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	Brazilian football league system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two simultaneous and independent pyramids in the Brazilian football, the national pyramid, and the state pyramid.
		While the national competitions are organized by the CBF, the state championships are organized by the respective football federations of each state (for example, the Campeonato Pernambucano is organized by the Pernambucan Football Federation).
		The state championships are not officially hierarchically behind the Série C, but they are used by CBF as a way to promote clubs to the competition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_football_league_system (418 words)

	The New Yorker : archive : content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the modern game of football, the basic elements are a strong defense, to prevent the other team from scoring goals, or even having the opportunity to score, and a sharp, sudden attack that is ready to seize any opportunity to penetrate the opposing defense.
		The football itself was fascinating enough to strike me dumb; and where, in the semifinal against Portugal, I had been driven to lyrical exclamation, I found this game too tense, too fast, too breathtaking to do more than gasp, as much as at what did not happen as at what did.
		The football used in the final, which had been promised for auction to Oxfam, a charity organization that collects for stricken countries, turned up in Germany in the possession of one of the German team, but Oxfam was pressing hopefully for its return.
	www.newyorker.com /archive/content/articles/060703fr_archive01 (8851 words)

	rediff.com sports: W'Cup win fails to revive Brazilian championship
		Brazilian football enjoyed a brief flirt with prosperity at the end of the last decade when foreign-based companies moved in to set up partnerships with some of the leading clubs -- including Flamengo, Corinthians and Palmeiras.
		Flamengo have been in a state of almost perpetual boardroom turmoil for years as various factions struggle for control of the club, which is now one of the most indebted in the country.
		Brazilian international Juninho became the latest big-name player to leave the club when he returned to England for a third stint at Middlesbrough.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2002/aug/10brazil.htm (728 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| World Football \| Brazil's football politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most widely-known symbol of the nation, Brazil's football team, were soon roped in to the political arena.
		They were within their rights to do so; they have an agreement with the Brazilian FA whereby they have no obligation to release players for friendlies outside Europe.
		Included in the original bill was a proposal that the president of the FA and the state football federations should be limited to two four-year terms of office.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/world_football/3692918.stm (613 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Brazil's Challenge
		In this contest, one team defends a goal that is only two feet wide, most of the referees are on the take, and the home field advantage is much greater than anything the Korean team could have dreamed of in Seoul.
		This contest pits the Brazilian people against their own financial elite, foreign bankers and financial institutions, the media at home and abroad, and an army of economists from Wall Street and Washington.
		It won't be easy for the Brazilians to take on the rich and powerful, at home and up North, and chart a new course for their economy.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-07/16weisbrot.cfm (748 words)

	Brazil national football team information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Brazilian national football team is the most successful national football team in the world, with five FIFA World Cup victories, including the most recent tournament in 2002.
		Brazilians refer to the national football team as the "Seleção," which literally means "selection" and can be translated "the selected".
		The Brazilian youth team (formed by players under the age of 20) also won four titles of the World Youth Championship in 1983, 1985, 1993, and 2003.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Brazil_national_football_team (1729 words)

	Brazilian Football Fans
		Given the central importance of the sport of football in Brazilian life, this is not a frivolous musing.
		Football established itself in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay less as a competition between cities, more on the basis of club rivalry within cities.
		Sócrates' comrades also challenged the 'concentração', which is part of Brazilian footballing culture that is perhaps the greatest affront to players' liberties.
	www.zonalatina.com /Zldata283.htm (3399 words)

	SPORTS: Mercosur Loses World Cup Hegemony
		The Brazilian team on the pitch, despite the eye-catching yellow and green uniforms, seemed to reflect the always discouraged and bored appearance of their leader on the sidelines, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira.
		And that is how the Brazilian fans see it too, evident in the contrast with the reception that Argentine fans gave their national team, despite its defeat in a penalty shoot-out against Germany Friday, after a 1-1 tie in regulation time and extra periods.
		Football, despite the globalisation of the sport, continues to be dominated by a growing number of European countries and by South America's Southern Cone, specifically Argentina and Brazil, since the decline of Uruguay in the last few decades.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=33852 (1161 words)

	Americans Take Soccer to Heart
		The consensus of these commentaries has been that Americans, their attention taken up by the big three of baseball, American football, and basketball, which dominate, respectively, summer, fall and winter, simply have no time or energy left for another major sport.
		In so many ways soccer seemed to have established itself as one of the preeminent sports in the United States almost 100 years ago, and the country was an international force into the first third of the 20th century.
		Part of the problem was that even as soccer's popularity grew within some segments of the population, it retained its image as an immigrant's sport, something imported, but not entirely within the mainstream.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/a071103.htm (1590 words)

