Striker Anderson Tanque of Novo Hamburgo, a team from southern Brazil, heard of his father’s death shortly before starting a match, but decided to play and scored a goal in his first minute of play against Santa Cruz. Tanque received the news of his father’s death during the warm-up of the match, which was played […]
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Juan Carlos Osorio, new coach of Athletico Paranaense
Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio, former coach of Mexico and Paraguay, will become the new coach of Athletico Paranaense, the Brazilian first division club announced on Wednesday. “With a consolidated name and a lot of experience on the most important stages of world football, the Colombian coach arrives at ‘Rubro-Negro’ for the challenge of leading the […]
James is said to have been angry and informed Dorival, the coach of Sao Paulo, about this.
‘Yes, he went to the office. He went to talk to Dorival. He is a very professional man, he takes good care of himself. The whole staff was there, in the final their whole group was there, because they had prepared a lot to participate in those competitions. And then he celebrated with us in […]
Footballer convicted of fixing matches in Brazil suspended forever
A sports field in Brazil approved the exclusion from the field for the rest of his life of midfielder Marcus Vinícius Alves ‘Romário’, the first of Brazil’s football players to try to join a network that arranged matches to avoid a gambling mafia favor. The verdict was handed down this Monday by the First Disciplinary […]
Footballer was sentenced to prison for assaulting a referee
This Tuesday, a jury in Venâncio Aires, Brazil, has the ex-footballer william ribeiro He was sentenced to a final term of imprisonment of two years and eight months, in an initially semi-open regime, for attempted murder, after kicking the referee to the ground Rodrigo Crivellaro in a match between Esporte Clube Guaraní and Sport Club […]
The Pumas of Mexico fire Dani Alves
Brazilian winger Daniel Alves, detained in a Barcelona prison after being accused of sexual assault by a woman, has been sacked by the PUMA’s UNAM, Mexican club president Leopoldo Silva announced on Friday. “With the information that has arisen regarding the legal process that the player Dani Alves is facing and for which he is […]