The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com Following Brazilian football from an English perspective. Wed, 15 May 2013 21:32:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 What’s Happening in Brazil? – Interview With Paulo Freitas http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/15/brazil-football-interview-with-paulo-freitas/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/15/brazil-football-interview-with-paulo-freitas/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 21:11:28 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=252 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/15/brazil-football-interview-with-paulo-freitas/feed/ 0 Brazil Confederations Cup Squad Announced http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/14/brazil-confederations-cup-squad-announced/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/14/brazil-confederations-cup-squad-announced/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:16 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=249 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/14/brazil-confederations-cup-squad-announced/feed/ 0 Botafogo Triumph in Carioca State Championship http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/06/botafogo-triumph-in-carioca-state-championship/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/06/botafogo-triumph-in-carioca-state-championship/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 08:42:58 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=245 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/06/botafogo-triumph-in-carioca-state-championship/feed/ 0 Neymar Could Join Barcelona http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/05/neymar-could-join-barcelona/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/05/neymar-could-join-barcelona/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 07:38:45 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=236 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/05/neymar-could-join-barcelona/feed/ 0 Botafogo Stars in Brazil Toulon Tournament Squad http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/03/brazil-toulon-tournament-squad-201/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/03/brazil-toulon-tournament-squad-201/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 22:10:40 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=228 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/05/03/brazil-toulon-tournament-squad-201/feed/ 0 Jefferson Retains Place in Brazil Squad http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/21/brazil-sqaud-chile/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/21/brazil-sqaud-chile/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:30:33 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=220 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/21/brazil-sqaud-chile/feed/ 0 Dede to Sign for Cruzeiro http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/17/dede-brazil-cruzeiro/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/17/dede-brazil-cruzeiro/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:56:55 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=208 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/17/dede-brazil-cruzeiro/feed/ 0 Vitinho – Botafogo Stars of the Future http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/10/vitinho-botafogo-stars-of-the-future/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/10/vitinho-botafogo-stars-of-the-future/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:43:21 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=199 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 – [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/10/vitinho-botafogo-stars-of-the-future/feed/ 0 Jefferson & Doria in Brazil Squad to Face Bolivia http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/03/brazil-squad-bolivia-friendl/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/03/brazil-squad-bolivia-friendl/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:04:21 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=193 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 [...]

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]]> http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/04/03/brazil-squad-bolivia-friendl/feed/ 0 Selecao Update – It’s Not Like Watching Brazil http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/03/30/selecao-update-its-not-like-watching-brazil/ http://thebotafogostar.com/2013/03/30/selecao-update-its-not-like-watching-brazil/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:36:31 +0000 The Botafogo Star http://thebotafogostar.com/?p=188 At least not at the moment anyway. Luis Felipe Scolari is now three games into his second stint as the manager of the Selecao, but he’s yet to convince the legion of Brazil fans around the world that he’s the man to take them to World Cup Glory on home soil in 2014. A disappointing [...]

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