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Six of the Best: Must-have Brasileirao youngsters for your Football Manager save

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Six of the Best: Must-have Brasileirao youngsters for your Football Manager save Having taken a look at the best breakthrough stars in Europe in our two-parter last week - Part I and Part II - it's time to inject some samba into your Football Manager 20 save. Indeed, the Brasileirao is teeming with young talent at the moment. Real Madrid have made no secret of their intention to...

Your Guide to Brasileirão 2016

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Your Guide to Brasileirão 2016 It seems like only yesterday that we were ushering the 2015 Brasileirão into the sweet hereafter, yet here we are, plunging headlong towards the watering hole once more. The tears in my eyes? Nothing but condensation. We go again.Talking logisticsPub quiz question: what is the opposite of joy...

Player Focus: Pato Beginning to Shine for São Paulo After Change of Position

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 Player Focus: Pato Beginning to Shine for São Paulo After Change of Position Like so many other ill-fated schemes, it began with Silvio Berlusconi.Alexandre Pato had begun his Milan career in stunning style, scoring 24 Serie A goals in goals in his first two seasons and cementing his reputation as one of the best prospects in the game. World domination - both at club level a...

Player Focus: Luís Fabiano Gatecrashes the Fantastic Four to Provide Reminder of his Quality

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Player Focus: Luís Fabiano Gatecrashes the Fantastic Four to Provide Reminder of his Quality Bad news for fans of title races going right to the wire: it now seems unlikely that São Paulo will manage to overthrow the heavyweights of Cruzeiro before the Campeonato Brasileirão season ends. Going into the midweek round, the Tricolor trail by four points having played a game more ...

Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome

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Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome Of all the sides in the Campeonato Brasileiro, none contains more recognisable faces – to European football fans, at least – than São Paulo FC. There's Álvaro Pereira, the Uruguayan wing-back, on the left flank. Former Arsenal midfielder Denílson sits in front of the...

Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks

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Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. The night is darkest before the dawn and all that. The problem for fans of São Paulo FC is that it's only ten past midnight and things are already unbearably bad.On Wednesday evening the Tricolor lost 2-0 to Corinthians in the second ...