07.02.2012 - Santos perdió (1-2) vs Palmeiras (5º fecha), el gol del honor lo hizo Neymar que, así, llegó a los 100 goles en Primera División. De ahí, el festejo doble junto con el de su cumpleaños número 20 (05.02.2012), celebrado en un club nocturno del sur de Sao Paulo.
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39-year-old Rogério Ceni gets ready for another Paulista for São Paulo FC

The São Paulo state league gets underway on Saturday and here are the games we'll be covering up to round 7.
This year, we'll also be transmitting live midweek games but commentary will be provided by your local broadcaster.

Marcos, goalkeeper of the Brazilian team who won the World Cup 2002, announced his retirement, at age 38. He retires after a career of 20 years, playing only for one team: Palmeiras; the team informed that no other player will wear jacket #12, the one Marcos used to wear; also, there plans of building an statue of Marcos to be planted at the stadium of Palmeiras.

03.12.2011 - "Haceme un favor, llevame al estadio Centenario", pidió Carlos Bilardo. "Para qué?", se asombró el periodista Jorge da Silvera. "Para arreglar con los alcanzapelotas", tiró Bilardo, sentado en el auto junto a Carlos Pachamé y Oscar Malbernat.

There are or were, in a few cases -certain possibilities when it comes to international and the misbehavior of its participants: Gabriel Tamas might get drunk, Adrian Mutu might hit someone, Zlatan might care, the Czech national team may be found in the general vicinity of ladies of the night and someone somewhere in South America is going to get suspended for a party.

Football Team of the Decade: 1960s - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

The 1960s just might be football's golden decade. George Best, Garrincha, Pele in his prime and much much more. Recently on the Total Soccer Show podcast, we picked our starting XI from the 1960s. None of of us were alive back then, but thanks to television, YouTube and brilliant books like Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid, we were able to weigh the various options at each position and argue out the perfect starting XI to represent 10 of the most glorious years in the history of the beautiful game.

No guesses on that which Flamengo will be practicing exclusively this week in training.

Three point-blank headers on goal. No goals. Somehow. It's alarmingly more impressive in its failure than it would were a goal to actually be scored.

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Now's not a particularly good time to be a Palmeiras fan. Turns out it's not a particularly good time to be a Palmeiras player, either. Combine the two and you get the inevitable: news reports.

Displeased with the current state of affairs in Palmeirasland, some undoubtedly wonderful fans decided to attack a player as he left the official store.

Mais um jogo da Copa Sul-Americana, foi realizado no dia 11/08/2011, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro-BRA, onde jogaram os clubes, Vasco-BRA e Palmeiras-BRA.
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Leandro Pedro Vuaden

The Campeonato Brasileiro has reached the halfway stage and it once again is proving to be a tightly fought contest with six teams at the top of the standings separated by just five points.

Corinthians currently lead the way with 37 points from 19 games but they have already lost four games this season including yesterday's 2-1 defeat at the hands of Palmeiras who, as a result of the victory, maintained their sixth placed position and are not far behind the league leaders.

Popular São Paulo-based Campeonato Brasileiro Série A side Palmeiras has launched its adidas 2011 third jersey. The new shirt is inspired by the club's home kits of the 1990s when Palmeiras enjoyed one of its greatest periods of success. The team's eleven titles during this period included the 1993 and 1994 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and [.

Popular São Paulo-based Campeonato Brasileiro Série A side Palmeiras has launched its adidas 2011 third jersey. The new shirt is inspired by the club's home kits of the 1990s when Palmeiras enjoyed one of its greatest periods of success. The team's eleven titles during this period included the 1993 and 1994 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and [.

By DAVID MOSSE
Ronaldinho confirmed his good form by scoring a goal and helping set up another, but Flamengo was held to a 2-2 draw by Internacional on Sunday thanks to the brilliance of Leandro Damiao. The Internacional hitman is one of the rising stars of Brazilian soccer and was recently called up to the national team along with Ronaldinho for the upcoming friendly against Ghana in London.

