Eagles and Packers Face Off in Historic Brazil Opener: A Tale of Contrasting Seasons In mid-November of last year, the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers occupied opposite ends of the NFL landscape. By season’s end, their fortunes had reversed dramatically. The NFL’s pace of change is evident in Friday night’s historic matchup in Brazil, […]
“The style of play changed and it took away some of our creativity. Our football used to be very joyful. Now it has become more mechanical.” On the synthetic pitch, he trains seven- to 10-year-olds who dream of following in the footsteps of Vinicius, the academy's most famous graduate. The next generation still has football […]
Heavy rains lashed Rio Grande do Sul last September as an extratropical cyclone caused flooding that killed more than 50 people. This came after more than two years of continuous drought due to the La Niña phenomenon, which produced only scant rainfall. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traveled to the state on Thursday to […]
However, Brazil does not extradite its citizens, and Italy said Robinho should serve his sentence in his home country. The footballer, who protests his innocence, told Brazilian network TV Record in an interview broadcast on Sunday that the sex was “consensual”. “I never denied it (the encounter),” he said. I could have denied it because […]
A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced former Brazil international Dani Alves to four and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. “The victim did not consent and there is evidence that, beyond the testimony of the complainant, allows rape to be […]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, without naming his Brazilian counterpart, attacked “the leaders who cruelly impose Hitler’s evil deeds on the nation state of the Jewish people”. He said that doing so would be an “immoral distortion of history”. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Galant, meanwhile, called Lula’s comments “outrageous and disgusting”. “Brazil has stood with Israel […]
Driver Claudio Auvarenga, 64, arrived early to be among the first to pass the coffin. “You can travel around the world, you will only find one Zagalo. No one else in history has won four World Cups,” he told AFP. Ileana Gaia, 66, Zagallo’s longtime assistant, called him “a man without equal.” “He was a […]
FIFA confirmed on Friday that disciplinary proceedings have been launched into the football federations of Brazil and Argentina over the delay in the start of 2026 World Cup qualifying matches. Tuesday’s match at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium, which world champions Argentina won 1-0, was delayed for almost half an hour after rival fans started […]
Fossil dinosaur “trackways”, as scientists call them, were first found in the 1980s by Italian priest and paleontologist Giuseppe Leonardi in what is today the city of Araraquara in São Paulo state. Leonardi donated to the Brazilian Museum of Earth Sciences (MCTER) in 1984 one of the footprint specimens found in the so-called Botucatu Formation, […]
Argentina beat Brazil 1-0 in 2026 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday, after kick-off was delayed due to crowd trouble before the match. Veteran defender Nicolas Otamendi’s 63rd-minute header ensured Argentina’s victory as the world champions bounced back from last week’s defeat to Uruguay to beat their arch South American rivals. The victory at Rio’s iconic […]
Kaio Wesley, 25, who tried to carry four liters of water, described organizers’ attitude of restricting entry of liquids as “selfish”. “I brought all this water to see how long I can survive,” he told AFP. Brazil’s Justice Ministry published a proposal on Saturday requiring event organizers to guarantee that fans have access to drinking […]
At least 522 seals and sea lions have been found dead off the coast of southern Brazil, officials said Wednesday, with officials blaming avian flu for the deaths. Brazil declared an animal health emergency over avian flu in May after several cases were confirmed in wild birds, and last month reported the first outbreak of […]