Brazil take on Italy tonight in London and a capacity crowd of around 60,000 are expected in the Emirates Stadium. This is the fourth time Brazil have played at Arsenal's home ground.

Juan and Kaká on target for Brazil

Brazil ended 33 years without a win against Uruguay in Montevideo with a thumping 4-0 victory on Saturday. Daniel Alves, Juan, Luís Fabiano and Kaká were all on the score sheet in a result that left Brazil temporarily top of the table. Once again, it wasn't a great performance from Brazil and Dunga's men had to thank their brilliant keeper, Júlio César, for stopping everything Uruguay threw at him.

Dunga has called up 22 players for the meeting with Italy on 10th February in Arsenal's Emirate's stadium ...

Young Brazilian goes bald In news that has rocked Italy, AC Milan star Alexandre Pato has lost his curly locks in favour of a skinhead. It was his girlfriend's brother who gave him his smooth new look. No word yet on whether he forced into it by boyfriend David Beckham. Spotted Kickette on the reborn Who Ate [.

Kaká alongside Dunga

Brazil face hosts South Africa on Thursday to see who will take on the USA in the finals of the Confederations Cup.

The confrontation will be an intriguing one for the two Brazilian coaches. Back in 1987, South Africa's, Joel Santana, was just starting his managerial career at Rio de Janeiro's, Vasco da Gama.

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The Brazilian starlet will become Nerazzurro in two years and hopes to overshadow his illustrious compatriot on the other side of the city. Inter pounced to secure the services of teenage trequartista Philippe Coutinho from Brazilian outfit Vasco da Gama last July. It was a major coup for the Beneamata as 16-year-old Coutinho was on the radar [.

Will their be more handbagging in Montevideo on Saturday?

Brazil take on Uruguay on Saturday knowing that they haven't beaten the home side in 33 years in Montevideo.

The yellow and greens last win in the Uruguayan capital came in February 1976. The 2-1 victory included a goal from debut boy, Zico.

Brazil training in Recife

Brazil take on Paraguay in the estádio Arruda in Recife on Wednesday and goalkeeper Júlio César is looking for revenge. Brazil's shot-stopper has only been beaten twice whilst representing his country and both games were against Paraguay. The first defeat came in 2004 in the Copa America when they went down 2-1.

Brazil came close to pulling off one of the biggest heists in football thanks to a second-half goal by substitute Júlio Baptista and the brilliance of Inter Milan keeper, Júlio César ...

AC Milan stars Kaká and Ronaldinho Gaúcho are back in Dunga's squad for their Word Cup qualifying games vs Ecuador on March 29th and Peru on April 1st ...

The Blues are looking to succeed where Milan have failed this summer, sign Wolfsburg's star striker Edin Dzeko. Chelsea have reportedly entered the race to sign Wolfsburg star Edin Dzeko and are planning a €23 million (£20m) offer for the player. The Mirror reports today that new head coach Carlo Ancelotti, who is looking to add quality [.

We did something similar a year ago but this year the focus will be on players under the age of twenty who could have an impact in the Champions League in 2010. The only criteria are that they play on a team that is a Champions League contender and that they are twenty years old or younger.

Mario Balotelli (Internazionale)
Age: 19
Nationality: Italian

The Italian is one of the bright lights for the future of the national side and for his club.

Brazil went second in the South America qualifying group after labouring to a 3-0 win over lowly Peru in Porto Alegre ...

Brazil celebrate

Brazil picked up their third Confederations Cup after coming back from two goals down against the United States.

The USA took a shock lead when Dempsey's snap shot caught out Brazil's static defence on the 10th minute.

With 27 minutes on the clock, the US doubled the score after a superb counterattacking move from their own half, ended with Donovan outfoxing Ramires before hitting a perfect shot past Júlio César.

So the latest installment of the Nike Vapor cleats is this fairly modest colourway of charcoal, orange and silver... they'll go perfect with my gold plated, diamond encrusted shin-pads! I'm a modest kind'a guy you know.
So it turns out Alexandre Pato will be wearing these shortly, but I'd suspect sooner rather than later of course, that C.

With World Cup qualifiers about two weeks away and the FIFA Confederations Cup about 3 weeks away, Dunga has announced the Seleção roster for those tournaments. The World Cup's all-time leading scorer Ronaldo was justifiably left off the roster despite a resurgence with Corinthians.

As AC Milan took to the field against Siena, many including myself were waiting for the wheels to...
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He's got talent but could Neymar really be better than the king?

Since we reported on their break-up a few weeks ago, Futbolita's favourite couple - Pato and Sthefany - have apparently been working things out and are now back together. How apt... for Valentine's Day perhaps? The Brazilian gossip media reported that Sthefany, who was 'depressed in the relationship', asked for a break up because she [.

Dunga has announced the 23 players that will face Uruguay and Paraguay in the World Cup on 6th and 10th June respectively, and for Confederations Cup in South Africa from 14th to 18th June.

The squad includes Internacional's in-form font man, Nilmar; Corinthian leftback, André Santos; Grêmio's keeper, Victor; and Cruzeiro's Ramires (who is expected to join Benfica soon).