By DAVID MOSSE

The last unbeaten in the Brazilian Championship fell on Thursday night, as Flamengo was thrashed at home by Atletico Goianiense. Next up is a high-profile clash with Internacional on Sunday (3 p.m.), one that Wanderley Luxemburgo hopes will represent a return to normalcy for the Rio de Janeiro giants, who suffered only their second defeat of the year and are three points behind Corinthians.

Proper sportsmanship and unwritten rules dictate...the complete opposite of this video.

Particularly considering the crushing blow dealt to the Flamengo player as the defender with ups went up...and then came crashing right down on him. Rather impressive, really, and probably rather painful.

Proper sportsmanship and unwritten rules dictate...the complete opposite of this video.

Particularly considering the crushing blow dealt to the Flamengo player as the defender with ups went up...and then came crashing right down on him. Rather impressive, really, and probably rather painful.

Delantero colombiano que juega en el Once Caldas de la Primera A colombiana, equipo con el cual debutó como profesional y ganó la Copa Libertadores del 2004. Para el 2007 fue cedido a préstamo al Paranaense de Brasil y retornó al Once Caldas. En 2008, firmó para el Bucarest de Rumania que participó en la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA.

ARQUEROSClaudio Bravo (Real Sociedad)Miguel Pinto (Atlas) Paulo Garcés (Universidad Católica)
DEFENSORESPablo Contreras (PAOK Salónica)Gonzalo Jara (West Bromwich)Waldo Ponce (Cruz Azul)Gary Medel (Sevilla)Arturo Vidal (Bayer Leverkusen) Mauricio Isla (Udinese)
VOLANTESCarlos Carmona (Atalanta)Marco Estrada (Montpellier)Gonzalo Fierro (Flamengo)Jean Beausejour (Birmingham)Rodrigo Millar (Colo Colo)Felipe Gutiérrez (Universidad Católica)Francisco Silva (Universidad Católica)Matías Fernández (Sporting de Lisboa)Jorge Valdivia (Palmeiras) Luis Jiménez (Cesena)
DELANTEROSHumberto Suazo (Monterrey)Alexis Sánchez (Udinese)Carlos Muñoz (Santiago Wanderers) Esteban Paredes (Colo Colo).

Universidad de Chile se coronó campeón de la Copa Sudamericana al golear 3-0 a Liga de Quito en el estadio Nacional de Santiago en la segunda final y partido de definición del torneo continental. El conjunto de Jorge Sampaoli confirma así su excelente momento y le da a la institución el primer título internacional de su historia.

Ney Franco

Coach Ney Franco has called up 26 players for the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia. The coach will cut five players before the squad head off to Colombia 24 July. The tournament runs from July 29 to August 20. Brazil are in Group E and take on Egypt (29 July), Austria (1 August) and Panama (4 August).

This owngoal will make the YouTube blooper reel rounds for an awful long time, as it's sort of beyond the acceptable levels of putting the ball in one's own net. It's more along the lines of tossing on the opposition's shirt for a brief moment and having an out of body experience.

But making it better is the higher ups at this television station decided this exact moment would be a convenient time to splice in some F1 action.

Top corner own goal If it wasn't for the fact that the player crossing the ball is wearing red and the player scoring the goal is in white you would have thought this was just a very good goal. It comes from the match between Brazilian sides Palmeiras and Internacional. Marcio Araujo plays for Palmeiras, [.

O técnico da seleção brasileira sub-17, Emerson Ávila, anunciou nesta segunda-feira o corte de seis jogadores para a disputa do Mundial da categoria, que começa no dia 18 de junho, no México.
Os cortados são o goleiro Matheus, do Atlético Paranaense, os defensores Ygor, do Fluminense e André, do Internacional, os meio-campistas Maycon, do Atlético Paranaense, e Lucas Severo, do Internacional, além do atacante Pedro Paulo, do Cruzeiro, que fica fora do torneio por lesão.

07.06.2011 - Corinthinas llega a la punta (provisoria) del Brasileirao después de empatar (1-1) como visitante ante el Flamengo en el estadio Engenhão (Río de Janeiro).
La decepción del resultado fla fue atenuada por la "gran" despedida de Dejan Petkovic (38) que se retiró del fútbol como titular con la camiseta rojinegra.

