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 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. They finished in 3rd place last season and currently lie in 6th position in the league as the current Brazilian soccer season winds down. Click to continue reading...

During last night's Brazilian Serie A league match between São Paulo FC and Internacional an aspiring young footballer invaded the pitch in the 33rd minute of the first half. "So what's the big deal?" you may ask. Well this was a case of a young player attempting to break into the big time. Instead of trying the [. Click to continue reading...

Rogério Ceni scores then gets sent off against Santos

Three losses in a row has suddenly left Palmeiras' championship chances in grave doubt. The latest defeat came away at strugglers Santo André on Wednesday. The result provided another opportunity for Palmeiras' rivals to make ground on the leaders.

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Brazil will get to lock horns with the country ranked 79th in the world when they play Oman in Muscat on 17th November this year.

Three days before, Brazil take on England in Qatar. The squad for both matches will be announced on October 27th. Dunga (photo) is not expected to call up Brazil-based players whose sides are involved in the final stage of the Campeonato Brasileiro.

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All and sundry are reporting that Harry is close to agreeing a deal to bring in Sandro Ranieri Guimarães Cordeiro, or just Sandro to you and me.
This story popped up just before the summer transfer window closed and guess what, the same guys that stated we were about to sign him then, have gone all out on yet another exclusive and told us that now we're near to agreeing a deal to bring this lad in during the January sales. Click to continue reading...

Joint top scorer with 15 goals in the Campeonato Brasileiro (national league, which has 8 rounds remaining), 16 goals in the Campeonato Mineiro (local State championship), 4 goals in the Copa do Brasil (Brazilian cup) not a bad tally for Atlético Mineiro's Diego Tardelli. Add to this his recent call up to Brazil and it's not much of a surprise that the player is being linked with a possible move to Manchester City (though who isn't these days?

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A Petkovic brace sinks the leaders

Two goals from Flamengo's Petkovic ended Palmeiras' unbeaten run in the Palestra Itália and cut their lead at the top of the table to just four points.

The Greens dominated for most of the first-half but an excellent dribble and finish by the veteran Petkovic put Fla ahead.

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Ghana defended tenaciously for 120 minutes of open play before beating Brazil in a penalty-kick shootout on Friday to become the first African team to win the Under-20 World Cup. The game finished 0-0 after regulation and extra time as the Black Satellites held off Brazil's repeated attacks on goal. Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu scored the winning penalty kick [. Click to continue reading...

Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba, Paraná. It was founded in 1909 by several youngsters from the German community of the town. Coritiba currently campaigns in the first tier of Brazilian football the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Their sole league title came in 1985. Click to continue reading...

Brazilian striker Ronaldo's club, Corinthians Paulista, has launched a new program called Timão é a sua cara / Timão and your face that lets fans of the club (nicknamed "Timão") have 3″ x 4″ pictures of themselves placed on the a special edition of its Nike 2009/10 home kit. The resulting fan face-emblazoned kit will [. Click to continue reading...

Esporte Clube Santo André, also known as Santo André, is a Brazilian football team from Santo André, São Paulo. The club currently campaigns in the top tier of Brazilian football the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A after being promoted from the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B at the end of the 2008/09 season. Click to continue reading...

Brazil is through to the quarter-finals of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup 2009 following their 3-1 win over Uruguay earlier today. Alan Kardec notched the opener for Brazil in the 22nd minute before Man of the Match Alex Teixeira scored a brace for the young Selecção with goals in the 24th and 31st minutes. Click to continue reading...

Palmeiras' Cleiton Xavier, Vagner Love and Diego Souza celebrate another win

Muricy Ramalho's Palmeiras came from behind to take all three points against Santos in the Vila Belmiro. The 3-1 win left the Palestra Itália outfit five clear at the top and even with 11 rounds to go, it's difficult to see anyone dislodging Palmeiras from their position as leaders.

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FootBrazil spoke to Diego Tardelli before his call up by Brazil. The Atlético Mineiro ‘bad boy' is currently amongst the Campeonato Brasileiro leading scorers with 13 to his name. Tardelli started his career at São Paulo before moving on to Real Betis, São Caetano, PSV, Flamengo and Atlético Mineiro.

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In the second division of Campeonato Brasileiro, goalie Marcio was the main name of the match involving the two sides from Goiania. His team, Atletico-GO, beat Vila Nova 2-1. And he scored the first goal with a beautiful free-kick. Atletico-GO is on its way to first division. With the victory, the club seats in third with 47 points.

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São Paulo gift Ronaldo a goal in the Morumbi

A 2-1 victory over strugglers Atlético Paranaense plus São Paulo's and Internacional's failures to win their games has left Palmeiras in a commanding position in the Campeonato Brasileiro.

Chile international Figueroa made the best of his first start for Palmeiras scoring the Green's opener in the Palestra Itália.

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Here's our latest installment from the Musa do Brasileirão competition. Again, it's a beauty (and more) competition of sorts featuring young ladies representing each of the teams competing in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (the top tier of Brazilian football). Today's featured contestant is Simone Fescki of Coritiba. Click to continue reading...

Neto Berola scores Vitória's second against Palmeiras

Palmeiras went down 3-2 away to Vitória but second-placed Internacional failed to take advantage by losing by the same score at home to Cruzeiro.

Goals from Uelliton, Neto Berola and debut boy, Derlei, earned Vitória three deserved points.

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Yossi Benayoun may have scored a hat-trick and set up another goal in today's 4-0 drubbing of Burnley but manager Rafael Benitez attributes another player as Liverpool's show-stealer. Brazilian youngster Lucas Leiva - heavily criticised by the Anfield faithful for an as-yet mediocre two years in England - has his manager purring. Click to continue reading...

