Everyone knows how soccer is Brazilian national sport and blahblahblah. There are several leagues every year - state leagues for most Brazilian states, minor regional leagues, 2 national Cups among the country’s most important teams and the South-American Cup, Libertadores da America or “America Liberators”, the South-American counterpart to Eurocup. The winner of Libertadores is one of the teams who play the FIFA Club World Cup. Among the club supporters nationwide one of the most known for its supporters fanaticism and motivation is the Gremio from Porto Alegre (Fifa Club World Cup champion in 1983).
Yesterday Gremio qualified to the final match of Libertadores (which it won twice) and I told Ira if it did, I’d publish a post about it here. So here it is. It was a dramatic match against Santos (who also won two Cups) and not decided until the last minute, as good soccer match must be, heh.
But Gremio supporters are famous by their “avalanches” (human landslides) after a goal scored by the team. Bellow you can see Danny Dyer talking about Gremio in a real match footage last year in Porto Alegre. Danny is a British reporter whose show/documentary - The Real Football Factories International - was broadcast in UK by Bravo last 25th may.
As a curiosity, Ronaldinho started his successful career at Gremio and won a Brazilian League in 2001 with the team. And, yep, Porto Alegre is my hometown and, yep, Gremio is the soccer team I support.
In this type of Cowboy Football (soccer) Game you can have three goal keepers… it is much more efficient, believe me. One above the cross bars, looking “where on hell is that d… ball” and two, inside the bars, ready to fight with paws and corns, I mean, heads “against that d… ball”!
Sorry, for a moment have arisen that d… hooligan who lives inside me…
“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competency.”
“I am honoured in dedicate him (Senninha) to all young people and kids who has supported me…”
I was 7 when Pele retired from soccer. Though I remember his last official match in USA Cosmos, I’ve never saw he actually playing in a true world class league team. So for all of you like me who never saw Pele actually playing, the video above (yep, this is Ira’s fault, heh).
I have told you about Pelé –so, here you can see, in this homage, our hero – I mean the Martinican hero, Pelé – making a goal and Stallone playing a very fine football!
