The Botafogo Star Interviews @BrazilStats

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May 232013
 
The Botafogo Star Interviews @BrazilStats

The Botafogo Star had the pleasure of interviewing @BrazilStats and its accompanying blog http://brazilstats.wordpress.com. Read on to see what he had to say about the current state of the Brazil national team ahead of the World Cup next year, and his view on Neymar’s development amongst other things. Who do you think Brazil’s star players will be at the 2014 World Cup, and are there any players who are currently relatively unknown who could stand out? Brazil has lacked a true star player since a long time now, almost 3 or [...]

What’s Happening in Brazil? – Interview With Paulo Freitas

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May 152013
 
What's Happening in Brazil? - Interview With Paulo Freitas

The Botafogo Star was lucky enough to get the thoughts of Paulo Freitas on a few issues relating to Brazilian football. Paulo is Brazil’s Head Researcher for Football Manager, a Sky Sports correspondent, and a writer for The Elastico, Just Football and Sambafoot. He also runs the Brazilian football community on Google Plus. Q) The Brazilian national team has a worldwide following and attracts spectators whereever they play. Do you think the Brazilian domestic league could ever be as popular as the national team? A) I doubt it, competition is much fiercer [...]

Brazil Confederations Cup Squad Announced

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May 142013
 
Brazil Confederations Cup Squad Announced

The Brazil manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, has announced his squad for the forthcoming Confederations Cup, and the preceding friendly matches against England and France. Striker Leandro Damiao has been recalled to the national set up as Scolari looks eager to try out different options in the forward line. Another one of these options will be Atletico Mineiro’s young attacker Bernard, who gets the nod over his team mate Ronaldinho, who misses out. Bernard will be in demand over the coming months as clubs in Europe will look to prise him away from [...]

Botafogo Triumph in Carioca State Championship

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May 062013
 
Botafogo Triumph in Carioca State Championship

Botafogo confirmed their domination of this seasons’ Campeonato Carioca with a 1-0 win over Fluminense in the Taca Rio final. As winners of both the Taca Guanabara earlier in the year, and now the Taca Rio, Botafogo are crowned overall winners of the Carioca Championship without the need for a final play-off. Rafael Marques scored the all important goal to give O Glorioso the win, after a long shot from Lucas struck Doria in the Fluminense area, before falling at the feet of the striker who slotted home. The striker would [...]

Neymar Could Join Barcelona

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May 052013
 
Neymar Could Join Barcelona

Multiple sources, including Brazil’s Sport newspaper, are reporting that Neymar will be joining Barcelona this summer – much earlier than was originally thought. It has long been touted that the Brazil’s most coveted wonderkid will be waiting until after the 2014 World Cup, for which Brazil are the hosts, before making his high profile move to Europe. There have also been several rumours from Spain that Barcelona have taken out considerable player insurance policies, which suggest that a high profile player will be arriving this summer. Interviews with Neymar’s father [...]

Botafogo Stars in Brazil Toulon Tournament Squad

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May 032013
 
Botafogo Stars in Brazil Toulon Tournament Squad

Three of Botafogo’s future stars have been selected for the Brazil squad to play in the 2013 Toulon Tournament. Centre back Doria, midfielder Gabriel, and promising young striker Vitinho will all get chances to impress in the yellow shirt as they travel to France for the annual youth tournament. The Brazilian youth side will be hoping to improve on a miserable performance in the South American U20 Cup, in which they were eliminated at the group stages. Brazil have won the competition 6 times previously, but not since 2002, and will face Nigeria, [...]

Jefferson Retains Place in Brazil Squad

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Apr 212013
 
Jefferson Retains Place in Brazil Squad

Jefferson has retained his place in the Brazil squad for the second of two games where only home based players have been selected. The Botafogo goalkeeper was called up for the first game against Bolivia and played the full 90 minutes. He was accompanied on this occasion by his young team mate Doria who managed to get a few minutes at the end of the game – coming on for Dede in the 87th minute to make his full international debut. Unfortunately Doria has been left out of this particular [...]

Dede to Sign for Cruzeiro

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Apr 172013
 
Dede to Sign for Cruzeiro

As the headlines in Europe read “Dede Snubs Chelsea/Milan/Man United/Liverpool” (delete as appropriate depending on the locality of the reporter), the Brazilian press are revelling in a big money move within their own league rather than away from it. As is commonplace in Brazil and South America the deal wasn’t straightforward, and the contract negotiations involved a collection of third parties and the settling of old debts before Vasco da Gama could finally announce that a deal had been done with Cruzeiro. Vasco have been struggling financially of late so [...]

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Vitinho – Botafogo Stars of the Future

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Apr 102013
 
Vitinho - Botafogo Stars of the Future

Vitinho is a promising young forward who has previously impressed at youth level with Botafogo, and is now starting to play himself into the senior team at the age of 19. Having been limited for the last two seasons – first to youth football, and then the odd appearance in the Carioca state championships – this could be the season where Vitinho starts to break through and show his considerable talents on a bigger stage. He started 2013 with some regular appearances from the bench in the state championships, usually [...]

Jefferson & Doria in Brazil Squad to Face Bolivia

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Apr 032013
 
Jefferson & Doria in Brazil Squad to Face Bolivia

Botafogo stars Jefferson and Doria have been called up to the Brazil national team squad which will face Bolivia on the 6th of April in Santa Cruz. Both players will be hoping to make the best of their appearance in the national squad for different reasons. At the age of 18, Doria will hope to make his debut for the senior national side, having only represented Brazil at U20 level previously. The 30 year old Jefferson will be aiming to impress if he’s given a chance between the posts, and [...]

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