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Santos fail in attempt to sign Humberto Suazo

Santos have recently failed in attempts to bring Chile striker Humberto Suazo to the club, it has been revealed by Lancenet.

Despite the rise of young striker Giva, it is still thought that the club require a first-choice striker to partner Neymar in attack, with the likes of André and Ezequiel Miralles having failed to cement a place in the side.

However, despite Suazo´s contract expiring this summer, the club were unable to compete with the salary offered by current side Monterrey. The player will now remain in Mexico for the time being.

Speaking to the Brazilian sports website, Santos director Felipe Faro said, “It´s well known that we are looking for this profile of player. We only have André as a centre-forward, with Giva and Miralles as second strikers. We need another in this position.

With Suazo, 31, out of the equation, Lance report that Santos are still considering an approach for Grêmio forward Marcelo Moreno, 25. The Bolivian striker is out of the first-team equation in Porto Alegre and could feasibly fit the bill in Santos´ search for a new name to lead the line

Flamengo boss Jorginho urges "Ganso-like" Mattheus to resist Juventus move

He is said to be close to signing for Italian giants Juventus, but Flamengo manager Jorginho has spoken out to advise attacking midfielder Mattheus to continue his development in Brazil.

Mattheus, 18, is the son of Brazilian great Bebeto and, with his contract expiring later this year, has been tipped to move to Juventus for a small fee this summer transfer window.

His coach at Flamengo, though, believes that he should remain with the club and seek to develop his game in a similar style to that of São Paulo star Ganso.

“Mattheus is a great attacking midfielder—a classic attacking midfielder. He shoots with both right and left foot, he heads well and passes the ball very well,” he said.

“He still needs to control the dynamics of the game, something he will learn in the next couple of years. However, if he goes abroad, to Juventus for example, I don´t know if he will succeed.

“I am supporting him, but I want him to stay and take the necessary time. After a while he will be a classic No. 10, like Ganso.”

Mattheus, who was a member of the Brazil Under-20 squad at the South American championship in January, has yet to be used by the Flamengo management this season following the speculation over his future.

For satan en sort søndag i Brasilien. To fans dræbt på vej til derbyet mellem Fortaleza og Ceará, og i Recife fortæller Sport at deres spillerbus blev forfulgt af en sort Opel Vectra på vej til kampen mod Santa Cruz. En mand i bilen havde i flere tilfælde sigtet et skydevåben mod bussen. Sygt, sygt sygt.

For at det ikke skal være løgn, så døde der en person mandag morgen som følge af en ulykke med ombygningen af det tidligere Palestra Italia, som er Palmeiras hjemmebane. Dele af den gamle cementtribune faldt ned og dræbte en 34-årige arbejder.

Cruzeiro close to announcing Dedé signing - reports

Cruzeiro are close to announcing the signing of Vasco defender Dedé, following a meeting that took place in Rio de Janeiro today.

Sports newspaper Lance! reports that only bureaucratic details still need to be dealt with before the deal can be made official.

The clubs also need to decide which players will be loaned to Vasco until the end of the Brazilian season, but Alison and West Ham´s Wellington Paulista are expected to be among them. Diego Renan could also be included but he got injured yesterday.

Dedé has reportedly already agreed personal terms with Cruzeiro, he is expected to earn 150,000 Euros a month.

The group of investors known as DIS own 45% of his rights, and a new meeting will be held soon as they plan to buy part of the remaining percentage.

The deal is expected to become the biggest in Cruzeiro´s history, surpassing the fee paid for Sorín in 2000.

@ Samba

kommer til at tænke på den herm vi har været inde på et par af dem før...




There are a great many reasons for Brazil’s attendance blight, both footballing and otherwise. Here, in no particular order, are perhaps the nine most important.

1) Stadium closure – The most palatable excuse. For the last two years or so, Brazil has been stripped of many of its great footballing theatres, closed for rebuilding work in preparation for the 2014 World Cup. The Maracanã in Rio, Belo Horizonte’s Mineirão, Salvador’s Fonte Nova, and Fortaleza’s Castelão have all been closed, meaning that nine clubs have had to seek alternative accommodation. Palmeiras have also been made homeless while the new Arena Palestra Itália is being built. Perhaps the worst hit have been the two Belo Horizonte teams, Atlético and Cruzeiro, who have had to stage their home games 70km from the city in Sete Lagoas. As a result, Atlético’s average crowd fell from 38,000 in 2009 to 14,000 last year. Good news came recently with the reopening of another stadium in Belo Horizonte, the Indêpendencia, and both clubs recently played their first games back in their home town in front of boisterous crowds.

2) Logistics – The demands of television mean that the bigger midweek games can only begin after the nightly novela das nove, or nine o’clock soap. This means kick-off at around ten o’clock, with the game finishing around midnight. The fan then faces a long trek home, often courtesy of what can be an extremely rickety public transport system. Your correspondent well remembers getting home at around 2am following an Atlético Mineiro vs. Flamengo game at the Mineirão a few years ago. Other inconvenient kick-off times, such as nine o’clock on a Saturday night, are common.

