In 2004, without a single domestic league title to their name, Cienciano scaled the peaks of South American football – and I was there
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Underrated for much of his career, flying under the radar, the stats and the glory suggests that Rafinha is one of Brazil’s great modern full-backs
When Croatia, even if somewhat surprisingly, qualified for the final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Lana took to social media to express her happiness. She posted a picture of her family…
“I can’t do any more than this, there is nothing more than this,” said Marcelo Gallardo in an intimate moment with his coaching staff during the on-field celebrations of River Plate’s epic…
In February 2018 a State Championship game in Brazil between Vitória and Bahia was abandoned after a mass brawl resulted in 10 red cards and six cautions. The melee ensued after Bahia’s Vinicius…
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…
THERE IS AN ADAGE in sport that success is easier to attain than it is to maintain. Keeping the motivation and hunger to get up every day and repeat the process once…
On Thursday Independiente del Valle will play Boca Juniors in the semi-final of the Copa Libertadores in what is by far the biggest game in their history and one of the biggest…