Video Of The Week: Pele And Garrincha
The careers of possibly the two most famous and talented Brazilian players of all time diverged, yet couldn’t have been more different. This documentary traces the story of football’s first...
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Brazil Undone By Dutch Pragmatism
Never meet your heroes, they say. It is possible that a lot of people met theirs yesterday in the form of the 2010 version of the Brazilian national football team....
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-1 Brazil
Into the quarter-finals then, and now it starts getting serious.This was the first clash between two teams with serious winning credentials - or at least, Brazil's pedigree was beyond dispute....
World Cup 2010: Brazil 3-0 Chile
World Cup Television Clichés 101: Germany are efficient, the Netherlands play “total football”, Spain are under-achievers and Brazil play to a samba rhythm. One by one, the long-held preconceptions of...
World Cup 2010: Portugal 0-0 Brazil
Whether or not Group G was this World Cup’s Group of Death, it appears to have taken place in 1966, at Goodison Park, with Eusebio scoring every goal. The game...
World Cup 2010: Brazil 3-1 Ivory Coast
There is a lot of hyperbole spoken about the Brazilian football team. Probably more than is spoken about any club or national side on the planet. It’s almost a mythology....
World Cup 2010: Brazil 2-1 North Korea
It’s easy to disguise ignorance with mockery, and so it seems with this evening’s intriguing match between Brazil and North Korea. Before the match, ITV treats us to as many...
World Cup Tales: Eleven Goals In Strasbourg, 1938
As the entrants lined up for the 1938 World Cup finals in France, storm clouds were building up the horizon, and the tournament itself wasn’t exempt from such global concerns....
World Cup Preview: Group G
The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in just two weeks today, which is so exciting the hair on my legs keeps on spontaneously erupting into flames. By this...
World Cup Tales – Overcoming The Great Humiliation: Brazil, 1958
As the second favourites to win the 2010 World Cup after Spain, Brazil are used to the pressure that comes with the eyes of the world being upon them. No...
Video Of The Week: Brazil vs Uruguay, 1970 World Cup Semi-Final
This week’s Video Of The Week takes us back forty years to one of the greatest matches in the history of the competition – the semi-final match between Brazil and...
The World Cup Of National Anthems: Part Four
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...
New Zealand Revive Memories Of The Summer Of 1982
New Zealand have qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals by beating Bahrain in Wellington this morning, and this result may have stirred a few memories amongst men of a...
A World Cup Finals Without Argentina?
Now is not a particularly good time to be an Argentinian football supporter. Not only have their most loathed opposition – Brazil and England – already qualified for the finals...
Canada & The 1986 World Cup
You wouldn’t know it from the absolute lack of media coverage in the UK, but the CONCACAF Gold Cup – North & Central America’s equivalent of the European Championships –...
The Confederations Cup: Brazil 3-2 USA
The Brazilian coach Dunga’s name translates as “Dopey” in Portuguese, but this soubriquet could have applied to his entire team this evening as the South American champions rode their luck...
The Confederations Cup: Brazil 3-0 Italy
It’s worth remembering on evenings such as this that, much as some people used to make a degree of noise about South Americans not travelling well, no European side has...
The Confederations Cup: USA 0-3 Brazil
The problem with the Confederations Cup, aside from those bloody, bloody, bloody vuvuzela air horns, is that it brings about more mismatches (in terms of quality) than even the World...
The Confederations Cup: Brazil 4-3 Egypt
There is a reason why matches like this one are rare. More, perhaps, is the pity. But it is not just bull-headed, brass-necked conservative imperialism which sees 50 percent of...
The Confederations Cup – A (Very) Rough Guide
For some people, the end of the football season in years that end with odd numbers means a return to the real world. For two and a half months they...