Brazilian League/Football Official Thread

[FF7]

Who do you think will win this year?
I think that Cruzeiro again.!!

 

[Lean]

The major favourites to win it are Santos and Cruzeiro. São Caetano and São Paulo have a decent outside chance at winning it, although i consider it very hard. Any other team that wins it, and it will be a upset.

 

[FF7]

Sao Paulo and Santos are also favourites to me
And maybe an underdog...

 

[Lean]

Like i said, Santos and Cruzeiro are the major favourites. I dont really consider São Paulo that much of a favourite, because i still dont see anything brilliant in that team, it doesnt look like a squad of champions. They're doing well in Libertadores, but i would still pick São Caetano over them. They have Luis Fabiano, Rogerio Ceni and that's all. The rest are good/average players at most.

The defense is extremely mediocre, and their attack is not that great, they still dont make up for the terrible defense. Luis Fabiano looks good now, but when São Paulo cant count on him, they're pretty much dead. And the same Luis Fabiano has a tendency to screw up and get sent off in a lot of games when things arent going his way.

 

[Paulo Da Silva]

i though Sao Paulo were a good team.
They have some pretty good players
Gustavo Nery
Rogerio Ceni
Diego Tardelli
lui Fabiano
Ricardinho

 

[FF7]

SAo paulo is a good team
but sometimes the just don't play well

 

[Lean]

Yeah. When it really matters.

 

[Vinnie Jones]

What about Fábio Simplício? Do you guys think he is overrated?

 

[Lean]

I dont think much of him. He's a good player, that's all. Gives 100%, but i dont think he will become a great footballer.

 

[WilliamFAlmeida]

Brazilian cup games this week!
Hopefully Palmeiras can go to the finals

 

[BRAZIL'S_#9]

And the Brasileiro kicks off-

After coming back from Serie-B, Botafogo got whooped by Goias who is now at lead. Palmeiras, ex Serie-B, couldn't get out of a 0-0 score against Atletico MG. Santos got beat by Parana and Cruzeiro won their game against Juventude 2-1. And Corithinans, continuing their bad form, lost to Ponte Preta 3-2. Sao Paulo, playing with 9 men since the 15th minute of the second half, struggled to beat Atletico PR with a goal in the 43rd minute of the second half by Gustavo Nery.

Here are the results:

16h Botafogo 1 x 4 Goiás; Caio Martins Niterói
16h Figueirense 1 x 0 Internacional; Orlando Scarpelli Florianópolis
16h São Caetano 1 x 0 Vitória; Anacleto Campanella São Caetano
18h Cruzeiro 2 x 1 Juventude; Mineirão Belo Horizonte
18h Palmeiras 0 x 0 Atlético-MG; Parque Antárctica São Paulo
21h45 Grêmio 0 x 0 Flamengo; Olímpico Porto Alegre
21h45 Ponte Preta 3 x 2 Corinthians; Moisés Lucarelli Campinas
21h45 Paraná 3 x 2 Santos; Pinheirão Curitiba


20h30 Coritiba 1 x 0 Guarani; Couto Pereira Curitiba
20h30 Vasco 0 x 1 Criciúma; São Januário Rio de Janeiro
20h30 Paysandu 3 x 3 Fluminense; Mangueirão Belém
20h30 São Paulo 1 x 0 Atlético-PR; Morumbi São Paulo

TIME PG J V E D GP GC SG
1 Goiás 3 1 1 0 0 4 1 3
2 Paraná 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1
2 Ponte Preta 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1
4 Cruzeiro 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1
5 Coritiba 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
5 Criciúma 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
5 Figueirense 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
5 São Caetano 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
5 São Paulo 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
10 Fluminense 1 1 0 1 0 3 3 0
10 Paysandu 1 1 0 1 0 3 3 0
12 Atlético-MG 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
13 Flamengo 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
14 Grêmio 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
15 Palmeiras 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
16 Corinthians 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1
16 Santos 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1
18 Juventude 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1
19 Atlético-PR 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1
19 Guarani 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1
19 Internacional 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1
19 Vasco 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1
19 Vitória 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1
24 Botafogo 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3


And a player already has goal count of 4 eventhough it was the first game, Alex dias from Goias put in all the goals to beat the newly promoted Botafogo.


TOTAL Goals: 29
4 GOLS
Goiás Alex

2 GOLS
Cruzeiro Dudu

Fluminense Ramón

Paysandu Selmir

1 GOL
Botafogo João Carlos

Corinthians Coelho

Coritiba Jucemar

Criciúma Rafael

Figueirense Sérgio Manoel

Fluminense Romário

Juventude Neto

Paraná Carlinhos, Chokito, Galvão

Paysandu Rogério Souza

PontePreta Marcus Vinícius, Roger, Weldon

Santos Léo, Robinho

SãoCaetano Somália

SãoPaulo Gustavo Nery

 

[BRAZIL'S_#9]

To solve their problems, Corinthians is set to bring Ricardinho back to the squad. He was part of the squad back when they won the club World Cup. Back then Corinthians had a super team and is set to bring their midfield back. Ricardinho was with Middlesbrought but never got to play, so he decided to leave the club and is yet with no team.

link (portuguese): http://www.gazetaesportiva.net/ge_noticias/bin/noticia.php?chid=111&nwid=116879

 

[Daniel David]

Fourth round of the league gone; Corinthians got trashed 4-0 by archi-rivals Palmeiras (just promoted from division 2) . Things are now really bad to them - it´s the second 4-0 in a week! - and the supporters are very angry... There was also the clash between São Paulo and Rio champions, Flamengo and São Caetano; balanced 1-1. Flamengo played somewhat better (but wasted waay to many chances at 1st half), and seems to be the Rio team with best potential now. Santos and Cruzeiro was another important game, ending 3-1 to Cruzeiro (not well informed about this, but Santos is not in good form nowadays).

 

[Lennon]

How is Tavarelli doing at Gremio?

 

[WilliamFAlmeida]

Palmeiras KILLED corinthians!

They shouldve been relegated!
MAncha Verde!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[WilliamFAlmeida]

BTW Sweet sig lennon!
And the Palmerias game was on Fox sports world

 

[Daniel David]

This is not the day for clubs in full whites... Santos 0 - 4 Palmeiras at home. This would be unbelievable two months ago. Just as Real, Santos really has gone downhill. And they think that they can solve their problems with the fool Luxemburgo, the flop Ricardinho and now (just heard on TV)...Roque Júnior! LMAO! .

 

[Lean]

Unbelievable for Palmeiras, considering they got eliminated by Santo Andre at the Brazilian Cup. Santos doing really bad this year, they dont got defenders without Alex, and both their fullbacks arent anything special.

 

[Daniel David]

By the way, Santo Andre x XV Novembro de Campo Bom is a semifinal of Brazilian cup. What the...?
It was said during the game that Wagner Love is ready to go from Palmeiras. Anyone knows where is he going?

 

[Lean]

Originally posted by Daniel David
This is not the day for clubs in full whites... Santos 0 - 4 Palmeiras at home. This would be unbelievable two months ago. Just as Real, Santos really has gone downhill. And they think that they can solve their problems with the fool Luxemburgo, the flop Ricardinho and now (just heard on TV)...Roque Júnior! LMAO! .

Well, Luxemburgo is a good manager. But he needs time, although signing Roque Junior wont help much...