The soccer babes like Ellen Roche weren't there as they were for Figueirense's home and away kit launches earlier this year but goalie Wilson and winger Lucas, showed up at the Figueira Store yesterday for the launch of the club's Fila 2009/10 third kits. The new Fila 09/10 Figueirense goalkeeper third kit is personalized for Wilson with [. Click to continue reading...

With the suspension of Kaka, Lucio, Luis Fabiano and Ramires and the injury of Robinho, Dunga called for the match against Chile four players who play in Brazil it is important to remember that those playing overseas could not be called because of the rules that FIFA has. With that, Dunga called defender Andre Dias (Sao Paulo), midfielder Cleiton Xavier (Palmeiras) and forwards Diego Tardelli (Atletico-MG) and Diego Souza (Palmeiras).

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Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is one of the most successful football team in Brazilian history, having won the first edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, the Brazilian Série A four times, the Brazilian Cup twice, the São Paulo State Championship 26 times, amongst other honours. They've been in the news lately as Brazilian legend Ronaldo [. Click to continue reading...

Fluminense Football Club is a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil based soccer team. They are currently coached by former Brazil manager Carlos Alberto Parreira and campaign in the top tier of Brazilian football the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Earlier this month, Fluminense and global sportswear giant Adidas presented the club's third kit for the 2009/10 season. Click to continue reading...

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is one of the most successful football team in Brazilian history, having won the first edition of the FIFA Club World Championship, the Brazilian Série A four times, the Brazilian Cup twice, the São Paulo State Championship 26 times, amongst other honours. They've been in the news lately as Brazilian legend Ronaldo [. Click to continue reading...

Last week, we brought you a first look at the Palmeiras 2009/10 Adidas third kit. Now the club has released a good-looking launch video of the club's players in the new Italian-inspired kit. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. Check out our 2009/10 Kits and Jerseys section for more new kits and our Videos section for [. Click to continue reading...

Brazil is close to sealing qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, if they can beat Argentina on the road on the 5th and Chile at home on the 9th then Brazil will be on their way to South Africa.
The big news was the call up of Adriano of Flamengo to the national team. The big forward seems to have regained his scoring touch with Flamengo. Click to continue reading...

Some of you may remember the scandal of result fixture in the 2005 Campeonato Brasileiro. At the time, referees Edílson Pereira de Carvalho and Paulo José Danelon were caught being bribed by "investors" to fix results that would benefit their bets in international websites. When caught, Carvalho was even jailed and confessed his participation.

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Brazil coach Dunga has named his squad for the September's COMNEBOL World Cup Qualifiers. Of note is that out of form Ronaldinho has been omitted from the squad once again. However, striker Adriano has returned to the fold after showing good form at Flamengo. Brazil are away to Argentina in Rosario on September 5 and host Chile [. Click to continue reading...

Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, usually called Palmeiras, is a Brazilian football team from São Paulo. The team was founded on August 26, 1914, as Società Sportiva Palestra Italia but changed to the current name on September 14, 1942. It is one of the most popular Brazilian clubs once represented by Roque Junior, Roberto Carlos and Rivaldo. Click to continue reading...

Adriano: They call me mellow yellow

Dunga has called up 22 players for the World Cup qualifying clashes against Argentina in Rosario on September 5th and Chile in Salvador four days later. Â

Flamengo forward, Adriano, is the name that stands out. The player is one of the top scorers in the Campeonato Brasileiro with ten goals to his name.

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Four months and six days later after breaking his ankle, Rogerio Ceni returned to action in the 1-0 victory of Sao Paulo over Fluminense. It was game number 359 of Rogerio in the Campeonato Brasileiro, which makes him the player who played the most in the tournament along with ex-midifielder Zinho.

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Surprises are the return of Adriano, who even fat is the top striker scorer of Campeonato Brasileiro, the return of Lucas, from Liverpool, and the new chance for left-back Filipe Luís. Miranda, the best defender in Brazil, was called one more time. Pato was left out again, a clear sign that Dunga is not happy with him after the striker's disappointing performances at the Olympics and the Confederations Cup.

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Here's our latest installment from the Musa do Brasileirão competition. Again, it's a beauty (and more) competition of sorts featuring young ladies representing each of the teams competing in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (the top tier of Brazilian football). Today's featured contestant is Andreia Alves of Santo André. Click to continue reading...

I took the last week off, and wasn't unable to report on Campeonato Brasileiro. The 16th and 17th round got unreported, so this post will give you the state of the league.

16th round

Sport 0 x 1 Palmeiras
Botafogo 2 x 1 Grêmio Barueri
Corinthians 0 x 0 Avaí
Atlético-PR 1 x 0 Fluminense
Flamengo 1 x 1 Náutico
Vitória 0 x 1 São Paulo
Santo André 1 x 2 Goiás
Grêmio 4 x 1 Cruzeiro
Atlético-MG 3 x 2 Coritiba

17th Round

Cruzeiro 0 x 2 Atlético-PR
São Paulo 3 x 1 Botafogo
Avaí 1 x 0 Santo André
Coritiba 0 x 1 Santos
Goiás 3 x 2 Flamengo
Náutico 1 x 0 Corinthians
Palmeiras 1 x 1 Grêmio
Grêmio Barueri 4 x 0 Vitória
Fluminense 5 x 1 Sport

*the two matches involving Internacional (versus Santos and Atletico-MG) were postponed.

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Here's our latest installment from the Musa do Brasileirão competition. Again, it's a beauty (and more) competition of sorts featuring young ladies representing each of the teams competing in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (the top tier of Brazilian football). Today's featured contestant is Renata Leal of Clube Atlético Mineiro. Click to continue reading...