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Swine Flu Causes a Wave of Rumors About Copa Libertadores

The swine flu is having a clear impact in the Copa Libertadores. After Chivas and San Luis from Mexico qualified for the next round of the tournament, CONMEBOL announced that the two clubs could not play in Mexico. Bogota, in Colombia, was announced as the hosting town.
But the Colombian capital declined to receive the [...]

The Kiddo’s Got Something…

And his name is Taison from Inter.

Taison (pronounce it like Mike Tyson. Yes, some say it actually was a tribute to the boxer) is the man (sorry, the kid) who helped Inter’s official make up their minds about letting Alex go. Their reasoning was, “why should we keep a 27 year old if we have [...]

Arrival

A new era has started for this blog. Stay tuned and you will see!

Dunga calls the squad for the next WC qualifiers matches. A little better?

Dunga is back on duty and has called today the 22 players who will face Colombia and Venezuela for the next phase of the 2010 World Cup qualifying matches. Ronaldinho is out (good - he was useless son the pitch) and so is Diego (not sure this was a good call). Dunga is still insisting [...]

Does Brazil need to consider a style re-think?

I think it does. Today I read a nice article from BBC writer Tim Vickery. Here is a small excerpt.
If defeat presents an opportunity to reflect and learn, then last week could have been very significant in Brazilian football.
Brazil’s quest to win Olympic gold was put back another four years after they went down 3-0 [...]

See all the goals. Brazil vs. New Zealand.

5 - 0 baby! That was beautiful!!! Ronaldinho finally came back to his senses!
4′ Anderson

Messi novel resolved. Apparently.

Lionel Messi has been given the OK to go play for Argentina in Beijing. The Barcelona star was having several issues with the club letting him off the leash. FIFA has forced Barcelona to let him ‘free’ since he has Olympic age (under 23). Barcelona is not happy at all and will still try to [...]

Super cool !

Capello on England’s football, Beckham and the match against France.

Beautiful! Brazil 5 - Ghana 1

I woke up extra early today beacause I know that the Brazilian women’s national team never lets you down. I was right. Marta, Christiane and Formiga showed the beautiful football which sometimes lacks on them men’s team. The match winner would get the last spot on the Olympic games, in Beijing. Brazil took it, 5-1. [...]

Booo. FIFA does not like technology.

Yes, they don’t. Technology which would most likely improve the performance of the referee has been rejected by the Ship Mother of Football. The International Board decided to suspend all technological efforts that might help the refs, said Jerome Valcke this past Saturday.