Tres jornadas se llevan disputadas ya de la nueva edición del Brasileirao. Los fichajes de Ronaldinho y de Thiago Neves por Flamengo o el de Liedson por Corinthians son algunos de los refuerzos más destacados para este 2011 en un siempre masivo movimiento de jugadores entre los clubes de Brasil. Si preguntan por un candidato al título, no podemos quedarnos realmente con un nombre y darlo por seguro campeón.

Much is expected of Chelsea bound Lucas Piazon

Coach Emerson Ávila has announced the 21 players that will take part in the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico between 18th June to 10 July.

Brazil are in the so-called Group of death (Group F) alongside Denmark, Australia and Ivory Coast.

By DAVID MOSSE

Ronaldinho will be forced to watch another international tournament from his living room this summer, as the former World Player of the Year failed to earn a spot in Brazil's preliminary squad for the Copa America. But Mano Menezes has left the door open for a future recall, and Ronaldinho has a great platform to show off his skills.

Four time Brazilian champions Palmeiras launched their adidas 2011 home and away kits on Tuesday in São Paulo. The green home kit is inspired by that worn by the club when it won the Copa Rio in 1951 while the white away jersey features a band across the chest and accents in Italian national colors in [.

Shocker This shocking miss comes from the Brazilian match between Cruzeiro and Palmeiras over the weekend. With Cruzeiro two-on-one with the Palmeiras keeper, the ball is unselfishly slid to Anselmo Ramon to undertake the formality of scoring the goal. Except he doesn't. Somehow he manages to delicately trickle the ball wide of the post.

We've finally reached the final WCR Soccer on Television entry of the season. And to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure there's a reason to post it this week. Oh, sure, there's some match being playing at Wembley Stadium tomorrow, but if you have any interest in that, then I'm pretty sure you already know how and where you are going to watch it.

We've finally reached the final WCR Soccer on Television entry of the season. And to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure there's a reason to post it this week. Oh, sure, there's some match being playing at Wembley Stadium tomorrow, but if you have any interest in that, then I'm pretty sure you already know how and where you are going to watch it.

Following the umpteen state championships which have filled up the first four months of the Brazilian domestic calendar the national championship, known as the Brasiliero, is back for a new season.

Defending champions Fluminense got off to a terrible start in their opening game of the campaign going down to a 2-0 reverse at home to São Paulo.

Campeonato Brasileiro 2011 A comprehensive guide is a post from: Just Football

by Rodrigo Beilfuss

As most major football leagues in Europe approach their season finale the Brazilian league rises in the horizon, and for that there's plenty of reason to smile.

I'm here to tell you why.

Fla fans broke down the gates to get to Ronaldinho when he joined the club. If he doesn't start to perform, they may do that again.

Hello and welcome to my fourth guide to Brazil's national football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro.
The 41st Brasileirão gets underway on Saturday.

Udinese wing back Pablo Armero has been linked with Liverpool this week as a potential solution to the Reds' left back problem, but who is he?
Armero is Colombian and started out life playing for America de Cali in his native country. The wing back had already played and impressed for Colombia's U17s, making him a player with tremendous promise for his club.

For someone who is decidedly not a Santo Andre fan, this is purely awesome.

For someone who is a Santo Andre fan...probably awesome, but not purely, as they lost.

Jorge Valdivia, who is pure flair as it is, decided to up his dosage a bit with some showboating. And he got his on the back end via a flying Anderson, whose intent and timing was none too subtle.

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The recent rains and flooding in Brazil had an interesting impact on the national sport, football, when a 70 minute delay to the start of a São Paulo - Palmeiras match led to bored fans turning Morumbi Stadium into a swimming pool. The match ultimately ended in a 1-1 draw.

São Paulo have put an €80 million price tag on Lucas Moura. Is he worth it? Find out for yourself by tuning in to our games

In case you missed the news, Premier Sports TV is now covering our games from the Campeonato Paulista, and later this year, the Campeonato Brasileiro.

Brazil the land of samba and sexy soccer brings us yet another crop of soccer babes in the form of the Gata do Paulistão 2011 competition. The competition runs concurrently with the Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State Championship) and features female models from each of the tournament's clubs ( including giants Corinthians, Palmeiras and Sao [.