The first fruits of Ben Olsen's South American trip may have just arrived, as multiple reports out of Brazil quote EC Bahia's coach Paulo Angioni as saying that 20 year old striker Rafael Souza will go on a season long loan to D.C. United. Rafael has played in 46 games for EC Bahia, who finished 14th in the Brazilian Serie A last season, and he has scored 10 goals.
When I first saw this rumor floated, I considered it a ridiculous piece of fun, something about which D.C. United fans could dream with the new money that is in the club without any chance of it ever happening. And after reading all of these stories, they seem to reference each other as sources and trade in vagaries.
While it seems ridiculous, rumors continue to swirl about D.C. United's interest in Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano.
Reports out of Brazil, first tweeted by Phil Schoen, are that MLS is negotiating with Sao Paolo over the acquisition of forward Luis Fabiano. While currently at Sao Paolo, he also played in 149 matches for Sevilla of La Liga, scoring 72 goals; he also has earned 44 caps for the Brazilian National Team, with 28 goals.
Reports out of Brazil, first tweeted by Phil Schoen, are that MLS is negotiating with Sao Paolo over the acquisition of forward Luis Fabiano. While currently at Sao Paolo, he also played in 149 matches for Sevilla of La Liga, scoring 72 goals; he also has earned 44 caps for the Brazilian National Team, with 28 goals.
Perhaps Luis Fabiano is a not quite Darius Vassell. Perhaps Brazil is a tiny bit football mad.
Perhaps Sao Paulo has reason to celebrate.
But "tens of thousands"? For Luis Fabiano? A very, very good player, but he's not quite the
creme de la creme of the footballing crop. Not Ronaldinho, not Ronaldo, not really.
On Friday night it was revealed that Luis Fabiano has returned to Brazil with Sao Paulo, on a
four year deal, for a fee of 7.6 million euros. This seems like a bargain for a player with such
class.
It only makes you wonder why Tottenham did not take a gamble on this player in January?
El Sevilla ha confirmado esta noche el traspaso del delantero brasileño Luis Fabiano, que
deja la entidad nervionense por unos ocho millones de euros y tras casi seis temporadas, para jugar
en su paÃs natal, en el Sao Paulo.
FC Porto fans breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday night as the club lost at home in the second
leg of the Europa League 1-0 to Sevilla but due to a first leg win of 2-1 in Spain advance to the
Round of 16.Luis Fabiano gave the visitors hope when scored the only goal of the game against his
former club in the 71st minute but that was all the Spanish club could muster in this encounter.
MADRID, Spain — Sevilla were held to a 0-0 draw in the Andalusian derby with bottom side Malaga
on Sunday and lost further ground in the hunt for a European place. It has been a disappointing
campaign for Sevilla who have just one win from their last four matches and are six points off a
[...]
With the league title slipping away from Real Madrid's hands, their two cup competitions, the
UEFA Champions League and the Copa del Rey, could be the tournaments that they can realistically
expect to win. Â Real can stamp its name in the final of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday night if
they can navigate a more than tricky second leg tie against the current holders of the cup,
Sevilla.
BARCELONA, Spain — Karim Benzema led Real Madrid to a 1-0 win at Sevilla before Barcelona rolled
over Almeria 5-0 in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. Benzema, the much-questioned
France striker, answered his critics with a valuable away goal in the 17th minute of the first-leg
match at Sanchez Pizjuan stadium.
Barcelona equalled their club record of 14 successive Liga victories with a 3-0 triumph against
Racing Santander on a night when LuÃs Fabiano starred for Sevilla at home to Levante.
Barca's 28-match unbeaten run in all competitions came to end when they lost the second leg of
their Copa del Rey quarter-final to Real Betis in midweek, were ahead inside 90 seconds through
Pedro's sixth goal of 2011.
Buena campaña de publicidad que hicieron en la India, para demostrar que puedes cambiar de
compañÃa telefónica y conservar el mismo numero.
Las imágenes de Lionel Messi con la playera de Brasil y su numero 10,Cristiano Ronaldo con la
de Argentina y el numero 7, Luis Fabiano con la de Portugal y su numero 9 ya le dieron la vuelta al
mundo.
Brazil coach Mano Menezes has arrived in Argentina ahead of the Copa America looking to give the
Seleçao a new identity,and the fans a reason to cheer, after the bitter disappointment of
last year's World Cup.
Having taken over from Dunga in August, Menezes is heading into his first tournament as national
coach with little doubt the next three and a half weeks will be taken seriously.
Hasta cierto punto estoy un tanto tranquilo, aunque es cierto que ya pasó una semana del Draft
2012 y aún no se ha concretado la llegada de un nuevo ariete felino. Tengo la plena confianza en
mi directiva de que algo bueno van a conseguir, como dicen por ahà "Si el rÃo suena es por que
agua lleva" y vaya que ha sonado y muy fuerte.
