Archive for May, 2010

I would like to take the time to thank the men and women of Unites States military who gave their lives so that we can live in freedom.

This is what Memorial Day is all about. We honor our war dead who gave their lives to make this the greatest country on earth.

 Let freedom ring.

We will resume normal Futebol stuff on Tuesday June 1.

Praise be to God on high for the freedom that we have today. The God I am speaking about is The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of the Bible and my saviour Jesus.

Finally, Flamengo Prez Patricia Amorim gets it right. The dumbo finally decided to do the right thing and sign midfielder Petkovic to a deal that will keep him with Mengao until December 2011.

 Globo Esporte put it this way-Radiante de alegria, Petkovic concedeu entrevista coletiva nesta sexta-feira e confirmou a renovação de contrato até dezembro de 2011. Distribuindo alfinetadas pela maneira com que foi tratado na Gávea nos primeiros meses deste ano, o jogador afirmou que pretende voltar a usar a camisa 10, já que Adriano foi embora, e encerrar a carreira pelo Flamengo.

This is about time.

The clown Amorim let Adriano go and shortly thereafter Vagner Love will take a hike.

We need all the help we can get.

Mengao has a huge match against Gremio on Saturday at Maracanã.

We lost our last outing against Fluminense 2-1 at Rubro-Negro’s house on Wednesday.

Fluminense killed us.

Po-de-arroz flat out ripped our lips off.

Love and the guys need to step it up a notch and in the words of Oakland Raider Prez Al Davis, “Just win baby.”

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We are four games into the 2010 Campeonato de Brasil and Corinthians is top dog with 10 points. Santos and Cruzeiro are tied for second with eight points.

Mengao is in eleventh place with five points.

Sao Paulo is seventh place with seven points.

At this point last year Flamengo was playing like crap. Rubro-Negro was near the bottom of the table but this year is totally different.

The idiot Prez Patricia Amorim took over the reigns in December 2009 and we have lost two of our top players and  she fired headman Andrade who led us to the title last year.

Fools will be fools. Patricia is king fool.

Vagner Love is on the way out to.

UOL reported that leave will Flamengo in July-O atacante Vagner Love deve deixar o Flamengo ao fim de seu contrato de empréstimo firmado com o CSKA de Moscou, em julho. Seu destino no segundo semestre, porém, pode ser o futebol ucraniano, uma vez que o time russo estaria interessado em trocá-lo pelo centroavante Guilherme, ex-Cruzeiro.

It looks Vagner Love is headed back to Russia.

 UOL further added-O atacante pertence ao Dínamo de Kiev e atua sob empréstimo na equipe moscovita. Por seu bom desempenho, a diretoria do CSKA estaria interessada em mantê-lo em seu elenco, enviando Love aos ucranianos como forma de compensação. A informação havia sido antecipada pelo blogueiro.

The future is not bright for us Flamenguistas.

Corinthians on the other hand was near the top of the table for most of last year but Timao fell off and finished tenth.

Vasco was newly promoted and they are near the butt end of the table.

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Mengao has a huge match with Fluminense on Wednesday at Maracanã.

Vagner Love and the guys need to step it up big time.

Adriano has left for Italy.

Se coincidiam no fato de buscarem afirmação em momento de reformulação, Fluminense e Flamengo entraram em campo de formas distintas. O Tricolor com força máxima. Dúvida até o início da partida, Fred se recuperou de dores na coxa direita e foi para o clássico. Já o Rubro-Negro entrou remendado. Sem Adriano, uma ausência definitiva, o treinador Rogério Lourenço também não pôde contar com Kleberson, Fierro (convocados para a Copa), Willians (fratura na mão), Michael (tendinite) e Petkovic (dores na coxa).

This leaves Rubro-Negro in a severe shortage of striker power.

Guess what Mengao stunk the joint out at Maracanã in a 2-1 loss to Fluminense.

Mengao now drops to eighth place while Fluminense is now in fifth place.

Po-de- arroz took to Mengao early and often.

Acabou o jejum! Dois anos, três meses e 16 dias depois dos 4 a 1 – com show de Thiago Neves – pela Taça Guanabara de 2008, o Fluminense voltou a vencer o Flamengo. Fazendo-se valer de um adversário desmantelado e, principalmente, do nítido padrão de jogo implementado por Muricy Ramalho, o Tricolor sobrou no gramado do Maracanã e fez 2 a 1 na noite desta quarta-feira, em partida válida pela quarta rodada do Brasileirão.