	Stolen Valor - 2001 Amputee Soccer Championship Tournament
		The Brazilian team took home the trophy, but under conditions which would have caused howls of indignaiton, scandal, and governmental investigations in any other country.
		A referee's calls and non-calls, and the padding of the bench may or may not have made a difference in the ultimate outcome.
		The cost, and the crime, is that the magnificent Brazilian team, with all its skills, with all its poetry on the pitch, was not given enough credit, not appreciated enough, not trusted enough to be allowed to win on its own merits.
	www.ampsoccer.org /wc01/stolen_valor.htm (444 words)

	Brazilian Football: FAQ
		Most Brazilian players are known professionally by either a nickname, or one or more names extracted from their full names.
		Yes, Brazilian soccer is entirely professionalized, although sometimes the men who run it are not, or do not act with professional competence, or both.
		Until recently, the Brazilian soccer calendar was disorganized and poorly designed, suffering changes from season to season, and even on the fly during the season.
	www.netvasco.com.br /mauroprais/futbr/faq.html (1703 words)

	United Athletes Magazine - Brazilian football, a great party
		in the 2003 Brazilian Championship) was facing Prudentopolis in the Parana state championship.
		Football is played ideally on a rather dry field.
		A Brazilian football match is worth a detour.
	www.unitedathletes.com /english/columns/brazil_football.html (483 words)

	Brazilian Football State Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the state championships are very old competitions, they are very traditional, and are almost important as the national leagues.
		Historically, because of economical or geographical issues, the distances between the most important cities of the country made the Brazilian people, through their football passion, develop a strong competitive culture within the states.
		Also, the best placed clubs of each state which are not disputing the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Série B qualify to the same year's Série C.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Football_State_Championship (242 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Brazilian referee admits to taking bribes
		Brazilian referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho admitted in a television interview yesterday that he accepted money to influence the results of matches and said he had been corrupted.
		The interview came on the same day as a Brazilian sporting tribunal decided to annul the results of all 11 matches in which he officiated in this year's domestic championship.
		Also an international official, Carvalho was suspended on September 24 along with Paulo Jose Danelon, who refereed in the Brazilian second division and who has already admitted, through his lawyer, of fixing three games in exchange for money.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2005/1003/brazil.html (367 words)

	African Boots of Beijing \| Official Movie Web Site
		As is normally the case in football, our opponents got a half-chance, a counter-attack with a long ball to the striker who lobbed the advancing John before he had a chance to touch the ball.
		It was another Brazilian though, the artist formerly known as Ronaldinho, who rounded out the scoreline with a beautiful, top-corner, header which signalled the end of the Vikings' hope football-wise.
		The 2005-2006 IFFC Championship was won by and is dedicated to the Afrika United family.
	www.africanboots.com (9094 words)

	Domestic chaos belies Brazil's glossy exterior
		Far from Brazil's international reputation for artistry and attacking play, Brazilian domestic football is regarded as being among the most violent in the world, where 60-foul matches are common.
		This means that even before starting their 38-match programme in the Brazilian championship, teams have played up to 20 matches.
		Zico, one of the top players in Brazilian history after Pele and currently coach of Japan, said he would never come back to work in his homeland under the present circumstances and suggested fans should be punished for the donkey chant.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2006/apr/13foot1.htm (831 words)

	Brazilian Football Clubs: São Paulo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This flag, green with a white Canadian pale and the logo on the center, is also shown at the club website and was provided by Auriel de Almeida of High Quality Football Logos as the official flag of Palmeiras.
		The red stars are for the 1992 and 1993 world club football championships won by São Paulo.
		Many Brazilian football clubs are named some variant of "clube de regatas," or regatta club.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br@sp.html (403 words)

	Pravda.RU Brazilian football team coach knows how to win the coming world championship
		One of the latest examples is the Brazilian team, which is the traditional favorite for the world championship, but the Argentinean team is far ahead of Brazil this time, and experts believe that Argentina will be the first candidate to become the champion.
		Therefore, Brazilian football players will not be allowed to have sex at all in June, during the final part of the championship.
		In addition, the Brazilians are very likely to become the first rivals of the Russian team during the playoffs of the coming championship.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/05/06/28290.html (2239 words)

	CARNAVAL 2005 PICTURES, BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL, CARNAVAL 2006 PICTURES
		This is a great injustice as niteroi coast has many beautiful places, especially the beaches further from the city center; in 1996 it gained and added attraction, an Niemeyer that it is a wonderful example of his avant garde style.
		It is a native brazilian indian word given to a small partridge whose male is very jealous and engages in fierce fights with its rivals.
		The musical orientation, enthusiasm and creativity of these associations of sambistas is the name as could be found in carnival revellers and blocos of the 19th century, when the first exhibitions of carnival floats appeared based on a european aesthetic.
	www.brazilriodejaneiro.com (946 words)

