a thrilling derby with Palmeiras, the ...
U-17: The Sound of Failure Strikes Again
By Bruno Romani | August 29th, 2007The lack of respect, commitment, focus and passion by Brazilian players when it comes to the national team has affected the young talents too. After ...
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 ...
Corinthians' Coach Fired After Loss to Cruzeiro
By Bruno Romani | August 26th, 2007Carpegiani: Last Goodbye Cruzeiro massacred Corinthians at the Pacaembu. Not only the blue team confirmed its good moment with the sixth straight victory, but also it ...
Referees Help Clubs from Porto Alegre
By Bruno Romani | August 26th, 2007Referees took the Saturday to help the big sides from Porto Alegre. In Rio, Fluminense had the lead and played better than Grêmio. With 14 ...
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 ...
More Boredom: Copa Sulamericana in its Early Stages
By Bruno Romani | August 23rd, 2007More action for Copa Sulamericana (yes, the name is in portuguese. Don't preach me on how to say it...) this Wednesday. But I didn't spend ...
Botafogo's Fall (And It Can Get Worse)
By Bruno Romani | August 19th, 2007The second half of the Campeonato Brasileiro started today. After it lost to São Paulo, Botafogo started to go down the hill. Another two teams passed ...
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 ...
And Copa Sulamericana began...
By Bruno Romani | August 16th, 2007Despite the high money Copa Sulamericana pays for its champions, Brazilians clubs never cared enough for that competition. The lack of tradition leads many fans ...
Happy Sunday for Cruzeiro
By Bruno Romani | August 12th, 2007São Paulo was just 2 minutes away of a perfect weekend. But Alecssandro with a header added a new color to the 19th round of ...
São Paulo is the "Winter Champions"
By Bruno Romani | August 12th, 2007As it expected, São Paulo did not have a hard time this Saturday at the Morumbi to beat Atlético-PR and pocket the symbolic title of ...
Inter Fires Coach and Corinthians is back to the relegation zone
By Bruno Romani | August 10th, 2007Abel Braga is back to Inter. Just 4 months after leaving the club, the coach was hired to replace Alexandre Gallo, who took the job ...
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 ...
São Paulo Reaches the Top
By Bruno Romani | August 6th, 2007It took a few weeks, but the Brasileirão has a new leader. São Paulo visited Grêmio in Porto Alegre, revisiting the clash of this year’s ...
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 ...
Palmeiras is the Robin Hood and Luxemburgo Killed Leão
By Bruno Romani | August 2nd, 2007They don’t like each. And both love personal-marketing. Considered two of the top coaches in Brazil, Leão and Luxemburgo met last night at the Mineirão ...
Trio Benefits from the Weekend
By Bruno Romani | July 30th, 2007Only 3 teams benefited from the weekend round of the Brasileiro. And everything I say in one round happens exactly in the opposite way in the next. ...
They did it again...
By Bruno Romani | July 27th, 2007As usual, one post to save time about the two days of the 14th round of the Brasileirão. The round had many incredible moments. Alexandro Pato ...
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. ...
Football on Sad Wednesday
By Bruno Romani | July 19th, 2007The day after the worst plane crash in Brazilian history, it was hard to think about football. It was hard for three clubs to remember ...
Nobody Bothers Botafogo
By Bruno Romani | July 16th, 2007So you thought I wasn’t gonna report on the 11th round of the Brasileiro? Got it wrong. The effort all the clubs are doing to not ...
Don't Cry and Chupa, Argentina! (Again)
By Bruno Romani | July 15th, 2007More Details on the Crushing of los Hermanos Soon! Chupa Argentina! Update One more time Argentina had the top-stars. One more time Brazil had a B team. And ...
One Shot Away
By Bruno Romani | July 11th, 2007We were one shot away from elimination. We were one shot away after Afonso and Fernando, who are Dunga’s inventions, missed their penalties. But still, we ...
10 Things about the 10th Round of the Brasileirão
By Bruno Romani | July 8th, 20071 – Bad scheduling. Before the beginning of Copa America, CBF and TV Globo rescheduled all the matches to Saturday so that the national team ...
Chile, a friendly nation!
By Bruno Romani | July 7th, 2007Easy there. There’s no reason to be overly optimistic. The final score of 6-1 is to be respected, but Chile wasn’t a real adversary. After ...
Boring Report for a Boring Squad
By Bruno Romani | July 5th, 2007Dunga loves defense and last night, he paid tribute to the position that made his fame. Against the eliminated squad of Ecuador, the coach chose ...
I Didn't Watch
By Bruno Romani | July 3rd, 2007-I didn’t watch Brazil doing everything to get kicked out in the group stage of the U-20 WC. -I didn’t watch Pato scoring twice in the ...
Robinho Looses the Rope
By Bruno Romani | July 1st, 2007In Game 2 in the countdown for the departure of Dunga, Robinho decided to loose the rope around the neck of his boss. By the ...
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