Brazil is back on the top of the Fifa Ranking. We’ve been there for so long that it felt awkward some times. And if you think I’m “full of it” go check our “line” at the Fifa “Compare Teams” page. It really is brutal.
Even so, everyday I see some football “expert” talking about the [...]

Dunga is testing a striking number of players during these last friendly matches. Luis Paulo wrote in his ‘Bread and Circus’ text something that I thought right after CBF announced Parreira’s replacement: give the people a remedy for the immediate pain. Bring a fierce and audacious man to replace the slow moron that insisted with [...]

This is the newest CBF’s policy. If the people are hungry, give them entertainment. That’s why they hired Dunga as a coach and capped a different team to play against Norway.

The World Cup has ended with a bitter taste for Brazilians. We saw many teams being sent home early but in most cases their supporters could be in some way proud of their team. Take the Japanese fans, for an example. Their team did nothing but you could see them running and trying. They did [...]

After the failure on the quarter finals, the name calling and press whining has begun. Everybody’s sad, everybody wants to find the culprit for the defeat, and there is no shortage of scapegoats. Watching TV yesterday after the game was physically painful, as everybody had their own theory for the defeat and none of them [...]

We played nothing! What was Parreira thinking??? Roberto Carlos? Cafu? Brazil didn’t play. The players were merely watching the game. We lost against a poor side. Shame on us, shame on Parreira, shame on Ronaldinho. Congrats to Zidane. Played well. No more Parreira! He played that ugly style in 1994 and he avoided our attack [...]

So it ends (for real this time). Brazil is clearly outplayed by France, and loses 1-0. The only defence the French goalkeeper had to do was a couple of minutes before the end of the match.
Brazil started the match pretty well, but lowered the tempo shortly thereafter and allowed France to literally dance on the [...]

Breaking news! Just when I start to think Parreira is being too conservative, he surprises everybody: he has just told the lineup for the France game to the press (in advance!), and he has made some serious changes to the offensive lineup. He has removed Adriano, moved Ronaldinho Gaúcho to his position, and put Juninho [...]

Brazil plays the World Cup quarterfinals against France in less than 7 hours. See the preview preview here, and then follow the liveblog here.
Brazil started a bit slowly on the World Cup - winning all matches, but facing hard criticism because it failed to reach the level of performance expected by the media and the [...]

Brazil plays against France tomorrow, as a mini-revival of the 1998 World Cup Finals, when Zidane was the team’s head in Brazil’s defeat to France by 3-0. Pelé, slightly controversial as usual, bets on a French victory, and makes Roberto Carlos pretty upset.
Well, despite the general “revenge for 1998!” feeling going on right now among [...]