Brazil Sports

Brazil SportsMore than scores, we explore the Brazilian sport's powerful stories and business side.

🤔 Does Brazil actually like football?

A major study on Brazilian football fan preferences and behaviors gives fascinating insight about supporters of the beautiful game in the “land of football.”

Euan Marshall

Aug 16, 2025

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🏇 Saddled with debt

A symbol of elite tradition, Brazil’s jockey clubs are mired in debt and risk losing prime real estate.

Isabela Cruz

Aug 9, 2025

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🏆 Brazil’s indigenous champions league

Brazil has launched its first indigenous-only sports tournament, backed by top officials. Organizers hope it’s more than just a game: they want lasting inclusion where past efforts fell short.

Lucas Berti, +1

Aug 2, 2025

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✋😛🤚 The Neymar Cost

Neymar’s return to Santos was met with immense expectation, and while the signing has ignited a marketing boom, the substantial cost involved in the deal casts a shadow over his homecoming

Euan Marshall

Jul 26, 2025

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🍆 The Vampetaço: a very Brazilian protest

Donald Trump and the USTR have been on the receiving end of a very peculiar social media protest from Brazilian users, one that pops up any time anyone criticizes a source of national pride.

Euan Marshall

Jul 19, 2025

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🏟️ Maracanazo, the loss that changed Brazil

75 years on, Brazil has long recovered from the 1950 Maracanazo. But what was once a “national tragedy” can now be understood as a crucial moment in Brazilian (and global) football history

Euan Marshall

Jul 12, 2025

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📊 7 on the pitch, millions on Twitch

Kings League, the 7-a-side football variant invented by Gerard Piqué, has enjoyed serious success in its first year in Brazil.

Euan Marshall

Jul 5, 2025

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⚽ Bigging up the Brazilians

All four Brazilian clubs have qualified for the last 16, taking a few high-profile European scalps along the way. Are sides from Brazil much better than we assumed?

Euan Marshall

Jun 28, 2025

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🏆 The ‘perfect’ football team, 55 years on

The Brazil team that won the 1970 World Cup is adored for its technical skill and style, but its physical preparation set an example to be followed for the rest of football’s history

Euan Marshall

Jun 21, 2025

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🌎 Brazil cares about the Club World Cup

Disparaged in parts of Europe and ridiculed for its poor ticket sales, the new Club World Cup has caused absolute frenzy in Brazil, whose participant clubs are desperate to win it

Euan Marshall

Jun 14, 2025

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🤔 Which Brazilian team are you?

Brazilian league football rolls on throughout the English summer, while the Premier League’s clubs enjoy their time off. But if you’re still desperate for your football fix ...

Euan Marshall

Jun 7, 2025

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🏆 Brazil in the Champions League

In the 21st century, Brazilian players have been ever-present in Champions League finals. Meaning Simone Inzaghi would be wise not to bench left-back Carlos Augusto ...

Euan Marshall

May 31, 2025

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💼 Meet the new boss ...

After weeks of bad press, Brazil’s football elites will elect a new CBF president on Sunday — and will hope the appointment of Carlo Ancelotti takes the spotlight off them for a while

Euan Marshall

May 24, 2025

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🏈 Brazil’s unflagging Olympic ambition

With the official entry of flag football into the schedule for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, we take a look at how the sport is progressing in Brazil

Euan Marshall

May 17, 2025

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🦅 Corinthians fans pitch in

Fans of Corinthians have spent six months trying to help the popular São Paulo football club pay off its stadium debts — and have raised only 5% of the target

Euan Marshall

May 10, 2025

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📱 The revolution will not be televised

From viral streamer to sports broadcasting innovator, Casimiro Miguel's CazéTV is reshaping Brazilian football coverage, offering free, engaging alternatives to traditional networks and captivating a new generation of fans

Euan Marshall

May 3, 2025

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🏓 Beating China at their own game?

Brazil’s Hugo Calderano made history this past weekend by winning the Table Tennis World Cup in Macao, the first time a non-Chinese player has ever won a table tennis tournament on Chinese soil

Euan Marshall

Apr 26, 2025

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⚽ Flick, flick, goal!

Known as a 20th century children’s pastime, button football is still alive and well in Brazil — as the dedication of one São Paulo bar proves

Euan Marshall

Apr 19, 2025

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🧩 Power, politics and the pitch

A recent magazine article detailed numerous scandals involving CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues, and the confederation is working to deflect the wave of criticism coming its way

Euan Marshall

Apr 12, 2025

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⚽ Brazil to go foreign-made?

With Dorival Júnior sacked, Brazil’s national team is on the verge of employing a foreigner to be permanent manager for the first time ever

Euan Marshall

Apr 5, 2025

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🤯 Calendar chaos

Of the many problems with Brazilian football, several can be traced back to its catastrophic fixture calendar, which gives no time for teams to rest or train and has a major effect on the spectacle

Euan Marshall

Mar 29, 2025

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🇧🇷🇦🇷 The biggest rivalry in world football?

Brazil and Argentina will face off once again on Tuesday, in a World Cup qualifier. We look at how this unique rivalry has evolved over the years

Euan Marshall

Mar 22, 2025

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🏎️ Brazil is back on the grid

For the first time since Felipe Massa in 2017, Brazil has a full-time driver in the Formula 1, as Gabriel Bortoleto makes his Grand Prix debut in Australia this weekend

Euan Marshall

Mar 15, 2025

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🌱 Footballers prefer it natural

Neymar takes the role of shop steward as players argue against artificial pitches in Brazil, but do their protests miss the target?

Euan Marshall

Mar 8, 2025

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⚽ Football or Carnival? 🎉 Or both?

As Carnival is here, we explain why some of São Paulo’s biggest football ultras groups are also major forces in the city’s highly competitive Carnival parades

Euan Marshall

Mar 1, 2025