The Brazillians have long been regarded as the Kings of football, widely considered the most stylish, attractive and best football team in the world.

The samba stars have produced a long line of brilliant individuals: Pele, Zico, Romario, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, the list goes on.

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For all you football fans out there, Saturday will be an important date to mark on your calendars. Once again it will be a remake of the mouth-watering 2002 world cup quaterfinal match between England and Brazil.

That day Brazil prevailed 2-1 thanks to the ingenuity of Ronaldinho and company.

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So, as is typical with AEK, we blow an early 1-0 lead and end up with a draw (today, the match against PAS, the Cup Final, the match with BATE).

My stream today was poor quality, so I can't comment as much as I could have. But basically what we saw throughout the match was that we had many chances, yet we only scored one of them.

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Why did Eric Cantona start wearing his collar up? Which player got so drunk after a title-winning party he wet himself in a taxi? Why did Andrew Cole and Teddy Sheringham fall out? And which international star burnt his wedding tackle on a scalding hot tea urn?

Glory Glory!

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The race for this year's coveted ballon d'or award will be between two of football's stellar stars. Messi and Ronaldo will again share a podium when the fabulous gala award ceremony takes place later on this year. The question on everyones mind however is which of these two players will be named Europe's finest.

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Their football isn't as super as in the days of Rivaldo and co, but Depor's cut-price squad is again surprising Spain's big boys.
Deportivo La Coruña grind their way back to where they once belonged. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex tracks talented attacking midfielder.

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Werder Bremen's sought-after midfielder Mesut Ozil has revealed it would be his dream to one day join Barcelona.

The 20-year-old Germany international's comments are likely to draw the attention of the Catalan club with a number of high-profile European teams reportedly interested in securing his services.

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These guys may be nearer to drawing their pensions than most, but boy they still have the power to amaze.

We've done the young whippersnappers and we've done the ode to Britain the 25 and over squad, so it's time to pay homage to experienced, the wily, the cunning: the Viagra crowd.

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PVC, the great football researcher, proves with numbers in his blog that Luis Fabiano is better than Ronaldo. When it comes to the national team, the Fabuloso has a better goal average than the Corinthians forward. More than that, he is already the 15th top scorer in the history of the national team (true that Ronaldo is the second, just behind Pele).

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After only four months in charge of Uzbekistan side FC Bunyodkor, Luis Felipe Scolari is once again facing the sack. Despite earning an astonishing £230,000 a week as head coach of the ambitious side; Scolari has become unstuck once again.
There are parallels to be drawn with his infamous tenure at Chelsea which ended in Feburary 2009.

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The site Futebol Finance produced a list of the top 25 salaries of Brazilian footballers around the world. The surprise? The list has a number of players who are veterans or have not produced much in recent seasons. That shows us that even in football, the brand is what counts. What is also scary about the list?

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Every year the release of Serie A salaries is met with great anticipation and often little surprise. This year, there was plenty of surprise to go around. With Kaka & Zlatan off to the lowered tax rates of Spain, the top spot was up for grabs and it went to Jose Mourinho, whose main improvement [...] Click to continue reading...

At age 22, Zinedine Zidane was playing in the Intertoto Cup with Bordeaux. At that same age, Éric Cantona had just got a move from Auxerre to Marseille. Rivaldo had just moved from Corinthians to cross-town rivals Palmeiras in São Paulo.

With the money involved in today's game and globalized scouting networks, such players would already have been with one of the European giants before they had the chance to establish themselves in their local teams.

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Anyone who watched World Cup 2002 will remember this inexcusable piece of play-acting from Brazilian maestro Rivaldo.
Turkey defender Hakan Unsal was sent-off as a result of the incident, which makes Rivaldo's histrionics even worse.
Luis Felipe Scolari, who was managing Brazil at the time, offered this lame interpretation of the incident:
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It's been a busy week at the AEK office.Not one,but two signings,both,which will benefit the team immensely.Kristian Nesmith,20 yo Hungarian has joined on loan from Liverpool(part of the Kyriakos deal).A striker with an "eye" for goal are the early reports.The other and possibly the most exciting is Roger Guirero,a 27 yo Brazilian who's been playing for Legia Waraw for the past 3 years and who now has dual citizenship and represented Poland.

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How can one undo all the good will and sympathies from a near career ending injury within seconds? Do what Eduardo did against Celtic yesterday. From an object of near universal sympathy, he becomes an object of near universal shame and derision. And with this, we need some way of compiling the worst of the worst. 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 Societ� 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...

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.

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O Bunyodkor treinado por Luiz Felipe Scolari perdeu este fim-de-semana a final da Taça do Uzbequistão ante o rival Pakhtakor, por 0-1. Com o seu tradicional mau perder, o brasileiro apontou o dedo ao árbitro na hora da derrota. No campeonato, o Bunyodkor soma 17 vitórias em 17 jogos, com 52 golos marcados e cinco sofridos, o que dá para perceber a competitividade da liga. Click to continue reading...

