Will Kaka ever get back?

One of the greatest Brazilian revelations of the past years, Kaka played his third world cup last summer. This time, he was considered the Brazilian hope towards the title, but failed to accomplish the leader position.
It is undeniable that Kaka is an incredible player, but lesion after lesion are disrupting him from being what he proved he was capable of.

Kaka started playing at Sao Paulo Football Club, when he was eighteen. Short after, he transferred for AC Milan, where he lived the best moments of his career. With the Italian team, Kaka won the UEFA Champions League and also the FIFA Golden Ball of Best Player of The Year, in 2007.

Looking for a bigger space on the media, Kaka paired with Cristiano Ronaldo and transferred for Spanish Real Madrid on the summer of 2009.

That's when the lesions began. Kaka suffered a hard lesion on the pubic area, and stayed far away from the fields for a long time.

A patriotic act towards the Brazilian National Team almost disrupt his career. Kaka decided to play the 2010 World Cup even being hurt, with made his lesion get even worse. Short after the World Cup, he had a knee surgery.

Kaka is expected to come back to the fields soon, and the ones that knows how great he is have no doubt that the boy has everything to keep presenting a high level soccer performance.


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Where is he? - Ronaldinho

When Brazil was eliminated by Netherlands on the 2010 FIFA World Cup, I heard this phrase a lot:
"That wasn't a surprise. How could the Brazilian coach not pick Ronaldinho?"

Well, on these cases, I didn't know what to answer, due to the fact that I couldn't agree more. Though he isn't living the greatest moment on his carrer, Ronaldinho stills being one of the greatest Brazilian players.

Born March, 21st 1980 in Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil,  Ronaldinho started his brilliant professional carrer at  F.P.A. Gremio. During this time, he played against former Brazilian coach Dunga several times. Dunga was a defense man for Gremio's arch rival S.C. Internacional.

Some might say that Dunga doesn't like Ronaldinho because of the following:


In 2001, Ronaldinho signed a five year contract with French team Paris Saint-Germain, where he was one of the team's highlights. Though, he didn't reach the spotlight until 2002 FIFA World Cup.



2002 FIFA World Cup - The Beginning of the Glory

Though the team had great names in it's schedule, Brazil had a hard time qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, played in Korea and Japan. The team just secured a spot in the Cup after the last round of the qualifying, when coach Luiz Felipe Scolari took over as coach.

The history in the World Cup, though, was might different. Counting with experienced players such as Ronaldo and Rivaldo and debuting players such as Kaka and the promising Ronaldinho, Brazil finished the group phase on the first position.

After beating Belgium at the eight-of-finals,Brazil faced the dangerous England. It was one of the best games of that World Cup. Or better saying: nerve hacking. That's the best definition for this match.

England scored first with Owen, after a mistake of one of the best Brazilian defense man Lucio. But the Latinos didn't lowered their heads.

That was the time for him to emerge. Ronaldinho got the ball on the middle field, and went all the way to the goal area, finding invisible spots between the English players. He passed the ball to Rivaldo, that kicked hard and tied the match.

On the beginning of the second half, though, Ronaldinho decided to win the match for the Brazilian team, doing THAT:

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Four rounds, three names

The 2010 Brazilian Championship is slowly coming to an end. And at this point, only three teams have true chances win: Fluminense, Cruzeiro and Corinthians.

Little changed during this weekend round, since the three teams won their games.


Fluminense leads the Championship with 61 points. Only one point over Corinthians and Fluminense, that are  tied on the second place with 60 points.

Still, there are nine points to be disputed, and lots can happen.

The last three Brazilian Championships (2008,2009 and 2010) showed a new tendency. On these years, the champion was decided on the very last round.

That didn't happen for example, on 2003 and 2007. On these years, Cruzeiro (2003) and Sao Paulo (2007) mathematically won the championship way before the last round.

That's the Weekend Round Overview:

Saturday:

Ceara (Ceara) 1 x 5 Gremio (Rio Grande do Sul)


Internacional (Rio Grande do Sul) 2 x 2 Atletico - GO (Goias)


Santos(Sao Paulo) 2 x 2 Atletico - MG (Minas Gerais)


Sunday:


Goias (Goias) 1 x 4 Gremio Barueri (Sao Paulo)



Botafogo (Rio de Janeiro) 0 x Avai (Santa Catarina)

Corinthians(Sao Paulo) 2 x 0 Sao Paulo(Sao Paulo)


Cruzeiro(Minas Gerais) 1 x 0 Vitoria(Bahia)


Atletico - PR(Parana) 1 x 0 Flamengo(Rio de Janeiro)


Fluminense(Rio de Janeiro) 1 x 0 Vasco(Rio de Janeiro)


Goias(Goias) 0 x 1 Palmeiras(Sao Paulo)
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