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League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Preview

by Jack Lang at Friday, May 8 2015 10:41

League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Preview

The major European leagues may be reaching their climax, but for those troubled souls who like their football blurrily streamed and late at night, there is only one show in town this weekend.The Campeonato Brasileirão - Brazil’s top flight - returns on Saturday after a five-month hiatus...

Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Dec 10 2014 14:18

Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title

The Campeonato Brasileiro, to bastardise that neat Gary Lineker aphorism, is a simple championship. 20 teams slog away for the best part of a year and in the end, Cruzeiro win.It wasn’t always thus, of course: the Belo Horizonte side’s dominance is a relatively unusual phenomenon for a l...

League Focus: Brasileirão 2013 Season Review

by Jack Lang at Thursday, Dec 12 2013 16:55

League Focus: Brasileirão 2013 Season Review

As any player or fan will tell you, the Campeonato Brasileiro is both a marathon and a sprint. After 38 rounds of action, crammed into five-and-a-half months, we reached the end of the road at the weekend.Things didn’t exactly go smoothly. The match between Atlético Paranaense and releg...

Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Jul 31 2013 12:31

Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim

They may not like it on the bronze beaches of Rio, in São Paulo’s office blocks and in the proud alehouses of Porto Alegre, but Brazilian football has a new epicentre. Since the turn of the year, Belo Horizonte has become the place to be on planet futebol.First there was the reopening o...

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