Articles tagged with "Brazil"
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 20th, 2006
The German superstar was hired to coach the Brazilian team from Paraná, Atlético Paranaense, but he didn’t last in the job. The sad part ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 17th, 2006
It was after the Confederations Cup (2005) that the European teams started to negotiate his departure from São Paulo FC. Great teams like Real Betis, ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 16th, 2006
Brazil has 28 players among the 8 quarter finalists in the UEFA Champions League competition. That would be an average of 3.5 player per team! ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 15th, 2006
It’s worth noting, as mentioned here, that these are the good old days of Ecuadorian international football. It’s not easy to qualify out ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 14th, 2006
No. Unfortunately he won’t come in the near future. When he was just a kid he wanted to play for his (and mine) team of ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 14th, 2006
Imagine playing football in a soft and irregular field like a big sand box. Like Master Bob said, it’s the beautiful game being played in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 14th, 2006
They've been in the finals the last three tournaments. They are the number one ranked team in the world. They have the world's ...
Posted on: Trinidad and Tobago World Cup Team Blog by Stacy-Marie Ishmael | Mar 13th, 2006
This blog describes the Warriors as the "tournament’s token comedy team."
Grr.
I agree that "Trinidad and Tobago are not the same as Brazil." To assert ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 13th, 2006
We still have a long time before the World Cup and our strikers are in need of a boost before June. While Ronaldo buries himself, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 12th, 2006
Yesterday I gave mad props to the five best kits in the World Cup. Today I turn my wrath towards the five ugliest uniforms ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 11th, 2006
Ronaldo's bad mojo is still on. That's what we call "inferno astral". Nothing works well for him and Real Madrid didn't win once again. After ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 10th, 2006
Four of the best Brazilian footballers have at some point being target for another’s words attack. I don’t think it is a healthy habit and ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 9th, 2006
I was gladly surprised by the international (and national) response from the press about Ronaldinho's merits in the game against Chelsea. I mean, everybody knows ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 9th, 2006
Platini and Pele delivered some hard thoughts about Ronaldo. Zico and Parreira came to the rescue. Now our president came forward to say that Ronaldo ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 8th, 2006
Not since Franz Beckenbauer questioned Jurgen Klinsmann earlier this week has two soccer greats from the same country had such a public rift as Ronaldo ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 7th, 2006
Ok, everybody already knows how good he is, but man I just watched Ronaldinho play for Barcelona against Chelsea in the Champions League match and ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 7th, 2006
Shawn asked me about a racist matter on Brazil’s football history and I promised to write a little post about it, but it got bigger ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 6th, 2006
One of the many cool things about a site like World Cup Blog is that we have people from all over the world writing about ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 6th, 2006
Reading some of our WCB comments (read El Pelado's) it became clear that some people do not understand why Brazil has some funny nicknames. Some ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 4th, 2006
It’s funny how this guy became such a great player in such a meteoric fashion. To be honest, here at Rio were not used to ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 3rd, 2006
We saw some incredible and interesting results from the friendlies in 1st March. I was glad to see Italy win and worried to see Argentina ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 2nd, 2006
I'm a big fan of the Socceroos and even I think hell will freeze over before Australia beat Brazil. But for those who are ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 1st, 2006
The world's top ranked team defeated Russia 1-0 in a friendly played in sub-arctic conditions in Moscow. To see how the game unfolded, check ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 1st, 2006
I was thinking about writing during our friendly game when I saw Shawn's post. Well let's see if I can do this work. I won't ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 1st, 2006
The carnival here begins on a Friday and goes on until Tuesday. There is party on the streets all the time in what we call ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 1st, 2006
Here is a listing of Internet streams for today's slate of friendlies. As is always the case, these things vary in quality and dependability ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 1st, 2006
Just because our eyes are bloodshot from staring at the 15 games we are watching simultaneously today doesn't mean that we don't have the vision ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Feb 28th, 2006
I knew already that Parreira is very competent and a veteran when it comes to World Cup competitions. He was there in 1994 to get ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Feb 28th, 2006
It was very amusing to see the two football heroes enjoying the Brazilian carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Both footballers were at a very famous ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Feb 27th, 2006
He is the man. The #1. Ronaldinho has been awarded the FIFA World Player of the Year award twice (2004-2005) and once as the European ...
