It feels good to see Brazil back. Today’s match against Venezuela for the World Cup Qualifiers brought a squad who gave fans confidence and peace of mind. Brazil easily won 4 x 0 killing all talk that the Venezuelans were changing history (Brazil lost its first match ever to the Venezuela in Boston this past June).
In just 18 minutes, the Brazilians had it with 3 goals. The first, a gorgeous one from Kaká. Second, an amazing kick from Robinho. And the third one came from Adriano, who finally scored for Seleção after 840 days. One the second half, Robinho scored one more after a beautiful pass from Kléber.
Remarks:
Kaká makes such a difference. His presence on the pitch makes the quad more dynamic, and more offensive. Even though he lost a goal that even I would have scored, he played a solid match.
Robinho also did well. Also lost an easy goal on the second half. His first goal was glorious.
Adriano is back! We hope. He will be out of next match against Colombia in Brazil but I believe he has found peace with football once again.
Goalie Julio Cesar did his job very well and stopped the few ball that went his way.
Kléber - against popular opinion (and by popular I mean mine) - played excellent football and deserves his place on the left wing.
Kudos, kudos! I am happy and hoping for the same good football next Wednesday.
I guess Raymond Domenech is keeping his job a little longer. France tied 2×2 with Romania thanks to Ribery and the young Gourcuff. Greece got the job well done with a glorious goal from Katsoyranis (Roberto Carlos style). Here are the goals:
Holy canoodles!!! Today I heard from The Offside that C. Ronaldo opened a new fashion store: CR7. Now I’m not sure how many guys out there would love to wear his men purses, giant buckle belts and scream CR7 everyhwere they go… I guess there’s taste for everything in this world. Oh! And guess what? He also has a WAG line for the ladies! See more pictures at Football Fashion Blog.
October 19th. That is the deadline AC Milan gave Ronaldinho. The Brazilian needs to get in shape and be 100% in 10 days. Not called in to join the Seleção, he will need to prove his football all over again, which is possible if he is really up for it. My opinion is he is not only out of shape but out of motivation (apparently big bucks, recognition, millions of fans and ladies are not enough for him). Can he do it? Will we see Ronaldinho at his best shape on October 19th?
Since this is extremely relevant to the game of football, I give you Robinho’s new hair style. Looks good. I wish a better hairdo would also mean a better player but it does not. Brazil (with Robinho) will face the next round of the World Cup Qualifiers against Venezuela on the 12th and Colombia on the 15th. And we have to admit the style is a bit old (Golden Balls sported it in 2006) so I am suggesting a more unique one. Quite stylish I believe.
Yep, they do. They used to have Van der Saar, but he retired from international matches leaving the spot open to young Maarten Stekelenburg, from Ajax. But what happened was that Maarten got injured and the Oranje was left wondering who to put in goal on the next round of matches for the World Cup Qualifiers. Solution: “Hey, Van der Saar, can you cut us some slack and cover for Maarty while he gets better?” And Van der Saar is such a nice person! So he will, even though he said he wouldn’t anymore. But the truth is, Netherlands needs to prep up and start producing some great goalies. What if Maarten gets injured when Van der Saar is retired (and by that I mean really retired)?
Futsal is a great sport. Us, Brazilians, grow up playing it and trying to decide whether we want to play football or futsal professionally (even though in reality we will never be professionals!). But the dilemma is there, in any case. And if you think about it, futsal is indeed so much fun. If you have been watching the Futsal World Cup in Brazil you would agree with me. So here are some reasons why futsal is so cool (fyi - these all apply to the Brazilian futsal team).
What a day for Berbatov. Manchester United beat AaB 3 - 0 and tops group E along with Villarreal. Arsenal put 4 goals inside Porto’s net and Real Madrid got the job done by beating Zenit 2-0 in St. Petersbourg. If you want to watch all goals I found this neat website by a French person, which is where I got Berbatov’s amazing goal from.
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