League Focus: Brasileirão 2013 Season Review
by Jack Lang
at Perşembe, Ara 12 2013 16:55
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...
Player Focus: Brazilian Wildcards Who Could Play Their Way into World Cup Contention
by Jack Lang
at Salı, Eki 22 2013 14:35
Team Focus: Second Would Still be a Major Achievement for Improving Botafogo
by Jack Lang
at Cuma, Eyl 20 2013 11:14
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...
Player Focus: Heavyweight Walter Back Among the Goals at Goiás
by Jack Lang
at Perşembe, Ağu 22 2013 14:50
Player Focus: Five Players Proving Their True Worth in Brazil
by Jack Lang
at Çarşamba, Ağu 7 2013 11:45
Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim
by Jack Lang
at Çarşamba, Tem 31 2013 12:31
Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks
by Jack Lang
at Cumartesi, Tem 20 2013 09:15
Player Focus: Ageless Alex Flourishing with Coritiba
by Jack Lang
at Çarşamba, Tem 10 2013 12:00
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...
Player Focus: Unlikely Heroes Lead Goalscoring Charts in Brazil
by Jack Lang
at Çarşamba, Haz 12 2013 16:55
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...
Player Focus: Messi's Cousin Biancucchi Steps Up for Vitória
by Jack Lang
at Çarşamba, Haz 5 2013 12:58
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 ...