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 Brazilian Football Fans
Similarly in Rio, Fluminense was associated with the old, high-status families, Flamengo the team of the poor and the fls, Vasco da Gama supported by Portuguese migrants and their Brazilian-born descendants while Botafogo attracted the modern middle classes.
Rio de Janeiro provides a setting in which to explore the internal workings of soccer clubs and the role they play in symbolizing the real divisions within the city: Rio's twelve soccer clubs help break down the urban mass and integrate people into subgroups.
Rio's team of the masses is Flamengo; its symbol is a fl vulture.
www.zonalatina.com /Zldata283.htm   (3399 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas is a Brazilian multimodality sportive association from Rio de Janeiro.
Botafogo is one of the four big football clubs in Rio de Janeiro along with Flamengo, Fluminense (most ancient rivalry in Brazil: Oct., 22, 1905), and Vasco.
After winning the Rio de Janeiro League in 1989, 1990, and 1997, the international Copa Conmebol (now called Copa Sudamericana) in 1993, and the Brazilian League in 1995, Botafogo would be relegated to the Second Division after ranking last in the Brazilian League of 2002.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Botafogo_de_Futebol_e_Regatas   (999 words)

  
 Travel to Rio de Janeiro Brazil Hotel Tickets Discounts
Cosmopolitan city, Brazil’s capital for almost 200 years, Rio de Janeiro is one of the most main culture centers on the country, with a lot of cinemas, theaters, museums, rooms of concert, show houses, art galleries and libraries.
Rio de Janeiro is an intense modernity, and it’s also a quotidian meeting with the past.
Rio de Janeiro is 1150 km far from Brasilia and 420 km far from São Paulo.
www.floridabrasil.com /brazil/travel-rio-de-janeiro-brazil.html   (718 words)

  
 Brazil Olympic committee picks Rio as candidate city for 2016 Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rio de Janeiro would be the best candidate because of its preparations already under way to host the 2007 Pan American Games, committee president Carlos Nuzman said.
Rio has previously bid to host the games in 2004 and 2012, but never made it past the applicant phase.
Rio Mayor Cesar Maia said the city had learned from past bids and hoped a successful Pan Am Games next July would demonstrate to the IOC that the city was capable of hosting an Olympics.
www.cbc.ca /cp/sports/060901/s090116.html   (248 words)

  
 Football helps children and young people around the world
Two members of the Brazilian national football team have founded centres for at-risk children that combine study and sports.
At half-time during a game of football in a district of Nairobi, Kenya that is one of Africa's most overcrowded and poorest neighbourhoods, 15-year-old Kennedy Arinda teaches his peers about girls, safe sex, relationships and AIDS.
The project uses football as a way to bring attention to the poor health conditions of children in Liberia.
www.unicef.org /football/world   (1796 words)

  
 White powder Fluminense football Club,Rio de Janeiro Soccer team! Facts & origin
Cheering for the Fluminense football club in Rio will make you a Tricolor according to Cariocas (People born and raised in Rio de Janeiro) The name comes from the colourful shirts the Fluminense soccer players uses.
The team's nickname is 'white powder,' referring to the powder used to lighten the faces of aristocracy of an earlier era.
Although both teams draw players from the lower class, Flamengo players are expected to act rough and crude; a more gentlemanly code is imposed on Fluminense players because of the heritage they represent.
www.copacabana.info /fluminense-football-club.html   (435 words)

  
 SPORTS-BRAZIL: Fans Cope With Favourite Status, World Cup ‘Baggage'
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 9 (IPS) - Bad memories are putting a damper on Brazil's enthusiasm for its national football team -- enough to rattle fan confidence even though the team is the international favourite to win the FIFA World Cup tournament, which kicked off Friday in Germany.
The favourites never win the World Cup, said Pelé, the ultimate football king in the eyes of Brazilian (and many other) fans, feeding the "pessimism that is borne of optimism," in the recent words of an intellectual-turned-football commentator.
Football is more at the mercy of "rain and thunderstorms" than any other team sport, as Armando Nogueira, a veteran reporter who has chronicled sports since the 1950 "Maracanazo," likes to say.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=33562   (910 words)

