Chinese Money is Killing The Highly Competitive Brazilian Football Scene

Before the year even ends, the Brazilian champions who attained the 2015 league title recording the best numbers the Brasileirão has ever seen, Corinthians are already suffering major losses for a majorly busy 2016, where Timão fans hope their side could do better than last year in the continent’s most prestigious competition, the Copa Libertadores…

Did Team Market Value Influence the 2015 Brasileirão?

So, did money influence the outcome of this year’s Brazilian League season? The answer is, kind of. For example, in the case of the “have-not’s”, or the squads bearing the league’s lowest market value, it did. In order, Avai, Joinville, and Goiás possess the league’s least valuable players, and with that in mind, all three of…

46th Bola de Ouro – Awarding the Year’s Best!

The 2015 Brasileirão has come to a close, and with it, ’tis the season of giving – time to recognize, and honor those who deserve to be awarded for giving us quite a football season this year. The 46th edition of the Bola de Prata/Bola de Ouro awards, organized by Placar; the nation’s leading football magazine ever since the “Golden…

Market Value of Top 4 Brasileirão Teams vs European Teams

The Brazilian champions of 2015, Corinthians have a Total Market Team Value (TMTV) equivalent to about the same as Dutch powerhouse, Ajax of Amsterdam. But still lower than all but 3 out of a total 20 Premier League sides, the most prestigious league in the world. Now of course this doesn’t mean for instance, that…