Parabens and Congratulations to AC Milan ace, Thiago
Silva for winning the Samba d'Or, an award given out by our
amigos over at SambaFoot! The award recognizes the 'Best Brazilian Footballer in
Europe' and previous winners have included Maicon, Luis Fabiano
and Kaka.
Gazzetta dello Sport Everyone is buying Inter: Pazzini or Matri preferred to Luis Fabiano Milan:
Van Bommel has arrived and will be on the field. Now for the fullback. Now it's time for a
full-back Muntari is leaving, today there is Kharja Sampdoria meet Cassano again Roma: the
agreement in the USA is close Everything appears to be resolved with the consortium lead by the
Italian-American.
Former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy today signed for La Liga outfit Malaga. van
Nistelrooy was available on a free transfer following the expiration of his contract at German club
Hamburg, and despite rumors linking him with a move back to the Premier League, the Dutch
international chose to return to Spain.
SPANISH FOOTBALL action tonight with three games of Round 22 in the Spanish League after the other
7 were all played last night. Here are brief summaries of the matches, results & the scorers.
Sevilla FC player Luis Fabiano against Malaga defender Demichelis SEVILLA FC drew 0 - 0 against
MALAGA in a "Southern Spain" derby that showed more than anything else that Sevilla is not firing
on all
Like the dirty flirts they are, Tottenham have reportedly stumped up the cash to trigger Sergio
Aguero's 'buy-out clause', only to pull out of the deal just as the juice was beginning to
flow.
According to Sky Sports News, Spurs submitted a club-record £38.
La Liga Lowdown, Jornada 20: Málaga – new manager, new players, same old problems is a post
from: Just Football
Until recently, no one really paid too much attention to south coast side
Málaga. They're your typical ‘yo-yo' club, bouncing between the top two tiers
of Spanish football, the Primera and Segunda División.
El Clásico is coming to the Copa del Rey as Barcelona will meet Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey
final for the first time in 21 years. The last time they met was in 1990 and Barcelona won 2-0.
Jose Mourinho will be hoping that history does not repeat itself! This years final will come four
days after the two sides meet in the Spanish league.
El Clásico is coming to the Copa del Rey as Barcelona will meet Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey
final for the first time in 21 years. The last time they met was in 1990 and Barcelona won 2-0.
Jose Mourinho will be hoping that history does not repeat itself! This years final will come four
days after the two sides meet in the Spanish league.
Surely Septic Blatter will come to their senses and bring video technology into
the game , especially goal-line technology after yet another controversial goal wasn't given to
Seville striker Luis Fabiano against Real Madrid last night.
In which Real Madrid defender Raul Albiol uses every fibre of his physical being to prevent
Sevilla striker Luis Fabiano's goal-bound effort from trundling across the line...
What's 'by the skin of your teeth' in Spanish?
For the record, Madrid eventually ran out as 1-0 winners thanks to a nifty goal from Karim
Benzema.
Real Madrid and Barcelona are on a collision course in the Copa del Rey as they both won the
first leg of their semifinals tonight. Real Madrid beat holders Sevilla 1-0 while Barcelona rolled
over Almeria 5-0.
The hero once for Madrid again was Karim Benzema, who answered his critics with a valuable away
goal in the 17th minute.
In a Copa del Rey match marred by Iker Casillas being hit with a projectile from the stands and
a controversial no-goal call on a shot by Luis Fabiano, Karim Benzema delivered an excellent
individual effort to give Real Madrid a 1-0 lead over Sevilla heading into the second leg of their
semifinal tie:
It didn't take long for Tigre's Copa Sudamericana match against Sao Paulo to degenerate into nonsense. Just 13 minutes into the match, there was already one sloppy collision too many, prompting a standoff. In the midst of this, Sao Paulo leading scorer Luis Fabiano tried to keep Tigre's Alejandro Donatti away from his teammate.
Está por demás decir que el fútbol de estufa ya inició. Desde antes que terminara al
liguilla, muchos ya decÃan que Ayala y Mancilla estaban prácticamente fuera del equipo, pero eso
jamás se concretó (afortunadamente)
Ya se colocan diferentes nombres en Tigres como "El Japo" RodrÃguez, Emmanuel Villa, Giovanni
Moreno e incluso Luis Fabiano.
Zoran Lucic ist Grafikdesigner und absoluter Fussballfan. Seine beiden Leidenschaften hat er vor
einiger Zeit verbunden und sich an ein Projekt mit dem Namen „Sucker for Soccer" gemacht. Für
das Projekt hat er große und bekannte Spielerpersönlichkeiten aus vergangener und aktueller Zeit
geschickt in Szene gesetzt.
One of the great soccer tournaments in the world kicks off Friday as Brazil will attempt to win
its third straight Copa America title. The world's oldest continental tournament, the Copa was
first staged in Argentina in 1916 and has been graced by some of the greatest players in the
game
The 2011 might be the most formidable Copa ever played due to the strength in depth of the South
American national teams.