  
 BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL INFORMATIONS, WORLD CUP BRAZILIAN SOCCER PLAYERS PICTURES
The Argentine star had been recalled to the national team to rescue it in the qualifying stages, and he showed some of his old brilliance in the first round.
Brazilian fans had strongly criticized their teams lackluster play in qualifying, and the German team publicly questioned whether it could advance out of the first round.
Although two familiar teams competed for the title -- it was the seventh appearance each for Brazil and Germany in the final, and the Brazilians third consecutive championship game -- the 2002 World Cup was marked by a number of upsets and upstarts that added new energy to the monthlong event.
www.brazilriodejaneiro.com /football.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Romario pics, Romario photos, Romario photo gallery, Romario gallery, Romario fotos, Romario galeria de fotos, Romario ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was born in Jacarezinho (a poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro), on January, 29th of 1966.
In 1993, trying his back to Brazil national team, Romário decided change of team and move to Barcelona (Johan Cruyff was the coach), where he won one title, the 4th of Barcelona in a row.
In 1996, playing to Flamengo, he won the rio de Janeiro league (only teams from Rio de Janeiro state) and he was the top scorer with 26 goals.
www.wsoccer.com /players/romario/more.htm   (334 words)

  
 Sports 123: Beach Soccer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Beach Soccer is the variant of Football, also known as Soccer, played on a sand surface (beach).
Beach Soccer emerged as a true sport from it's recreational roots in the early 1990's on the beaches of Los Angeles, Miami and Rio de Janeiro.
Beach Soccer is governed by he Fédération Internationale de Football Association, which was founded in 1904.
sports123.com /bso/index.html   (81 words)

  
 BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is therefore not necessarily a profound or intensive study of Brazilian football.
According to one version of its history, football was first brought to Brazil by the British and Dutch sailors during the second half of the nineteenth century.
On the 18th of August 1898, the first official club team was formed by the Associação Atlética of Mackenzie College in São Paulo.
users.carib-link.net /~jnb/folhome.html   (757 words)

  
 Rio de Janeiro Cup 2007 | BFUT - Instituto Brasileiro de Futebol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rio de Janeiro is now home to one of the most competitive amateur soccer tournaments in the world.
Rio de Janeiro Cup is open to youth soccer players- both boys and girls- who enjoy playing one of the world’s most popular sports.
The teams that go to the final of the Rio de Janeiro Cup 2006 will have the opportunity to enjoy and participate in this once in a lifetime experience.
www.bfut.net /tours/rio-de-janeiro-cup   (718 words)

  
 Football: London is the venue of choice despite Wembley farce | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
Football: London is the venue of choice despite Wembley farce
Wembley's snail-paced construction threatened to extinguish its claim to be one of the power bases of world football - but it seems the embarrassing conflict between Multiplex and Wembley National Stadium Ltd has failed to deter a stream of international teams declaring the city as their second home.
Jamaica were one of the first teams to set up base in London in response to the large number of their squad playing in Britain.
football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,,1844566,00.html   (450 words)

  
 Rio de Janeiro studio apartment for rent Copacabana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Even without sunshine, the beach is where Carioca’s (Rio residents) meet their friends, sit and chat, practice sports, do their exercises, or simply dive in for a swim.
On Sunday, the beaches become a show of their own and turn into one huge recreation area since the main streets are blocked off to traffic and the area fills up with keep-fit fanatics and families or couples just out for some fresh air.
Rio’s carnaval is the biggest carnaval of the world and gets celebrated all over the city.
www.rioholidayapartment.com /highlights.htm   (1577 words)

  
 Rio de Janeiro Travel Guide -
Football is a national obsession in Brazil – even more so nowadays, following the national team’s fifth World Cup win in 2002.
With its vast beaches, Rio is ideal for beach and watersports and the citizens fully exploit the natural resources.
Football, beach volley and foot volley are constantly taking place and there is a plethora of tournaments and championships.
www.explore-rio.com /754/Sport.html   (581 words)

  
 Rio 2007 Pan American Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We want that these young people, who are expected to bring results in 2008, acquire experience in Games at RIO 2007, living a multisport event and the live experience in a Village", revealed Masback.
RIO 2007 presentation was made by CO-RIO General Secretary, Carlos Roberto Osorio, and CO-RIO General Manager, Agberto Guimarães.
RIO 2007 must receive the largest American delegation in the history of the Pan American Games.
www.cob.org.br /pan2007/ingles/noticias_det.asp?id=2042   (423 words)

  
 CIFA > News > Press Release
They also took the Champion of Rio de Janeiro trophy and were runners up for the Rio de Janeiro Regional Championship in 2002.
I think is a good opportunity to put football here in the top sport of the country.” Tinoco added that he wanted to give every one that was interested men, women and children a chance to play.
The Cayman Islands Football Association has already started to put things in place for Tinoco, “The Association is pleased to have someone of Marcos’s caliber on board, he comes very highly recommended both by the Brazilian Football Federation and Marcio Maximo.
www.caymanfootball.ky /news/releases/newCoach.htm   (342 words)

