Brazilian Soccer Survives Transfer Period

Vagner Love

The season’s first transfer period ended yesterday without causing the usual damage to Brazilian teams. Although first division teams sold (and lent) more players than they hired, it is clear that the teams elected to invest in keeping their best players. Twenty-six players were transferred to foreign teams. Most of them were not among their coaches’ More...

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