3) Television – When clubs celebrated signing fat new individually negotiated TV contracts last year, only a few lonely voices protested about the effect that live televising of games is having on attendances. Local blackouts generally apply to games broadcast on the big terrestrial and cable networks, but the cable TV companies also offer a not particularly expensive pay-per-view service, which broadcasts every single Serie A or B game without restrictions. What this means is that while stadiums sit empty, bars and restaurants across the city are packed with fans watching the game on TV.

4) The Product – Brazilian football does itself no favours. The continual merry-go-round of players and managers creates an atmosphere of short-termism that dilutes the bond between fan and team. It is common in Brazil to talk of supporting your club, whilst having little respect for the current cast of players or whoever is sitting in the manager’s chair, all of whom are likely to be replaced in the near future. Subconsciously, this distance weakens the sense of being “part of the club” that is an essential element of dragging oneself from the comfort of the armchair and off to the ground.

5) Pontos Corridos - A curiously Brazilian issue, this one. The Brasileiro only adopted a straight league system, with clubs playing each other home and away, in 2003. Prior to that, the championship’s structure changed frequently, but always involved an extensive final knockout stage to decide the winner. To a certain extent the Brazilian footballing mind retains this mentality – while everybody knows that three points in the early going are just as important as three points at the end, no one really believes that they are, because titles are traditionally decided at the season finale. This results in particularly tiny crowds at the start of the year.

6) Ticket Prices – While prices are not particularly expensive to middle class wallets, at least compared to similar leisure activities, prices are often prohibitive to poorer Brazilian pockets, meaning that football is in danger of alienating its core support – the urban working class. If the kind of gentrification process that so transformed British football in the 1990s was imminent then clubs might not care too much, but the majority of more affluent Brazilians prefer to watch their football at home or in the bar, citing fear of violence (see below) and general discomfort as reasons not to attend matches.

7) Violence – As in most footballing cultures where fan violence is an issue, the problem in Brazil is probably not as widespread as often portrayed, but at the same time, it’s bad enough. The deaths of a number of fans around football stadiums in Goiania, São Paulo and Recife this year reopened the debate on the notorious torcida organizadas, and the groups were banned in a number of cities. However, while the pitched battles (and occasional murder) that can occur before and after clássicos are a stain on the game, they are also a product of the violence in wider Brazilian society. And while intimidating, the risk of personal injury to a fan not actively seeking trouble is minimal.

8) The Calendar – The biggest bugbear. The Brazilian footballing calendar is an absurdity. The sprawling and often archaic state championships run from January to May, meaning that a 38 game league season must be squeezed into the remaining six months of the year. This leaves no room for international breaks, or a decent interval to build anticipation prior to the start of the season. It also means that the final stages of the Libertadores and the Copa do Brasil coincide with the start of the Brasileirão, resulting in clubs that are still in the knockout competitions fielding reserve sides during the opening weeks of the league campaign. With such half-hearted attractions on offer, fans can hardly be blamed for voting with their feet.

9) Fickleness – While the football fan in Niteroi might well love his club as passionately as his counterpart in Naples or Newcastle, there is one significant difference. The sense of it being a kind of duty to go to the game and support your team is entirely lacking in Brazil. Fans pick and choose their games, eschewing the duller looking fixtures in favour of more glamorous ties later on. A fine example came in 2008, when there were 80,000 at the Maracanã to see Fluminense lose the Libertadores final to LDU Quito, yet just over 11,000 turned up for the club’s next home game. When a team hits a poor run of form, fans abandon hope completely, and almost empty stadiums are not uncommon.


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@FAS
Brasiliansk fodbold kunne godt trænge til noget fornyelse, og der er nogle vigtige punkter på din liste. Når man tænker på, hvad der er sket med engelsk fodbold gennem de seneste 20 år, så forstår jeg simpelthen ikke at man ikke søger inspiration her.

@Samba

Ja, vi skal ihvertfald have gjort noget ved afviklingen af både statsmesterskaberne og Serie A - der er for mange kampe - for mange ubetydelige kampe - der jo ansporer til et Pick and choose fra tilhængerne, særligt med de billetpriser. Skal statsmesterskaberne afvikles så kunne man med fordel indfører seedning, hvor de store klubber først træder ind i slutfasen, som jeg ser det bruges statsmesterskaberne som en primær ehm lokation for scouting af talenter fra de mindre klubber, så en ændring af statsmesterskabernes struktur vil kræve en ændring af talentarbejde/scouting systemet...vil man det ?

Angående fans adfærd, så er vi jo nok også en smule kritiske, og distanceret til sporten som helhed end englænderne. Vi skal jo have lyst og motivation, et behov (om forandring) for at gå til fodbold, for at ændre ligastrukturen osv, før der sker noget.

Vil du se Vasco spille mod Duque de Caxias eller foretrækker du istedet en finkulturel eftermiddag på Botafogo, Ipanema, Copacabana med en bajer i hånden ? eller familie hygge på Arpoador - det er vel nærliggende efterfølgende at gå en tur ud at spise, og så muligvis se kampen på en bar - hvis man gider.