  
 Carioca bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Logo for Carioca Bowl VI Rio de Janeiro holds an annual american football championship played on the beach by local teams.
Since this is still an amateur sport with very little sponsoring, every team is required to send Referees, Umpires, Line and Back Judges and Commissioners to a certain number of games (though naturally, a game in which they, or their teams, are not playing); these games are also determined before the season commences.
For example, if three teams each have 5 wins, the first place team will be the one with perfect attendance, the second place team will be the one with an official who was late to a game, and the third place team will be the one which has a referee who missed a game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carioca_bowl   (760 words)

  
 Rio strains after past glories | csmonitor.com
It is the fashion capital of South America, headquarters to most of Brazil's TV channels and best newspapers, and the city the new president and the country's big political parties chose as their base.
In the annual tournament played earlier this year between the top teams from both states, none of the Rio sides made the final four, while in the Brazilian Cup the best a Rio team could do was reach the quarterfinals.
Rio's biggest club, Flamengo, owes the government tens of millions of dollars in back taxes and was evicted from its training ground after failing to pay rent.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/1120/p07s01-woam.html   (862 words)

  
 Fateful Final: 1950 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã - Brazilmax.com
Rio boasts the Sugar Loaf Mountain, Copacabana Beach and the Christ statue on Corcovado, a 700m-high granite outcrop adorned by jungle.
The new football stadium was to be as audacious and dramatic - a vast concrete ellipse capable of holding 183,000 spectators, 43,000 more than the largest at the time, Hampden Park in Glasgow, and five times the size of the next stadium in Rio, Vasco’s São Januário.
Football’s shrine was as quiet as a tomb.
www.brazilmax.com /news4.cfm/tborigem/fe_sports/id/4   (2582 words)

  
 Brazilian Football Clubs: Rio de Janeiro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Botafogo is the name of a district in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Flamengo is a district in Rio de Janeiro.
At the club website they say the eight stars on the flag stand for the Championship won by the club in 1945, the two South American Championships in 1948 and 1998, the Mercosul/Mercosur Championship in 2000, and the four Brazilian Championships in 1974, 1989, 1997 and 2000.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br@rio.html   (245 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - CART threatens to cancel Rio race - Friday February 09, 2001 12:10 AM
"The city of Rio de Janeiro has failed to meet the terms and conditions of its contract with CART," CART president and chief executive officer Joseph Heitzler said in a statement Thursday.
A Rio 200 promoter and a former CART driving champion were expected to discuss possible options at CART's Troy headquarters Friday.
A new administration in Rio de Janeiro had placed all existing city contracts, including the race scheduled for March 25, under review.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2001/02/08/cart_rio_ap   (289 words)

  
 NFL.com - International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first is a full-contact game featuring teams from the Brazilian Carioca League followed by a flag football match between clubs from San Paulo, Brazil's largest city.
Interest in American football in Brazil is on the rise.
The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated.
www.nfl.com /international/story/6302149   (334 words)

  
 Funny | Footballclips.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Manchester team including the Neville brothers(Girls) are seen running for cover.
Sir Alex Ferguson is seen laughing with his team abandoning him on the pitch.
We have a match between the two teams that play on the same stadium: San Siro in Milano.
www.footballclips.net /football/funny   (477 words)

  
 Cup 'different, not defensive' - Football - Fox Sports
"The football was not defensive, it was a case of teamwork prevailing."
Parreira bombarded his audience with statistics but said there were no major tactical innovations in the tournament.
He has been criticised for being overcautious and failing to get the best out of Brazil's talented team, which started as hot favourite to win a sixth world title.
www.foxsports.com.au /story/0,8659,20887122-23215,00.html   (308 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Football marketing firm Globo TV Sports launches website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The site www.globotvsports.com includes updated information about football matches of the Brazilian Championship, São Paulo Championship, Rio de Janeiro Championship and the Brazilian Cup, in addition to the history of the most important Brazilian teams and timetables of the next games.
Next month, the site will be completed and will include interviews with several football stars and daily bulletins with behind-the-scene information about the most popular sport in Brazil.
Under the Brazilian Magic Football brand, the distributor’s package includes 82 live games of the Brasileiro (Brazilian National Championship), Carioca (Rio de Janeiro Championship), Paulista (São Paulo Championship) and Copa do Brasil (Brazilian Cup) championships, for the 2006 to 2008 seasons.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k6/jan/jan314.htm   (265 words)

  
 The Maracana stadium,Botafogo,Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Botafogo football club is in constant rivalry with Flamengo and Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro.
Fluminense football club is traditionally the upper class team in Rio de Janeiro.
Vasco da Gama football club was created and funded by the Portuguese colony of Rio de Janeiro.
www.copacabana.info /Maracana.html   (872 words)

  
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