Brazilian Soccer Survives Transfer Period
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...
His Formula-One Days are not Over
If there was any hope for Rubens Barrichello, 39, it ended yesterday on the F-1 circuit with the announcement that the Indian driver, Narain Karthikeyan, would occupy the last unclaimed cockpit in the category. More...
Lionsraw: Football Fans Create Chance For Change
The World Cup may be three years away, but the global football movement, Lionsraw, is already making plans to bring 500 football fans to Curitiba during the tournament. But this is no ordinary football tour. Lionsraw More...
Football Stars Draw 22,000 to Help Victims in Paraná and Japan
More than 22,000 fans watched the Solidarity Match held on April 7, 2011, in the Arena da Baixada, which brought together such stars of world football as Zico, Romario, and Rai in the Friends of Japan vs. Friends More...
Paraná May Host Foreign Teams During World Cup
After visiting seven cities in Paraná, the World Cup in Paraná Committee secretaries Mario Celso Cunha and Luiz de Carvalho, the latter responsible for Curitiba, concluded the evaluation of locations that could More...
Minister Orlando Silva Criticizes Infraero
The Ministers for Sport, Orlando Silva Junior, and Tourism, Luiz Barretto, expressed their concern for the Brazilian airport situation on November22 in Rio de Janeiro, where they participated in the opening ceremony More...
Barigui Park Features Three New Footsack Courts
Curitiba has opened its first public footsack courts, installed in Barigui Park by the Municipal Secretary of the Environment. Three courts are now being used by players of the sport. Footsack combines the techniques More...
FIFA World Cup in Curitiba
In 1950, Brazil was the host of an atypical World Cup. Only 13 teams competed on that occasion. The normal number of teams competing in the World Cup at that time was 16. The reason for the fewer teams was the aftereffects More...
The Women of the World Cup
By B. Michael Rubin With Brazil’s loss in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals against The Netherlands, there were a great number of people, every Brazilian to be exact, who had an opinion as to what went wrong More...
Rugby and Soccer: Two Sports, Same DNA
By Igor Christopher Seibel History tells us that rugby was created accidentally during a soccer game in the 19th century at Rugby School, a traditional school in the United Kingdom now made famous by this accident. More...