This is what the Maracana looked like in the victory against Palmeiras.

Vasco da Gama is back from hell. The Brazilian giant granted its return to the first division of Campeonato Brasileiro less than a year after being relegated. Vasco was another giant that, as it's been happening a lot lately, felt the results of the poor administrations that control most of Brazilian football.

Today Raymond Domenech presented France's new kit to be used at the World Cup in 2010. Not my favorite one to be honest. What do you think?

Adidas is bringing back all balls used on World Cups since 1970. The commemorative set includes 10 balls and goes for $849.99. Each ball comes with its own ring stand commemorating the year in which it was used. Such a neat idea!

On Sunday, a Brazilian (and Corinthians) fan invaded the pitch of the match Bolivia 2 1 Brazil. The man had a sign in his hands that basically asked Dunga to take the "fatty" to the World Cup. As you may guess, the fatty is Ronaldo. The irony is the size of the fan, which makes him fat as well. It is the old story: similar people look out for each other.

It's on sale at the virtual store of Corinthians the action figure of Ronaldo wearing the club's jersey. It is 16cm tall and costs R$ 79.90 (US$1 = R$1.80).

The Blog Memoria E. C. has a entertaining series that features fans that collect jerseys of their clubs> There's a lot of nice material.

The collector of Santos (click here to see pictures) has about 170 jerseys 155 used by the players.
Highlight: Jerseys signed by Pele and the powerful sqaud from the 60's.

Marta was introduced to Santos fans today. She will be the main name of the side in the women's version of Copa do Brasil and Copa Libertadores. She will be on loan for 3 months from Los Angeles Sol. The Copa Libertadores will be from the 4th to the 18th of October. The Copa do Brasil will run from September 15th to December 15th.

It's hard not to laugh.

Let's be honest. If you suck at playing football/soccer but love the game, you're very likely to play videogames to make up for that. However, do you remember those days when football/soccer videogames resembled very little to the actual sport?

UOL Jogos put together a slide show with the evolution of football/soccer videogames.

More Soon.

Corinthians debuted its third jersey in the match against Barueri. Take a look:

We all know that bad refereeing in Brazil has no limits. Last weekend, the match between Corinthians and Botafogo added another example to the pile. Now, Blog do Birner started to compile that data proves that Brazilian football has a thing for yellow cards.

The blog is comparing the amount of cards given in Brazil and in the main European leagues.

On this Friday, Inter released the documentary about its 100 years. "Nada Vai Nos Separar" highlights the great moments in the history of the club its foundation, the important participation of the black community, the construction of its stadium, the three Brazilian titles and the titles of Copa Libertadores and the Club World Cup.

Brace yourselves. The world of football is about to change. Not. Ronaldo (the original one) will be a daddy once again. His wife, Bia Antony, is pregnant with their second child. You can now resume your lives, which will never be the same after this breaking news.

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.

Blog do Paulinho published a picture of what is supposed to be the new third jersey of Palmeiras by Adidas. The jersey is blue and makes reference to when Palmeiras was called "Palestra Italia".

The bass player from the UK rock band Muse appeared in a picture wearing a jersey of Fluminense, as he worked on the band's next album named "The Resistance". The jersey was given to him by a Brazilian fan last year, when Muse played in Brazil.

However, this is not the first bass player of a British band to wear a jersey of a Brazilian club.

Santa Cruz, the traditional side of Pernambuco where Rivaldo started his career, is wounded to death. The club faced relegation three times in a row, from first division in 2006 to fourth and last division of Brazilian football in 2009. This Sunday, the suffering was extended even more. The club played at home against CSA to not be eliminated in the first round of the tournament.

Who wouldn't?

Sao Paulo players entered the pitch in the match against Gremio with a shirt showing support to Ferrari's F-1 driver Felipe Massa, who had an impressive crash last Saturday. Massa, who is an well known Sao Paulo fan, is in an hospital in Hungary and may be able to leave on the weekend.

Andre Santos (left) and Christian (right) just joined Fenerbahce and introduce the 2010 kits along with another ex-Corinthins player. Forward Deivid (center) was the host.

Maurício Murad, sociologist and professor from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), shows that in the past 10 years, 42 football fans were killed in Brazil in fights around or inside stadiums. The source of his ranking are media and police reports made between 1999 and 2008. In the past 5 years, death rates increased to 5.

Estudiantes arrived in Argentina after title of Copa Libertadores. The detail is that the players had with them a flag of Atletico-MG, the main rival of Cruzeiro.

Great visual recap of all kits used by Brazil since 1914. The kit in the picture was used in 1945. The highlight goes to the red jersey used in the 1917 South American Championship.

The reason? At the time, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay played in white and there was no away jersey. Before the match Brazil - Chile, the side to wear a different color was randomly chosen, and the only jersey available was red.

It seems everyone is paying tribute to the late Michael Jackson (sounds funny, this, hun?). Brazilian players decided to honor the king of pop with embarrassing goal celebrations. The worst? The celebrations brought no luck.

Diego Tardelli, the striker from Atletico, tied the match against Barueri.

Yeah! Hugh Jackman, while visiting Brazil to promote Wolverine, stopped by Corinthians' practice (and he twittered about it) to say hi to the players and meet Ronaldo. He took home a Corinthians shirt with and X and named "Wolverine". The Australian even said he wanted to be Ronaldo when he grew up!