Entries Tagged as ‘Brazil’

April 16, 2008

not coming back

Romário, the historic 42-year-old player, announced his retirement. One of the greatest strikers ever, his last game was in november 2007. During his 23-year career, he won the 1994 World Cup title, some “player of the year” awards and scored more than one thousand goals, by his own count. Rumours say he was waiting for [...]

March 27, 2008

Robinho sucks again

In the most boring friendly match ever, Brazil beat Sweden by 1-0 this wednesday in London. Altough many of the players didn´t know, the game was supposed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brazil’s first World Cup final triumph. Alexandre “Pato/the Duck” took advantage from a nonsense mistake of the swedish goalkeeper called RAMI SHAABAN, [...]

February 7, 2008

Robinho nicks for Brazil

I know I’ve been wrong a few times in life. But I’ve never been as wrong as I was about Robinho. It was crystal clear to me that the guy would be a new Denilson: the purposeless dribbler with no use but entertaining. And don’t get me wrong. Entertainment is very good; I love it. [...]