For a long time, this blog has been a feed of links to articles I have written elsewhere. The idea was that all my work on Brazil would be i...

Dani Alves turned 37 earlier this year. He has made no secret of his desire to play at World Cup 2022, yet he will be pushing 40 by the time...

Thiago Silva is not fulfilling a lifetime ambition by moving to the Premier League.  He made it very clear that he wanted to stay at Paris S...

When Richarlison signed his first sponsorship deal with Nike, he did not celebrate or lord it over his team-mates. No, he went back to his d...

Alexandre Pato is still only 30 years old. It is really not difficult to conjure an alternate timeline in which he has racked up hundreds ...

Football and music have never collided as beautifully as they did in the song “Fio Maravilha”, Jorge Ben's nimble tribute to the Flameng...

Sandro Orlandelli, who spent a decade as Arsenal’s man in South America and later reprised that role for Manchester United, is under no illu...