Clube Atlético Mineiro, usually known as Atlético, is a football club based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They currently campaign in the top-tier of Brazilian soccer the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Last season the club, nicknamed Galo (Rooster in English), finished in 7th place in the league. Last night Atlético Mineiro presented their Topper kit collection [.

The new FIFA 2010 World Cup Ads are coming in at a faster rate now as the biggest sporting event in the world is quickly approaching. Coke's latest attempt features transformer like Brazilian soccer machines playing a young African boy who is on a personal football journey. The song again showcases this summers football anthem "Waving Flag" by Canadian Artist K'naan.

Treze Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team from Campina Grande in Paraíba, founded on September 7, 1925. The club currently competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D (the fourth tier of soccer in Brazil). Treze last competed in the top division of Brazilian soccer, the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, in 1983.

Due to Chelsea's continuing pursuit to put 18 year-old striker Neymar at Stamford Bridge, Santos president Luis Alvaro Ribiero is now considering reporting Chelsea to FIFA.

It has been reported that Chelsea representatives met with both Neymar's agent and his family in New York prior to Brazil's international friendly with the U.

Rio de Janeiro club Fluminense won its second ever Campeonato Brasileiro Série A title (and first since 1984) on Sunday with a 1-0 home victory over relegated Guarani. Among the tens of thousands long-suffering Tricolor Carioca fans packing Fluminense's stadium yesterday were a host of Brazilian soccer babes celebrating their club's championship.

Shout out goes out to "O Guru" Roberto de Sousa over at Brazilian Soccer Skills for his Power Point presentations. One of the first we want to share with everyone is the commemorative posters from all the past World Cups starting back in 1930 in Uruguay.
Check this presentation out and let us know what you think as we jam to Seu Jorge's "Tive Razão".

Serie A on Fox Soccer Channel: Siena - Inter Milan at 9am, Chievo - AS Roma at 11am, and to be determined at 1pm. On Fox Soccer Plus there are to be determined slots at 9am and 2pm. La Liga on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes: Valladolid - Barcelona at 1pm. GolTV has Malaga - Real Madrid at 1pm. Brazilian soccer on GolTV: Gremio - Corinthians at 3pm and Vasco da Gama - Palmeiras at 5:30pm.

With so many stars at this year's World Cup Finals. Here's 10 players we will miss at this years Finals after failing to make the cut for their countries.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is a Brazilian football club from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais founded on January 2, 1921. Cruzeiro currently campaigns in the top-tier of Brazilian soccer the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The club finished in 4th place last season's league. As such, Cruzeiro qualified for the 2010 Copa Libertadores.

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: Seattle - San Jose at 3pm. On Galavision: Houston - DC at 8pm. Champions League final on Fox: Inter Milan - Bayern Munich at 2:30pm. US Women - Germany is on ESPN2 at 6pm. English League playoffs: Blackpool - Cardiff at 10am on Fox Soccer Plus. Plus also has Turkey - Czech Republic at 6pm.

Brazilian organizers of the 2014 World Cup have dropped Sao Paulo's Morumbi Stadium as a venue because the city has failed to provide financial guarantees. The Brazilian soccer federation says the Morumbi will not be ...

And so, with the 2010 World Cup passing into the history books, we peek ahead to 2014, as the World Cup returns to South America for the first time since 1978, heading to Brazil. It has been a long break for the continent: 4 of the first 11 World Cups staged were held there, but none of the 8 since.

Summer's almost over, and millions of kids are getting ready to hit the books. We thought it would be fitting to give our readers a little history lesson – soccer history, of course. So class, school is now in session, and today's topic is Soccer in America 101.

Roughly 30 years ago, the New York Cosmos were the best and worst of what soccer had to offer in the United States.

So yes, a disturbing trend has emerged. I have fallen off the soccer-linguistic trendsetting train and also, more importantly, the Portuguese believe they can slap an "inha" on something and that makes it okay.

Well, unfortunately for the Portuguese (and Brazilians), the sheriff is back in town.

