By taking a quick look over the list below, you’d be quick to think that I only counted footballers who play domestically (in Brazil). But that isn’t the case. The question that remains to be answered is: “does a player gain more value when having a great season in his native country as opposed to…
Are We Really the Land of Football?
Last Thursday (Jan/21/2016), the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) ran a study highlighting demographics of the country’s stadia. Albeit alarming to outsiders, it is an outcome I had already expected while I read the results: 790 stadiums were considered. of which 514 were controlled by some form of government level – city, state, federal. 4 of these stadiums…
It’s all in the family
Which are the world’s best players whose careers are managed not by agencies, but by their families instead? Well, one of these players just won the FIFA Ballon d’Or for a historic 5th time earlier today, in Zurich. Familial links with players often prove to cause more difficulty than regular sport agencies/investors. And the reason…
There’s no more magic in football
About three years before he ended as the world’s best footballing nation’s most valuable player, Renato Augusto returned from a 5-year Bundesliga stint absolutely broken. Broken-spirited & physically wrecked. The former Bayer Leverkusen, Arturo Vidal’s partner in the German team’s midfield had a chronic series of injuries, so much so he thought he’d have to…
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…
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