It’s a tournament forgotten to time, sandwiched between France’s epic glories in 1998 and 2000, and just three years before Brazil won the 2002 World Cup, but the 1999 Copa América was…
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Largely famous for his audacious ‘deal dribble’, Kerlon was actually a talented footballer in his own right. So why did his career flounder?
Flying down the wing, the ball at the end of his toe, movement in his hips and flair in his soul, Denílson was the quintessential Brazilian winger. Any who had the pleasure…
This feature is part of Duology One was an unfathomably gifted prodigee, a PSV Eindhoven graduate turned timeless Barcelona hero; a Brazilian wonder and undisputed icon to a generation of admirers of…
This feature is part of Duology Considering the sheer size of Brazil — the fifth largest country in the world — it’s surprising just how close the birthplaces of Roberto Carlos da…
In these days of expanded World Cups, bloated Champions League competitions and saturated television coverage, most football aficionados are used to seeing regular clashes between the world’s current top two footballers, Cristiano…
I recently read an article by a writer and translator who I admire in which he laments how, in his eyes, “as a result of rapidly accelerating globalisation, we are moving toward…
Achieving something that the politicians couldn’t, Ayrton Senna and Brazil’s football team offered hopes and dreams to the masses in a beleaguered nation
Football is not wanting of phenomena. There have been phenomenal players, phenomenal tricks, goals, passes, plays – we have seen it all. Phenomenal teams have packed stadiums throughout history, leaving masses numbering…
Brazil, boasting the world’s best playmaker in Zico, the enigmatic Sócrates, Éder, Falcão and Toninho Cerezo – there may never be a greater midfield
August 2011. Football in Belo Horizonte struggles to keep its track. Cruzeiro were prematurely eliminated from Copa Libertadores, losing to Once Caldas, and Cuca, their manager, was duly sacked. On the other side…
The 17-year-old Brazilian wunderkind sealed the game in the final minute, heading home to give O Seleção its maiden World Cup win in 1958, eight years after the misery at the Maracanã. Pelé was…
The date is 25 August 2000. As Real Madrid and Galatasaray prepared to square off for the UEFA Super Cup crown in Monaco, the eyes of the footballing world are rested squarely…
HAVE YOU HEARD the story of Sir Michael Caine and the Brazilian footballer? Understandably, it sounds ludicrous. Can you really picture Neymar hanging out with Alfred or Dani Alves dancing with Harry…
SÃO PAULO, NOVEMBER 2017. There is, it’s fair to say, never a meaningless encounter between Corinthians and Palmeiras. But all clássicos are not created equal. Sometimes it matters a little bit more; sometimes…
THERE IS NO TELLING how and when the Brazil national football team would have been formed if it hadn’t been for Exeter City Football Club. It was July 1914, just two weeks before…
“YOU, PLAYERS, who in less than a few hours will be hailed as champions by millions of compatriots,” the mayor of Rio de Janeiro proclaimed with boundless pride as he passionately addressed…
“I still think about Middlesbrough and the times I had there all the time,” said Juninho Paulista. Ask any Boro fan and they’ll tell you the same