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League Focus: Brasileirão 2013 Season Review

by Jack Lang at Perşembe, Ara 12 2013 16:55
League Focus: Brasileirão 2013 Season Review As any player or fan will tell you, the Campeonato Brasileiro is both a marathon and a sprint. After 38 rounds of action, crammed into five-and-a-half months, we reached the end of the road at the weekend.Things didn’t exactly go smoothly. The match between Atlético Paranaense and releg...
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Player Focus: Brazilian Wildcards Who Could Play Their Way into World Cup Contention

by Jack Lang at Salı, Eki 22 2013 14:35
Player Focus: Brazilian Wildcards Who Could Play Their Way into World Cup Contention By now, Luiz Felipe Scolari has already identified most of the players who – barring injury or a drastic loss of form – will represent Brazil at next summer’s World Cup. The base of the squad that performed so well at the Confederations Cup will be maintained, with Felipão t...
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Team Focus: Second Would Still be a Major Achievement for Improving Botafogo

by Jack Lang at Cuma, Eyl 20 2013 11:14
Team Focus: Second Would Still be a Major Achievement for Improving Botafogo The Brazilian championship used to be decided by a final. Every season ended with the kind of play-off system that would be immediately familiar to fans of American sports, meaning a team that finished as low as eighth in the actual league stage could walk away with the title.That system lasted unti...
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Player Focus: Heavyweight Walter Back Among the Goals at Goiás

by Jack Lang at Perşembe, Ağu 22 2013 14:50
Player Focus: Heavyweight Walter Back Among the Goals at Goiás There is a poem engraved on the Statue of Liberty that sounds out a stirring welcome to immigrants to the USA. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” reads its most quoted line (and who am I to avoid the beaten path?). If the Campeonato Brasileiro...
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Player Focus: Five Players Proving Their True Worth in Brazil

by Jack Lang at Çarşamba, Ağu 7 2013 11:45
Player Focus: Five Players Proving Their True Worth in Brazil While storied veterans like Alex and Juninho Pernambucano continue to boost their legacies in Série A, the 2013 season has also provided ample opportunity for those who have taken wrong turns to get their careers back on track. Here are five players who have overcome adversity to impress in t...
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Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim

by Jack Lang at Çarşamba, Tem 31 2013 12:31
Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim They may not like it on the bronze beaches of Rio, in São Paulo’s office blocks and in the proud alehouses of Porto Alegre, but Brazilian football has a new epicentre. Since the turn of the year, Belo Horizonte has become the place to be on planet futebol.First there was the reopening o...
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Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks

by Jack Lang at Cumartesi, Tem 20 2013 09:15
Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. The night is darkest before the dawn and all that. The problem for fans of São Paulo FC is that it's only ten past midnight and things are already unbearably bad.On Wednesday evening the Tricolor lost 2-0 to Corinthians in the second ...
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Player Focus: Ageless Alex Flourishing with Coritiba

by Jack Lang at Çarşamba, Tem 10 2013 12:00
Player Focus: Ageless Alex Flourishing with Coritiba The Campeonato Brasileiro has a rather different relationship with age than most leagues. In Europe, the norm is that most players are in what we would consider the middle years of a playing career - around 25 to 30, say. The older or younger you go, the fewer players there are. The age/players grap...
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Player Focus: Unlikely Heroes Lead Goalscoring Charts in Brazil

by Jack Lang at Çarşamba, Haz 12 2013 16:55
Player Focus: Unlikely Heroes Lead Goalscoring Charts in Brazil The Brazilian football calendar is an infuriating beast. At the start of the year the state championships test the patience of even the most saintly fans, ambling on for five months despite dwindling interest levels, vast gulfs in quality between sides and pitches that make your local park look like...
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Player Focus: Messi's Cousin Biancucchi Steps Up for Vitória

by Jack Lang at Çarşamba, Haz 5 2013 12:58
Player Focus: Messi's Cousin Biancucchi Steps Up for Vitória It's not easy growing up in someone else's shadow. Maybe you have a brother who is just stupidly good at piano and drags your whole family along to bi-weekly shows and performs at every social event and generally makes your life a Chopin-heavy hell. It could be your younger sister who, without even ...
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