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Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title

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Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title The Campeonato Brasileiro, to bastardise that neat Gary Lineker aphorism, is a simple championship. 20 teams slog away for the best part of a year and in the end, Cruzeiro win.It wasn’t always thus, of course: the Belo Horizonte side’s dominance is a relatively unusual phenomenon for a l...

Player Focus: New Faces Provide Reason for Cheer Despite Brazil's Managerial Farce

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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...

Player Focus: Brazilian Wildcards Who Could Play Their Way into World Cup Contention

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Player Focus: Brazilian Wildcards Who Could Play Their Way into World Cup Contention By now, Luiz Felipe Scolari has already identified most of the players who – barring injury or a drastic loss of form – will represent Brazil at next summer’s World Cup. The base of the squad that performed so well at the Confederations Cup will be maintained, with Felipão t...