Rodriguinho ripped the twines in the 9^th minute to give Fluminense a 1-0 lead.

It should have been more but Po-de arroz couldn’t connect.

Após sofrer o gol, o Fla tentou ensaiar uma reação. Aos 12, Toró invadiu a área e caiu após passar por Conca. O árbitro Marcelo de Lima Henrique o mandou se levantar, não considerando que houve pênalti. Ataques rubro-negros, no entanto, eram raridade, e o Flu massacrava. Assim como no clássico do Carioca, deixava a impressão de que poderia golear a qualquer momento, mas desperdiçava boas oportunidades.

Dario Conca nailed a perfect winner in the 55^th minute for a 2-0 Po-de-arroz advantage.

Turn out the lights the party’s over.

Bruno added Flamengo’s lone marker in the 90^th minute.

We are in a world of hurt.  

At this rate, Mengao will get sent down.

We stink big time.

Thank you Patricia for your stellar leadership.

You are taking Rubro-Negro straight to hell.

I guess this was your plan all along.

Our idiot coach tried a mix and match attack. Guess what? It didn’t work.

This clown needs to be fired.

Completamente dominado na primeira etapa, Rogério Lourenço tentou colocar o Flamengo na partida apostando em uma formação ofensiva na volta para o segundo tempo. Diego Maurício e Ramon entraram nas vagas de Vinícius Pacheco e Rômulo. Não deu certo. Com maior organização evidente dentro de campo, o Fluminense não foi tão incisivo no campo de ataque, mas seguiu dominando o jogo.

Mengao has one win, one loss, and two draws.

This is not good.

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Flamengo is in complete disarray. Mengao is on the verge of collapse. The idiot new President Patricia Amorim has taken a good team and now she has led it to destruction.

The first thing she does is send her lackie out to meet the press instead of answering the hard questions about your stupid running of Rubro-Negro.

GM Gilmar Rinadli took the heat.

As faltas de Adriano foram motivo de críticas e sermões de Patrícia Amorim no início da gestão. Mas na hora de explicar a iminente saída do atacante e outras questões relacionadas ao futebol, a presidente não apareceu e deixou o empresário Gilmar Rinaldi sozinho diante dos jornalistas. Ele, estranhamente, negou as evidências.

Adriano first said he would stay back in December but I bet dollars to holes in a doughnut that when Patricia Amorim was selected as the new Prez it would be a disaster.

Adriano teve propostas em dezembro e decidiu ficar naquela hora. Agora, as propostas voltaram. A Patrícia está ciente do que está acontecendo e demonstrou interesse de que ele permaneça. Vou conversar com o Adriano e saber dele. Em um ou dois dias teremos a definição se ele volta para a Europa – declarou.

Entretanto, ao avaliar o último ano de Adriano, Gilmar Rinaldi adotou um discurso de “fim de festa”.

Now our best striker is gone.

Vagner Love will be the next one to go.

Mengao needs to forget this bullshit and man up play tough against Fluminense Wednesday at Maracanã.

We knew the Emperor was outta here on Sunday.

Foram muitas polêmicas, gols e um título histórico. Mas o reinado chegou ao fim. Se o imperador Adriano original dominou Roma por 21 anos no século II, o Adriano do Flamengo foi anarquista por pouco mais de 12 meses. O suficiente para marcar o nome na galeria de ídolos do clube. O GLOBOESPORTE.COM apurou que o jogador já avisou aos companheiros e amigos que não fica. Ele tem passagem comprada para a Itália no início de junho, onde, se tudo acontecer conforme o esperado, assinará contrato com o Roma, e desfrutará de um período de férias ao lado de alguns (ex-)companheiros rubro-negros. Será o “bota-fora” imperial (assista no vídeo aos gols da estreia de Adriano, em maio de 2009 – Flamengo 2 x 1 Atlético-PR).

Us Flamenguistas are in for a long season

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Mengao escaped with a 3-1 win over Gremio-Prudente at Maracanã.

Several key players were missing- O primeiro passo ocorreu neste domingo. Mesmo sem Adriano, com dores na coxa, e ainda apresentando falhas defensivas, o time foi superior ao adversário e venceu com gols de Vagner Love (2) e Juan, subindo para o sétimo lugar. Agora, no mesmo palco, os compromissos serão contra o Fluminense, nesta quarta-feira, às 19h30, e Grêmio, no sábado, às 18h30.

