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Player Focus: Luís Fabiano Gatecrashes the Fantastic Four to Provide Reminder of his Quality

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Nov 19 2014 15:29
Player Focus: Luís Fabiano Gatecrashes the Fantastic Four to Provide Reminder of his Quality Bad news for fans of title races going right to the wire: it now seems unlikely that São Paulo will manage to overthrow the heavyweights of Cruzeiro before the Campeonato Brasileirão season ends. Going into the midweek round, the Tricolor trail by four points having played a game more ...
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Player Focus: Five Youngsters Enjoying Breakout Seasons in Brazil’s Série A

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Nov 5 2014 12:13
Player Focus: Five Youngsters Enjoying Breakout Seasons in Brazil’s Série A With six games of the season remaining, there remains plenty to play for in the 2014 Brasileirão – even if those dastardly Cruzeiro schemers have already all but wrapped up their second consecutive title. The race for the Libertadores places is hotter than the surface of the sun (just t...
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Player Focus: Lucas Lima – The Heir to the Playmaking Throne at Santos

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Oct 22 2014 16:34
Player Focus: Lucas Lima – The Heir to the Playmaking Throne at Santos The first pass is all about vision – that most nebulous of attributes that most players aspire to but very few attain. A quick look up in a busy midfield. A runner. A swish of the left boot. Centre-back and full-back sliced apart. Geuvânio scampers through to score the opener.The second ...

Player Focus: Eduardo da Silva Reinventing Himself at Flamengo

by Jack Lang at Friday, Oct 3 2014 11:00
Player Focus: Eduardo da Silva Reinventing Himself at Flamengo Whisper it quietly, but it is perhaps indicative of the global standing of the Campeonato Brasileiro that players can thrive there long after they hit the proverbial wall in Europe. A fading Ronaldinho? Amazing in Brazil. Kaká, years after his peak? Doing really well, thank you very much. Lu&...
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Player focus: Five Men Who Could Shape Brazil’s Relegation Battle

by Jack Lang at Thursday, Sep 18 2014 11:39
Player focus: Five Men Who Could Shape Brazil’s Relegation Battle Finally, after over a year of utter dominance, it looked as though Cruzeiro may have company at the top of the Campeonato Brasileiro table. The reigning champions were defeated 2-0 at the weekend by São Paulo, who then proceeded to lose to relegation candidates Coritiba, moving back to seven ...
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Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome

by Jack Lang at Thursday, Sep 4 2014 09:36
Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome Of all the sides in the Campeonato Brasileiro, none contains more recognisable faces – to European football fans, at least – than São Paulo FC. There's Álvaro Pereira, the Uruguayan wing-back, on the left flank. Former Arsenal midfielder Denílson sits in front of the...
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Player Focus: New Faces Provide Reason for Cheer Despite Brazil's Managerial Farce

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Aug 20 2014 16:13
Player Focus: New Faces Provide Reason for Cheer Despite Brazil's Managerial Farce Some clever bloke with a hip, east-London beard once said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Events echo through the ages. The cosmos writes its own punchlines.You don’t imagine that the corrupt old boys of Brazil’s football federation have much time for Marxist...
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Player Focus: The Challenge of Replacing Ronaldinho

by Jack Lang at Friday, Aug 1 2014 12:07
Player Focus: The Challenge of Replacing Ronaldinho He left as he arrived: with misdirection and mystery. Whispers of discontent. A request to play at the testimonial of Deco in Portugal. A missed flight. A few days off the radar.For Ronaldinho, it was ever thus. Football's great travelling entertainer has always mixed one part frustration and two pa...
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Team Focus: Goiás Continue to Confound Expectations in Brazil's Emerald City

by Jack Lang at Friday, May 16 2014 10:58
Team Focus: Goiás Continue to Confound Expectations in Brazil's Emerald City Like most big conglomerations in Brazil, Goiânia, a city of 1.4 million souls nestled in the country's midwestern belt, goes by a couple of nicknames. It is both the Capital of the Cerrado (a tropical savannah that runs through the state of Goiás and neighbouring Minas Gerais), as well ...
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League Focus: Brasileirão 2014 Season Preview

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Apr 16 2014 15:24
League Focus: Brasileirão 2014 Season Preview It’s springtime in Europe. Blossom and leaves are returning to the trees, birds are chirping louder than ever, while for a hardy subset of the football-loving world, the internet’s blurriest, most unreliable streams beckon anew. That’s right, after a meagre four-month lay-off, the ...
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