Latest news and gossip on transfers in the English Premier League - Former Real president Ramon Calderon claims the Ronaldo deal was arranged a year ago.

Brazil take on Peru tonight in Internacional's estádio Beira-Rio and are expected to have Kaká and Ronaldinho Gaúcho playing together for the first time in 16 months ...

by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

AC Milan midfielder Kaka has sent Real Madrid a wishlist that they will need to meet in order to sign him from Milan.

Kaka's wishlist, which doesn't even include the record transfer Madrid needs to give Milan, insists of a $14.1 million sign-on fee for himself, a $14.

by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o is not ruling out a possible transfer move this summer.

Eto'o is coming off a 30-goal season in La Liga and with only a year remaining on his current contract, Barcelona is trying to work out a new deal.

Kaká gets the winner against a plucky Egypt

Brazil's Confederation Cup campaign got off to a shaky start after they squeezed past Egypt 4-3 in the Free State stadium.

Kaká, Luís Fabiano and Juan had given Brazil a 3-1 lead but Shawky and two from Zidan brought things level in the second-half.

Douglas Costa

Contrary to reports circulating in the British press, Douglas Costa's agent, Cesar Bottega, does not in fact believe that Manchester United are willing to pay the large fee Grêmio want for their 18-year-old.

"I don't believe that they [Manchester United] will reach this figure", the agent told Porto Alegre newspaper Zero Hora.

What The Papers Say Gazzetta dello Sport - Friday January 16th Kaka-City: There's substance - The Brazilian's father and agent is ready to meet with the English club and Milan admit there are talks Pato: If I were Kaka, I would stay here Balotelli wins over Mourinho and Inter Juve, Giovinco is a puzzle - He is again shut out by the old guard and asks for a chance Gourcuff's father: He will

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Parece que la venta de Kaká al Real Madrid ha hecho mucho daño en el Milan. A las contínuas muestras de desacuerdo que ofrecen los seguidores rossoneros a su directiva en los últimos días, se le unen ahora las declaraciones de Andrea Pirlo y Alexandre Pato, dos de los jugadores más importantes del plantel ahora dirigido por Leonardo.

Daniel Alves puts Brazil in the final

An 87th minute goal by Daniel Alves put Brazil in the final of the Confederation Cup against the United States on Sunday.

Alves hit a wonderful free-kick less than five minutes after coming on for André Santos.

Until that point, there was very little to choose between the two sides.

Brazil's head coach Dunga has released a squad of 23 players for the upcoming Confederations Cup. There's no Ronaldinho or Ronaldo in the team, but most of the big stars are there. The U.S. and Brazil have been drawn into Group B of the Confederations Cup, and the two sides will meet on June 18 in Tshwane/Pretoria.

Check out Brazil's roster for the Confederations Cup. You'll notice a couple big names missing.
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Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Inter Milan), Gomes (Tottenham Hotspur), Victor (Gremio)

Defenders: Maicon (Inter Milan), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Alex (Chelsea), Juan (AS Roma), Lucio (Bayern Munich), Luisao (Benfica), Kleber (Internacional), Andre Santos (Corinthians).

You've got to love the transfer window. It's only inevitable that there's going to be at least one major saga in any transfer window, and just a few days into the summer window, we've got quite the saga brewing involving Kaka, Real Madrid, and Chelsea.

Of course, there's a lot more in the transfer news pages than this, but it's safe to say that it's going to be dominating the headlines until there's some sort of resolution one way or another.

Surely Manchester United must sign Carlos Tevez now. With Cristiano Ronaldo off to Madrid, the Red Devils need a replacement that cannot be found in one player. CR7 is a complete footballer, blessed with pace, power, dribbling, shooting, heading, free kicks, etc.

He is one of a kind.

Dunga has called up 22 players for Brazil's final World Cup qualifying matches against Bolivia in La Paz on October 11th and Venezuela in Campo Grande three days later.
Brazil are leaders with 33 points and have already qualified for the finals in South Africa next year. With this in mind, Dunga was expected to bring in some fresh faces for the remaining two games.

AC Milan's ever improving form continued overnight and again Beckham and Kaka were pivotal to the teams success. Beckham's two assists put Pato and Ambrosini on the score sheet and then some brilliant inter-play between Seedorf and Kaka cut right through the heart of Lazio's defense only for the Brazilian, wearing his new Adidas Adi-Pure boots to calmly slot past the advancing Lazio keeper.

In 2008 a record 1,176 Brazilian footballers left their homeland to ply their trade abroad, 762 of them ended up in Europe with Portugal unsurprisingly the most popular destination. In total 209 players headed back to the ‘motherland' while Germany claimed 58, Switzerland took 46 and Spain snapped up 34.

Only two weeks ago I was sitting by my laptop thinking up an article about Brazil national team coach Dunga, and how he has disappointed fans of the Seleção since taking the helm. I decided to put the article on hold and lucky I did too as I would have looked like an idiot after their group games in the Confederations Cup.