Articles tagged with "tournaments"
A Round Nobody Watched
By Bruno Romani | June 30th, 2007Today the remaining games of the 8th round of the Brasileirao took place. Yes, a round that started on Thursday ended today, throwing important derbies ...
U-20 WC: Brazil Disappointing...
By Bruno Romani | June 30th, 2007The moment is not a good one to Brazilian football. The transition of generations is hard. Today the U-20 World Cup started, showing some of ...
The 8th Week of the Brasileiro Has Started
By Bruno Romani | June 29th, 2007The 8th round of the Brasileiro started this thursday. CBF decided to arrange the schedule around the match of the national squad, so 2 matches took ...
CBF Did It Again: The Mishandling of Brazilian Football
By Bruno Romani | June 25th, 2007The mishandling of Brazilian football, specially the clubs, by CBF is notorious, but it seems every year they put effort into messing it up. The unattractive Pan-American ...
Round of the Visitors, Round of Great Derbies
By Bruno Romani | June 25th, 2007The 7th round of the Brasileirão was the round of the visitors and 3 great derbies.Goiás, with coach Paulo Bonamigo, visited Naútico in Recife and ...
Boca Swallows Another Brazilian Club in a Libertadores Final
By Bruno Romani | June 20th, 2007Boca has just won its 6th title of the Copa Libertadores, 4 against Brazilian teams (Cruzeiro-77, Palmeiras-01, Santos-03, Gremio-07). Riquelme played a fine match, scored twice, ...
Santos and São Paulo Ressurect in the 6th Round of the Brasileirao
By Bruno Romani | June 18th, 2007The sixth round of the Brasileirão watched two favorites finally to step in the tournament. São Paulo and Santos both won their matches by 2-0, ...
Generic Versions of Santos and São Paulo Bring Rivalry to the Second Division in the Jungle
By Bruno Romani | June 15th, 2007Amapa, in perspective. Fans and journalists expected 2007 to be another year which Santos and São Paulo would play all finals and win all titles available. ...
Botafogo takes the first spot from Vasco
By Bruno Romani | June 15th, 2007The first spot on the table for Vasco lasted less than a week. Last night, only one match for the brasileirão was played, and it ...
Grêmio: The Immortal is to die
By Bruno Romani | June 13th, 2007Every romance ends in tragedy. And this is the story of the Inmortal Tricolor, the club relegated in 2004 in the Campeonato Brasileiro. The second ...
Vasco is the new leader in the Brasileirao
By Bruno Romani | June 10th, 2007Another weekend, a new leader. Vasco crushed Grêmio, who was saving its main players for the finals of the Copa Libertadores, with a 4-0 victory ...
Internacional is the King of the Cups in South America
By Bruno Romani | June 8th, 2007Last night, Internacional and Pachuca played the second-leg of the Recopa. The Mexican team held a 2-1 advantage from the first game, and sought to ...
After 23 Years Fluminense Wins a National Title
By Bruno Romani | June 6th, 2007Fluminense visited Figueirense in Floripa and won by 1-0, through Roger. Fluminense is the Champions. Fluminense is in the 2008 edition of Copa Libertadores. Update: 23 years. Time in which ...
Grêmio is the Brazilian runners-up in the Libertadores; Santos is Out!
By Bruno Romani | June 6th, 2007Santos won by 3-1 at the Vila Belmiro, but Grêmio is in the finals! Grêmio scored first with Diego Souza, but Santos came back with Renatinho ...
Fourth Round:Goalie scores, Olympic Goal, Heel, Derbies. Need More?
By Bruno Romani | June 4th, 2007The fourth round of the Brasileirão brought back again the Brazilian flavor to stadiums. Beautiful goals and curious facts happened all over the country. Balls ...
Fluminense and Figueirense Just Tie for the 1st Leg of Copa do Brasil's Final
By Bruno Romani | May 31st, 2007Ok, the report is a bit late, but it’s here. I wanted to wait until the highlights were on Youtube. After all, we’re talking about ...
Third Round with Italian Flavor
By Bruno Romani | May 27th, 2007After the title of Milan this week in the Champions League, the campeonato brasileiro had a round of Italian football. In other words, boring, short ...
Copa do Brasil: Another Weird Final
By Bruno Romani | May 24th, 2007As I’ve said before: since CBF prohibited the clubs that play the Libertadores to participate in the Copa do Brasil, the tournament keeps getting weird ...
2 Brazilian Clubs in the semifinal of Libertadores: Conmebol Shuts Down the Party!
By Bruno Romani | May 23rd, 2007Grêmio put its secret machine of miracles to work again tonight. The club becomes a restless giant front of its fans. It is the immortal ...
Decline and Redemption: The second round of the Brasileiro
By Bruno Romani | May 20th, 2007Coaches who chose to save their main players for the mid-week round of the Copa do Brasil and Libertadores faced losses this weekend in the ...
Libertadores and Copa do Brasil: The end is near!
By Bruno Romani | May 17th, 2007Few Brazilians clubs have action during the week at this time of the year. This is so because Copa Libertadores and Copa do Brasil are ...
First Round: First Coach is Gone, Bad Visitors, Mediocre Sides
By Bruno Romani | May 13th, 2007Sunday, the first round of the campeonato brasileiro had 7 matches.Santos and Grêmio decided to save their main player for the Libertadores and had big ...
The First Round of the Brasileiro! CBF Couldn't Care Less
By Bruno Romani | May 13th, 2007Following CBF’s great marketing strategies to make the campeonato brasileiro more attractive to fans and media, the league started almost unnoticed Saturday night. CBF is ...
Get Ready again: The Serie B is also about to Start!
By Bruno Romani | May 12th, 2007Ok, ok. Série A, the first division of the Brazilian league, is the one that draws more attention. But Série B, the second division, is ...
Get Ready: Campeonato Brasileiro is about to Start
By Bruno Romani | May 11th, 2007Yep, there's nothing like persuading people in the third world to get cheap labor. This is how Luis Felipe, the new correspondent for the blog was ...
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