	CNN.com - Italian football's fading fortunes - August 22, 2002
		With eight of Italy's top-flight members unable to secure pay-per-view television deals, the Italian Football League voted to postpone the first round of matches by two weeks until September 15, granting precious extra time for those clubs to secure broadcasting contracts on which their survival could depend.
		The league has also called on Italy's government to declare a state of crisis in the football industry, permitting tax concessions and other benefits for clubs on the brink of bankruptcy.
		Even Massimo Maccarone, the star of Empoli's promotion-winning season in Serie B and the Italian Under-21 side's European Championship campaign, has chosen to join English Premier League side Middlesbrough, rather than ply his trade in Serie A. But Radnedge believes standards in Italian football remain high.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/22/italy.football (899 words)

	CNN.com - UEFA issue sanctions to Turkish FA - Dec. 5, 2003
		The Turkish FA also received a further 30,000 Swiss francs fine for "the improper and aggressive behaviour its players and officials towards the referee" at the end of the Germany under-21 match and for "delaying the kickoff" of the Latvia game.
		In another ruling, Turkish club Galatasaray were fined 50,000 Swiss francs after their fans lit and threw fireworks at the Champions League game against Greek side Olympiakos in Istanbul on October 21.
		Domenech had said the Portugal players "were not in their normal state" and claimed syringes had been found in their dressing room.
	cnn.com /2003/SPORT/football/12/05/turkey.fines.reut (486 words)

	United States Set for Start of 2006 World Cup of Football - US Department of State
		Besides the United States, teams from the CONCACAF zone that qualified for the 2006 tournament were Costa Rica, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago, making its first appearance in the World Cup.
		This is the fifth consecutive time the United States has qualified for football's premier event, which is played every four years.
		His paper is giving the Cup first-page placement, he said, due to the "thriving football culture" that exists in the Washington area.
	usinfo.state.gov /eur/Archive/2006/Jun/08-861494.html (882 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Madrid unveil Luxemburgo as new coach
		Leads them to victory in the Brazilian championship in the second half of the year.
		Luxemburgo, who is also in charge of the Olympic team, is fired after they are beaten in the quarter-finals of the Sydney Olympics by nine-man Cameroon.
		He then becomes one of the central figures as Congress launches an investigation into the finances of Brazilian football and is grilled in public over his tax returns.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2004/1230/madrid.html (537 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		This geographical reality is said to have influenced the type of football practised in the region, which is distinctly more physical and down-to-earth than the romantic samba style more commonly associated with Brazil.
		Despite these solid foundations, around thirty gaucho (state championship) titles and their dramatic rivalry with Internacional of Porto Alegre, Gremio had to wait until 1981, 78 years after the club’s creation, to lift their first Brazilian title.
		Ever since, Gremio have retained their place among the elite few clubs of Brazilian football, maintaining a healthy rivalry with the powerful clubs of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
	www.fifa.com /en/comp/Clubworld/tournament/0,6537,CWC-2005-61,00.html (848 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		The Brazilian, who played in three World Cups, warned that an expanded format would cause fixture congestion, place added strain on players and ultimately dilute the quality of the competition.
		If you look at what Asia have achieved at football, four places is enough,” said the 50-year-old, who took over the Japan job from Frenchman Philippe Troussier last July.
		Zico, who won four Brazilian championship medals with Flamengo, said Europe still offered brighter prospects than their own country for many young Brazilian players.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030517/asp/sports/story_1977486.asp (624 words)

	The Ultimate Iranian Football Site and Persian Sports Radio
		And with UEFA EURO 2004 around the corner, many were becoming sensitive of the need to replace the 'golden generation' that had won the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1991 but arguably peaked at EURO 2000 when reaching the semi-finals.
		While Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said he would consider him along with "millions of Brazilian players", Portugal's new coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, the man that had led Brazil to their fifth world title, persuaded Deco, who by February 2003 had been earning his living for six years in Portugal, to represent his adopted country.
		Deco was sent on by Scolari as a late substitute and with eight minutes to go, the player struck home the winning goal –a free kick – to give the Brazilian his debut win as coach and Portugal their first victory against Brazil for 37 years.
	www.iranfootballonline.com /news.php?nn=290 (1158 words)

	Futebol \| Clubs and Competitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Club football in Brazil is complicated because the country is so big and there are different competitions.
		The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is trying to rationalise it and by 2007 hopes for the Brazilian league to happen concurrently with European season.
		Each of Brazil's 27 states has a competition at the beginning of the year.
	www.futebolthebrazilianwayoflife.com /clubsandchamp.shtml (211 words)

	World Cup 2006 - Private Sector Development - The World Bank Group
		Fischer also writes that football is "a really impressive example of successful globalization." Referring to efforts to develop African football starting in the 1960s, he notes there is a new generation of young African football players now playing in major European leagues, and their experiences and skills are being transferred back home.
		The goal is to use the positive effect of football to highlight the issues of global poverty and homelessness, as well as use the sport as a social integrator for its participants.
		The hope is to encourage the use of football as a cultural mediator and a medium for social development.
	rru.worldbank.org /features/WorldCup2006.aspx (2256 words)

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