This time last year The Guardian writers predicted that after winning the Premiership and European Cup double, Manchester United would give up their title to Chelsea. The reasons were obvious, apparently, but I disagreed with every single one.

First they argued that if Chelsea came within a few points of us that season, with a World Cup winning manager in charge they were certain to improve.

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The saga of what will happen with Cameroon goal assassin Samuel Eto'o is finally over. Eto'o is headed to Inter Milan where he will pair up with Diego Milito to form the most devastating strike duo the Nerazzurri has had in 10-15 years. As a Barca fan, I am thoroughly disappointed and upset. Why? Click to continue reading...

The saga of what will happen with Cameroon goal assassin Samuel Eto'o is finally over. Eto'o is headed to Inter Milan where he will pair up with Diego Milito to form the most devastating strike duo the Nerazzurri has had in 10-15 years. As a Barca fan, I am thoroughly disappointed and upset. Why? Click to continue reading...

Samuel Eto'o now is in the company of Hristo Stoichkov, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and a host of others that were superstars while wearing the blaugrana who ended up shunned and escorted out the back door of the Nou Camp. Eto'o's was among one of the more despicable ones. He wasn't allowed into the . Click to continue reading...

Estar leyendo las Memorias de don Alfredo Di Stéfano y ver la más que probable salida del Barça de Samuel Eto'o me han empujado a escribir esta entrada.
Mucho se ha hablado en los últimos años de las despedidas de grandes ídolos de la afición "blaugrana". Estos jugadores, por un cosa u otra no han tenido quizás la salida deseada o incluso la merecida por sus méritos contraídos en el campo. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson - Denis Law

ALEX FERGUSON said: "Denis was my hero. I idolised him. When I first met him I was so excited. It was at a game in Paris, he had played in the first half and we went for a cup of tea afterwards. I thought, 'This is it, I've made it!'

"He epitomised everything a Scotsman is about.

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This had the potential to be one of those epic quotes shoved in the faces of Barcelona's most despised Clasico rivals for years and years on end. Joan Laporta so swiftly hurtling the gavel down and declaring his Cules the superior. "We make Ballon d'Or winners and others have to buy them." It even sounds sexier in [. Click to continue reading...

Here is a short guide to help you buy the best and most expensive player in the world. I know some of the steps here will be a little hard to achieve for smaller clubs but hey, let's keep it on the funny side.
1. Be a big football club. I'm sure Manchester City or that club from Uzbekistan that wanted Eto'o and also have Rivaldo would have paid even more to have C. Click to continue reading...

"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." (Newton's Third Law)

Flashback to the summer of 2000 and in the wake of Florentino Perez's first dramatic ascension to Real Madrid's presidency, Barcelona was prized away from the heart and soul of their post-Cruyff side, Luis Figo.

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If you're in the crowd that considers diving the biggest evil in world football, then the video above collects some of the worst offenders ever seen and will probably make you want to put a fist through your computer screen. But if you're in the crowd that finds blatant - and blatantly unconvincing -dives to be [. Click to continue reading...

Any chance that this Confederations Cup victory was anything but business as usual for the Seleccao should be dispelled. The USA pushed them very hard. The win is being compared to some of the great all time comebacks in Brazil's storied footballing history.

1958 World Cup: Sweden lead 1-0 through Liedholm just 3 minutes into the game.

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Polónia/Brasil - Voleibol - Liga Mundial
Ontem na Sport TV1, espectacular jogo de voleibol, realizado em Lodz, perante cerca de 11.500 espectadores. Excelentes praticantes de ambas as equipas com realce para o brasileiros provavelmente a melhor equipa mundial da actualidade. Vitória do Brasil por 3/0 com destaque para Rivaldo, Giba, Murilo, Rodrigão, Lucas, entre outros, todos eles de grande classe. Click to continue reading...

Check out this piece of cheating from Mohammed Gassid, the Iraq goalkeeper, in the Spain v Iraq game last night.
After gathering the ball from a set piece header, he tries to make out that the on-rushing Sergio Ramos has kicked his face as he lept over him.
Replays show that no contact was made what so ever, with Gassid rolling around on the ground clutching his face whilst Ramos looks bemused as to what has just happened. 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 Societ� 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...

Guus Hiddink returns to Russia with strong indications of a full future Chelsea role. Abramovich could not be in a better position with such options. If Ancelotti fails, it sets up Hiddink's return after World Cup duty is over.

Big Phil in contrast takes up the Bunyodkor job. He could have gone to Angola.

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Guus Hiddink returns to Russia with strong indications of a full future Chelsea role. Abramovich could not be in a better position with such options. If Ancelotti fails, it sets up Hiddink's return after World Cup duty is over.

Big Phil in contrast takes up the Bunyodkor job. He could have gone to Angola.

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