Fatty Vasco de Gama Players Face Fines
By: Daryl |
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Vasco de Gama are in trouble. The usually pretty successful club (they’ve won a Brazilian championship in every decade since the ’70s, and the Copa Libertadores in 1998) are currently in the bottom four of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, so if the season ended right now they’d be relegated to Série B.
Perhaps worse is [...]
Category: South America
Footballer Fired for Being Too Fat
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Fat footballers are part of the modern game. Whether it’s players actually letting themselves go (see: Ronaldinho recently) or players who get lumped with the overweight label because it’s easy alliteration (see: “Fat” Frank Lampard). It’s a phenomenon that goes all the way back to William Fatty Foulke, who really deserved the title.
But no professional [...]
Category: World FootballDoes Ronaldinho Look Like an Olympic Athlete to You in This Picture?
By: Daryl | 17 Comments
Word recently was that the great once great Ronaldinho was keen to go to Beijing as one of the all-important over-age players in Brazil’s Olympic soccer squad.
Apparently Ronaldinho’s recovered from the thigh problem that kept him out of the Barcelona team for the latter part of 2007/8. Unfortunately Ronaldinho seems to have forgotten that “thigh [...]
Category: World Football
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