Når det er sagt så tænker jeg færre kampe, øger betydningen af den enkelte kampog dermed i sagens øge interessen for den, modernisering af stadions vil gøre det mere attraktivt at gå til fodbold. den økonomiske udvikling gør vi bliver mere konkurrencedygtige på aflønning af spillere, klubber kan holde længere på dem, mindre udskiftning i spillertrupperne, mere faninteresse.

Ved ikke rigtig mht volden, de går jo også til den i argentinske og de har da rimeligt med tilskuere alligevel.

Uruguay


Clausura 2013 • WEEK EIGHT

Liverpool 0-2 Nacional; Danubio 0-2 Defensor; Wanderers 4-0 Progreso; Central Español 2-3 Fénix; Racing 2-0 Juventud; Bella Vista 0-1 River Plate; Cerro Largo 3-1 Cerro; El Tanque Sisley 0-1 Peñarol.

Liverpool 0-2 Nacional

On the 13th day of April, in the 13th year of the 21st Century – Nacional’s Number 13, one Sebastian Abreu aka “El Loco” Abreu, drove in a header in the 75th minute that broke a nil-all deadlock between Nacional and Liverpool.

Up until Abreu’s goal, Matías Castro was having a sensational game for Liverpool but that classic header, so typical of Abreu was followed by Gonzalo Bueno’s 89th minute late game gem.

Danubio 0-2 Defensor

Nico Olivera nabbed a brace, which would be enough to overcome Danubio at Jardines del Hipodromo. Andres Fleurquin was red-carded after earning 2 yellow cards in the 36th minute. Note – De Arrascaeta was subbed out in the 39th minute.

Wanderers 4-0 Progreso

Maxi Rodriguez managed a brace while Maxi Olivera and Federico Rodriguez also scored, giving Wanderers an impressive 4-0 victory over Progreso.

Central Español 2-3 Fénix

The Panamanian Cecilio Waterman pumped in 2 goals for the cause while underrated playmaker Hernán Novick also scored via a penalty. Rodrigo Sanguinetti and Ronaldo Martinez added 2 late goals in the game but Waterman’s goal in the 79th minute would be enough to give Fénix the win.

Racing 2-0 Juventud

Juan Tejera’s Racing defeated Juventud, with a goal from Liber Quiñones in the 36th minute and one from Cristian Tabo in stoppage time.

Bella Vista 0-1 River Plate

River Plate continue their winning ways – defeating Julio Ribas and his Angels with Dirty Faces 1-0 at the Nasazzi. The goal was provided by Felipe Avenatti who scored via a penalty kick in the 22nd minute while Gonzalo Freitas was ejected in the 80th minute for Bella Vista.

Cerro Largo 3-1 Cerro

In the battle of the Cerros – Cerro Largo took first prize as they defeated Cerro 3-1. Lots of penalties were dished out, Caballero scored the first for Cerro in the 45th minute, while Fabricio Núñez who scored a brace, scored his second via penalty – former Celeste defender Bruno Silva also scored by way of penalty in the 76th minute.

El Tanque Sisley 0-1 Peñarol

El Lolo Estoyanoff entered the game in the second half – scored in the 69th minute and essentially won the game for the Manyas. Peñarol played with a man down for most of the contest (Alejandro Gonzalez – ejected in the 3rd minute) – while El Tanque Sisley played without Andres Aparicio for the last 20 minutes (also ejected). Note – Danilo Lerda had a good game filling in for Bologna.

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Vasco defender Dedé set for medical with Cruzeiro

Vasco´s defender Dedé is expected to undergo a medical at Cruzeiro by Wednesday, as the transfer is close to be completed.

Cruzeiro, with the support of a group of investors known as ´DIS´, are paying 5.5 million Euros for 45% of the defender´s economic rights.

Wellington Paulista, who is currently loaned to West Ham, and Alisson are likely to be loaned to Vasco as part of the deal. Cruzeiro will also loan out a third player as Diego Renan would also be involved in the deal but he will not be anymore due to a recent injury.

Cruzeiro will pay the full wages of all the players loaned to Vasco, where they will stay until the end of the Brazilian season in December.

Dedé will play his last game for Vasco on Saturday against Madureira, for the Rio de Janeiro State Championship.

The defender will only be able to make his debut at Cruzeiro next month, as the Minas Gerais State Championship transfer window has already closed.

Dedé´s transfer to Cruzeiro will only be officially announced by both clubs after he passes the medical.

Neymar calls for calm over Barcelona speculation

Santos sensation Neymar has appealed for calm over speculation linking the forward with a move to Barcelona.

Reports have emerged in recent days that Neymar´s father met with Barcelona officials to run the rule over a possible summer move.

This led to widespread rumours that a deal had been agreed between the two parties and that a move would happen.

But Neymar has dismissed such talk and insists his future is at Santos, where he has a contract until 2014.

He told Radio Globo: "Who isn´t a fan of Barcelona? I´m happy, I´m thankful for the affection. I feel I´m the happiest guy in the world, regardless of this or that team wanting to sign me.

"I´m happy at the club I love. As I have always said, it´s up to me and my family [to decide my future].

"When the moment is right, I´ll tell everybody. But please stay calm."