Rio de Janeiro: An inflatable model of Brazil's 2014 World Cup mascot, a smiling three-banded armadillo, has been removed after being attacked by vandals, the second such incident in less than a week. The seven-metre high inflatable armadillo was removed from its spot near Brasilia's Esplanade of the Ministries, an enormous boulevard flanked by public buildings, after youths attacked it with knives, Brazilian media said. Photographs showed a pile of...
03:18 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Sao Paulo: Kaka looks set to be picked by Brazil for the friendly against Iraq on Thursday, in what would mark his return to the national team for the first time since the 2010 World Cup. The Real Madrid midfielder practiced among the usual starters on Tuesday, playing alongside playmaker Oscar and strikers Hulk and Neymar ahead of the match in Sweden. Coach Mano Menezes has hinted that Kaka would...
01:25 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil national football team received a scare on the eve of its international friendly against Argentina when a violent storm forced its Resistencia-bound flight to deviate 300km from its original route. Relieved players and officials cheered and exchanged high-fives upon landing in the northern Argentine city Tuesday night according to reports. "We encountered a very strong line of instability and had to deviate the flight-path via Paraguay,"...
06:42 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Washington: The US has stepped up its efforts to attract more foreign tourists, in particular those from countries like India, China and Brazil, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasising on the need for a hassle fee visa processing and entry programmes for tourists. "We want to use our global reach and our diplomatic tools to help drive that economic growth here at home and to advance our strategic interests...
12:31 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: The arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed of attempts to stifle digital content. Legal experts said Thursday that Google violated a judge's order to take down videos on its YouTube subsidiary that target Brazilian political candidates " and that the judge was...
12:45 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: The Brazilian unit of Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, said on Thursday it had obeyed a court order to remove a video attacking a candidate in Brazilian municipal elections from its YouTube service after legal appeals were exhausted. "We are profoundly disappointed to not have the opportunity of openly debating our arguments in the electoral justice system that the videos were legitimate manifestations of...
04:54 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: A court in Brazil said it has ordered YouTube to remove clips of the movie that has touched off deadly protests across the Muslim world, the latest in a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against the video-sharing site in Rio De Janeiro. Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the site ten days to remove videos, which has raised the ire of many Muslims around the world....
09:28 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Sao Paulo: A judge has ordered the arrest of the president of Google's operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate. The order to arrest Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was issued Monday by Judge Flavio Peren of Mato Grosso do Sul state. It was prompted by two videos containing disparaging remarks against Alcides Bernal who is running for mayor of the city of Campo...
07:31 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Rio de Janerio: Novak Djokovic will play an exhibition match against retired champion Gustavo Kuerten in Brazil in November. Djokovic will play the three-time French Open champ to help inaugurate a tennis court in Rocinha shantytown, one of Latin America's largest slums. Djokovic will also play a football friendly before a Brazilian league match. He will join Serbian countryman Dejan Petkovic, who starred for several Brazilian clubs in the last...
11:52 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Goiania: Neymar converted a penalty in the final minute of injury time Wednesday to give Brazil a 2-1 win over Argentina in the first leg of the Superclassic of the Americas, a home-and-away series between the South American rivals with players from local clubs. Neymar scored from the penalty spot after the referee called a hand ball by an Argentine defender inside the area, helping Brazil coach Mano Menezes escape...
02:30 PM, Sep 20, 2012
The chance to feature at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is an extra motivation for Spain's veteran players, said coach Vicente del Bosque on the eve of their first qualifying match in Georgia. Spain's haul of two European Championship titles and one World Cup trophy in the last four years means they have eclipsed Brazil as the team to beat but the South Americans still hold a special place...
08:04 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Sao Paulo: A disappointing Brazil beat South Africa 1-0 in a friendly on Friday but the lacklustre performance cast further doubts on coach Mano Menezes's future in the job. Menezes sent out an attacking team but they struggled to break down the dogged South Africans and the match was only decided in the 74th minute with a goal from second-half substitute Hulk. The striker signed by Zenit St Petersburg last...
03:34 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Moscow: Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg paid 40 million euros each for Brazil striker Hulk from Porto and Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel from Benfica, Zenit general director Maxim Mitrofanov said. Following reports in the Portuguese media that the true transfer fees were far higher than the 40 million euros originally reported by Zenit, Mitrofanov showed R-Sport the sale contracts for the players, which show the fee for each as 40...
03:57 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Zurich: Brazil stayed outside the top ten of FIFA's highly questioned ranking system on Wednesday, with England, Denmark and Greece all ahead of the five-times world champions. The South Americans, who hit an all-time low of 13th last month, climbed one place to 12th thanks to a 3-0 friendly win in Sweden. But their placing, one below Greece, is still surprisingly low as they have won 10 of their 13...
04:07 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Ferrai's Felipe Massa is back to training earlier than expected. It's summer break for Formula One and most drivers are busy mellowing out, recharging their batteries. But that's not the case with the Brazilian who got back behind the wheel at his local circuit of Interlagos for the fourth round of Brazil's Copa Fiat series. He did two practice sessions and was very impressive, setting times of 1m 51.411s and...
03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil football star Kaka is reportedly being sought by Los Angeles Galaxy as a possible replacement for Englishman David Beckham. Brazil's Estado de Sao Paulo reported the American club had identified the Real Madrid midfielder as the ideal candidate to take over from Beckham as the club's marquee player, reports Xinhua. Beckham, 37, is understood to be undecided about whether to continue beyond his current contract, which...
03:37 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Sao Paulo: Adidas has announced the short list of potential names for the 2014 World Cup ball and are asking fans to vote for their preferred candidate of quintessential Brazilian choices. The three names are Portuguese words and all are feminine, conforming to the Brazilian stereotype of the ball as a woman, to be caressed and cared for. One of the finalists is Carnavalesca, a word describing someone who plans...
11:22 AM, Aug 14, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's football confederation (CBF) has refused to guarantee the future of under-pressure coach Mano Menezes. Menezes, who is one of the few international coaches to be also in charge of his country's under-23 team, has faced calls for his sacking after Brazil's 1-2 loss to Mexico in Saturday's Olympics final, Xinhua reports. "The team is on the right track but that doesn't mean Mano will stay," CBF...
05:19 PM, Aug 13, 2012
London: Russia won the gold medal for the first time since 1980 with a come-from-behind five-set victory over Brazil on Sunday in the Olympic volleyball final. Second-ranked Russia dropped the first two sets before denying top-ranked Brazil match point twice to spark a comeback in the 19-25, 20-25, 29-27, 25-22, 15-9 victory, paced by 7-foot-2 middle blocker Dmitriy Muserskiy with 31 points. The Russian celebration was delayed at the end...
08:23 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Wembley: Oribe Peralta scored just 29 seconds into the Olympic final and added another goal in the second half to help Mexico stun Brazil 2-1 on Saturday and win its first gold in football. Peralta took advantage of a mistake by the Brazilian defense in the game's opening minute and slotted a low right-foot shot into the net. It was the fastest Olympic goal in at least 36 years, since...
09:34 PM, Aug 11, 2012