Flamengo jumped out an early 1-0 lead just before half time.

Love PK ripped the twines in the in the 47^th minute of the first half to be exact.

Camacho made a great run into the box. This forced the Gremio-Prudente defender to tackle his butt.

Instant presto PK to Love.

The love child strikes for gold.

Gremio-Prudente nailed the equalizer in the 48^th minute to tie this sucker up at one all. Wanderley received a great thru ball from mate Henrique Dias.

He flat out beat Bruno dead to rights. Bruno tried a half assed kick save. Not. Buda bing, Buda boom the ball crawls over the goal line and into the back of the net.

Bruno you lazy bum, stop the ball. Don’t get cute.

Cute could have cost us the match. 

Juan saved Rubro-Negro’s bacon when he found the back of the net in the 87^th minute.

Juan took it straight to the rack. He lifted the ball over the defenseless keeper top shelf left near post.

Way to go garoto.

Vagner Love sealed the deal for Mengao on a PK shot in the 89^th minute for a 3-1 win.

Diego Mauricio made the Gremio-Prudente defense look like schoolgirls.

Again, this forced the take down in the box.

By the way, this was a great WWF move by Gremio-Prudente defender.

Whew, this was close.

Love hit the daily double via the PK route.

Flamengo is not playing very well.

This was our first win of the season.

Rubro-Negro has one win and two ties.

We needed this win big time.

UOL put it this way- O Flamengo deu o primeiro passo para começar a amenizar a dor do seu torcedor pela eliminação da Libertadores. Na noite deste domingo, em um Maracanã vazio, a equipe carioca marcou dois gols no fim e derrotou o Grêmio Prudente por 3 a 1, pela terceira rodada do Brasileirão.

The crazy thing was this on 7,742 folks showed up to see Flamengo play.

Não foi fácil, mas o atual campeão brasileiro conseguiu a primeira vitória na competição nacional deste ano. Em um jogo cujos problemas do ano se repetiram, o Flamengo sofreu, mas venceu o Grêmio Prudente por 3 a 1, no Maracanã. O público foi muito reduzido: 7.747 pessoas, sendo apenas 3.978 pagantes. Vagner Love, duas vezes de pênalti, e Juan fizeram os gols. Após três rodadas, O Flamengo pulou para cinco pontos e está na sétima posição. Os paulistas ficam com três, em 14º. O próximo jogo será contra o Fluminense, quarta-feira, também no Maracanã, às 19h30m.

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Mengao has huge match on Sunday against Gremio Barueri at Maracanã. We have two ties and Flamengo really needs a kick butt win today.

Both Adriano and Vagner Love need to pedal it into the next gear.

Mengao cannot afford to fall too far off the pace.

Both Botafogo and Palmeiras won on Saturday.

Fogao and Alviverde is a top the table with seven points.

Corinthians have a perfect six points out of six possible points so far.

Timao battles Fluminense today.

Po-de-arroz has one win and one loss.

Sao Paulo is struggling big time but this is par for the course for Tricolor. Sao Paulo has made to the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores.

The Copa will resume after the World Cup is done.

Watch out for the evil empire can now play their best players when Sao Paulo takes on Internacional.

After Sunday’s play, Campeonato do Brasil has four more matches until the break for World Cup on June 6.

Then it is back to the daily grind.

Rubro-Negro needs to get off to a hot start if we are going to have a chance of a two-peat.

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The special one Jose Mourinho did at Internazionale what he couldn’t do at Chelsea win the Champions League.

Internazionale took it to Bayern Munich 2-0.

The Italian side scored two second half goals to win going away.

Bayern had most of the possessions but Internazionale played steel curtain defense.

This was like the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl Champs Mean Joe Green and the steel curtain “D”. 

Kick ass baby.

The crowned champion by the media Barcelona was knocked out in the round of 16.

So was Real Madrid the other paper champion in the round of 16 too.

Real Madrid had all this firepower. Little good this did. The fake Ronaldo fired blanks.

Internazionale was led by Alberto Diego Milito daily double-34^th and 70^th minutes.

Jose Mourinho has led FC Porto and Internazionale to Champions League titles.

This is good but the special one is a carpetbagger.

He is good at taking others peoples talent and winning but I would love to see the Mourinho man start from scratch and build a championship side.

