Luís Fabiano scores against Estonia
Brazil made hard work of a testy match against Estonia in Tallinn. In the end, a late first-half
goal by Luís Fabiano was all that separated Brazil from a country 112th in the FIFA world
rankings.
Despite being a meaningless ‘friendly', the confrontation was littered with bad tackles by
both sides.
Sandro Ranieri with the U20 trophy in Venezuela
The Brazilian Football Confederation, the CBF, has just announced that Internacional's
20-year-old midfielder, Sandro Ranieri, has been brought in to replace the injured Josué.
The youngster will join the squad for Brazil's World Cup qualifiers against Argentina on
September 5th and Chile four days later.
"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
What if the legend stops being fact? What if the legend not only stops being fact, but goes on
being printed anyway, printed incessantly, at every opportunity, printed and duplicated and
reprinted and reduplicated to the point that it becomes an inescapable atmospheric cliché?
Fábio Aurélio
On Thursday, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) announced that Liverpool's Fábio
Aurélio has a problem with his left calf muscle and would not face England in Qatar on November
14th and Oman three days later. The last time the leftback was called up for Brazil was by Carlos
Alberto Parreira for the Confederations Cup in 2003.
Ricardo Teixeira
In an interview with O Globo, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation,
Ricardo Teixeira, has spoken about a possible alteration to the Brazilian football season.
Teixeira said that it was the right time to start a discussion on whether the country's national
league should be switched to run from August to May.
