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Season Review: Brasileirao 2016 Round-up

by Jack Lang at среда, дек 14 2016 13:10
Season Review: Brasileirao 2016 Round-up The delayed final round of the Brazilian season was a touching, tearful affair. Up and down the country, tributes were paid to the victims of the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of 19 Chapecoense players, plus other club employees and members of the press, in Colombia last month.Most teams...
Categories: Season Review

Inter in need of a miracle to avoid club-first relegation

by Jack Lang at среда, ноя 23 2016 16:20
Inter in need of a miracle to avoid club-first relegation One of the root causes of the problems that weigh on Brazilian football is the fact that so many teams fancy themselves among the elite. While Spain has its big two - sorry, Atleti - England has a rotating cast of four or five heavy hitters and both Germany and France have one dominant force,the fie...
Categories: The Expert

Top Match Preview: Brazil aiming to exorcise Mineirao demons against Argentina

by Jack Lang at среда, ноя 9 2016 17:36
Top Match Preview: Brazil aiming to exorcise Mineirao demons against Argentina Even two years on, the memories remain fresh. It was a harrowing, indelible night, one that continues to be spoken about with a vague sense of disbelief. There are defeats and then there are defeats, and Brazil's World Cup capitulation at the hands of Germany – 'the 7-1', as it has come to be ...
Categories: Top Match Preview

Cult hero Camilo taking Botafogo to new heights in Brazil

by Jack Lang at среда, окт 19 2016 12:05
Cult hero Camilo taking Botafogo to new heights in Brazil He doesn't look like a hero. He's short, stumpy, has a scrunched-up face and the kind of haircut that should have been left in the last millennium. He doesn't sound like a star. He's 30 and has never played for his country. His CV is that of a ten-a-penny Brazilian journeyman, elevated above the mun...
Categories: The Expert

'Ricardiola' conquers hearts & minds as Flamengo sniff title glory

by Jack Lang at четверг, сен 22 2016 10:20
'Ricardiola' conquers hearts & minds as Flamengo sniff title glory They arrived in their droves, some from the neighbouring bairros, pleased to have a game on their doorstep, others from further afield. It was 11am on Sunday - no time for football, really - but already the sun was beating down; by the time the game kicked off, a good number of them had abandoned th...
Categories: Team Focus

Atletico MG's Magic Square Lifts Galo Towards the Top

by Jack Lang at четверг, авг 18 2016 16:20
Atletico MG's Magic Square Lifts Galo Towards the Top Someone in Brazilian football needs to put a call in to De La Soul and break the news: the results are in and - for now at least - four, not three, is very much the magic number.That's certainly the case for the Brazil men's team at the Olympics. After watching his charges slump to back-to-back goal...
Categories: Team Focus

Palmeiras lead the way as Cuca's recipe comes to the boil

by Jack Lang at среда, июл 20 2016 12:15
Palmeiras lead the way as Cuca's recipe comes to the boil It was the morning after World Emoji Day, so the headline was rather more oblique than usual.Beneath a photo of a jubilant Erik, sports daily Lance! had printed a number of symbols that told the story of Sunday's Internacional vs Palmeiras match. Some – a Brazilian flag, a thumbs-up, a smiley ...
Categories: Team Focus

Five Youngsters Shining at the Start of the 2016 Brasileirão

by Jack Lang at понедельник, июн 20 2016 12:36
Five Youngsters Shining at the Start of the 2016 Brasileirão Euro 2016 and the Copa América may be in full swing, but domestic football in Brazil waits for no man or beast.In little more than a month, we've already rattled through nine rounds of the 2016 Campeonato Brasileiro – the kind of breathless run that reminds you that this league, more th...

Your Guide to Brasileirão 2016

by Jack Lang at четверг, май 12 2016 11:15
Your Guide to Brasileirão 2016 It seems like only yesterday that we were ushering the 2015 Brasileirão into the sweet hereafter, yet here we are, plunging headlong towards the watering hole once more. The tears in my eyes? Nothing but condensation. We go again.Talking logisticsPub quiz question: what is the opposite of joy...
Categories: League Focus

League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Review

by Jack Lang at четверг, дек 17 2015 15:01
League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Review For British football fans, Christmas is a time for joyously abandoning oneself to the vagaries of the fixture list. For our more cultured continental cohorts, it’s time for forty winks, a holiday and – heaven forbid – spending time with one’s family. Such are the rhythms of f...
Categories: League Focus