Sir Alex and my main man Arsene Wenger are the master architects at taking nothing and building them into champions.

The rumor mills are talking that Mourinho is headed to Real Madrid.

What did I tell ya?

This is still a huge milestone for Jose Mourinho.

He joins Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld as the only other two managers to achieve this feat.

Bayern’s manager Luis Van Gaal led Ajax to the Champions League title in 1995 and he was seeking to accomplish the same feat.

Not on this day.

We two managers to join an elite group men.

This marks the first time in five years that an EPL side has not made to the finals.

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Mengao dug themselves into a huge hole. Sure, we won the battle but lost the war.

Flamengo defeated Universidad de Chile 2-1 in Santiago, Chile but Mengao lost on away goal difference.

Both Adriano and Vagner Love tickled the twines but Chile’s lone goal in the 63^rd killed Flamengo.

Globo Esporte put it this way-O império caiu, é verdade. Mas foi de pé. Maltratado e massacrado por ofensas como reino do colesterol dias antes do duelo, o Flamengo não conseguiu o improvável. Venceu por 2 a 1 o Universidad de Chile, em Santiago, mas despediu-se da Taça Libertadores.

UOL had this say-Flamengo jogou com raça, lutou, derrotou o Universidade do Chile por 2 a 1, no Estádio Santa Laura, nesta quinta-feira, em Santiago, mas não se classificou à semifinal da Copa Libertadores da América. O time rubro-negro precisava de mais um, pois foi derrotado no Maracanã por 3 a 2.

We lost so we now have to deal with it.

Universidad de Chile ripped Rubro-Negro at Maracanã 3-2. This was the difference. Sure both sides were tied four all on goals but that pesky three away goals sent Mengao packing.

O Rubro-Negro precisava vencer por dois gols de diferença, ou por um a partir de 4 a 3. E fez um ótimo primeiro tempo. Em jogada combinada de Love e Adriano, o camisa 9 abriu o placar. No segundo tempo, em um dos únicos vacilos defensivos, Montillo fez jogada genial e empatou. Em jogada igualmente brilhante, Adriano fez 2 a 1. Era pouco.

This stinks.

Bruno made some really great saves to keep Flamengo in the match.

At one point Bruno looked like a sitting duck in shooting gallery.

Adriano played great and so did Love.

The Emperor and Love played like they were on a mission. The Chile coach called them both fat.

Adriano and Vagner Love both said screw you. We will show you how good we both are.

Adriano e Vagner Love, chamados de “gordos” pelo treinador do Universidade do Chile Gerardo Pelusso, ficaram mordidos com as declarações e mostraram uma enorme disposição.

Adriano leg whipped a great bicycle kick into the center of the box. Vagner Love ripped the header in the 46^th minute to give Mengao a 1-0 lead at half.

Montillo fired a shot past the outstretched hands of Bruno in the 63^rd minute to this baby up at one all.

Adriano found the answer in the 77^th minute. The Emperor rifled a winner to give Mengao 2-1 edge.

It was too little too late.

This is the second straight year Mengao has bombed out in the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores.

The semifinals of the Copa Libertadores will be held after the World Cup.

Brasileiro side Sao Paulo advanced to semifinals along with Universidad de Chile, Chivas, and Internacional.

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Lots of crazy futebol news coming out of Argentina so lets get it on. First Boca Juniors stole Argentinos Juniors headman Claudio Borghi. Borghi led Argentinos Juniors to their first title in 25 years.

Los Xeneizos has stunk the joint out the past two years. They flat out stink.

Will this change the direction of the Boca Juniors ship?

We will find out.

The chief futebol idiot of the Argentina Maradona named his World Cup squad. Messi. Tevez and Gonzalo Higuain are the headline players.

Higuain, Tevez, and Messi give Maradona’s team real firepower up front.

Noticeably missing is Juan Riquelme.

Martin Palermo was selected.

Hopefully this experiment with the passer Maradona in charge will work out?

Lets see for I have serious doubts Maradona is the right man for the job.

If Maradona is such a good coach, how come Argentina was the last to make to the World Cup?

This is not a good sign.

Looking over the Argentinos side does look good.

Maxi Rodriquez, Javier Pastore, and Javier Mascherano will help solidify a great striker force.

Let’s hope Tevez doesn’t act the head case part like he did at Manchester United and now Manchester City.

We will talk about Flamengo Universidad de Chile on Saturday.

I am a Flamenguista through and through.

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