Soccer cheerleaders have been a prominent in Major League Soccer and the Mexican Primera for some time now. In recent years the land of Samba and some of the best soccer players in history, Brazil, has picked up on the trend. Among the most popular of the Brazilian soccer cheerleading troupes is the Santos FC [.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is a Brazilian football club, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on January 2, 1921. Cruzeiro currently campaigns in the top-tier of Brazilian soccer the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The club finished in 4th place last season's league. As such, Cruzeiro qualified for the 2010 Copa Libertadores.

Clube Atlético Paranaense is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba in Paraná currently campaigning in the top-tier of Brazilian soccer the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The club last won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2001. It finished in 14th position in the league last season.

Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas is one of the biggest clubs in Brazil and one of the four major football clubs in Rio de Janeiro along with Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. Botafogo FR currently campaigns in the top tier of Brazilian soccer the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The club will be seeking [.

From Sports Illustrated comes word of changes to Law 14 for the World Cup!

Penalty-takers at the World Cup will not be able to feint as they are about to kick the ball after a change in rules was announced on Tuesday, just three weeks before the start of the sport's biggest event.

From Sports Illustrated comes word of changes to Law 14 for the World Cup!

Penalty-takers at the World Cup will not be able to feint as they are about to kick the ball after a change in rules was announced on Tuesday, just three weeks before the start of the sport's biggest event.

New York - Juventus at 1pm on Fox Soccer Channel. Mexican Clausura finals on Telemundo: Toluca - Santos Laguna at 1pm. Brazilian soccer on GolTV: Corinthians - Flamengo at 3pm. All Times Eastern

USA - Turkey is on ESPN2 and Galavision at 2pm. Same channels for New England - New York at 8pm. Fox Soccer Channel has Houston - Philadelphia at 8:30pm. Fox Soccer Plus has the League One playoff: Millwall Swindon at 10am. ESPN Deportes has Hungary - Germany at 2pm. Brazilian soccer on GolTV: Flamengo - Gremio at 5:30pm.

Fox Soccer Channel has England - Japan at 8am. Also on FSC: Chicago - Milan at 8:30pm. League Two playoff on Fox Soccer Plus: Dagenham & Redbridge - Rotherham at 10am. Mexico plays Gambia on Telemundo at 11am. Brazilian soccer on GolTV: Corinthians - Santos at 3pm. ESPN Deportes has Chile - Northern Ireland at 4pm.

Saddam Maake is South Africa's most passionate soccer supporter. He's a local Johannesburg legend, happens to like giant neon yellow sunglasses and participates in bizarre rain dances to his own soccer inspired songs. We take a tour of his house – or more aptly, his shrine to all things Bafana Bafana & Kaiser Chiefs FC – to get the real story on the man who claims to have invented the vuvuzela.

Part 3 of the "We Are 11" series, produced by VBS in conjunction with the release of EA Sports' FIFA 11. This episode explores the important roll that voluptuous, scantily clad women play in the world of Brazilian soccer.
The largest soccer fan club in the world belongs to São Paulo's Corinthians FC.

With a little and very loose tie-in to El Clásico

The author likes this organization and the soccer it represents...

if you've read anything I've written about soccer, you know I like Brazilian soccer, the Brazilian national soccer teams, and lots of Brazilian players. But there are Brazilians I don't like, or who I think are overrated, or both.

The World Cup 2018/22 races were thrown into more confusion on Monday with various media sources linking three key FIFA executive committee members who will vote on Thursday to payoffs from ISL, the international sports agency, before its collapse in 2001.
Ricardo Teixeira (former FIFA president Joao Havelange's former son-in-law and the boss of Brazilian soccer), Paraguayan Nicolas Leoz (president of the South American soccer confederation Conmebol) and Cameroonian Issa Hayatou (president of the African soccer confederation) were the three named in reports in Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, German paper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and on the BBC's "Panorama" show.

Why the end of this year's Brazilian Championship was so unsatisfying

The Brazilian Championship ended Sunday. I'd love to be able to write a gushing post about what a great end the tournament had. Unfortunately, people in power in Brazilian soccer (and my stubborn insistence on knowing things and not forgetting them) ruined it for me.