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Currently out of Brasilia, the update ahead of tonight’s game is the shortest possible. What you need to know: After last week’s resounding 4-0 against Paraná, Scolari used the press conference to heavily – but nevertheless only between the lines – criticise president Tirone, vice-president Frizzo and juridical director Piraci de Oliveira. Scolari’s wish list [...]

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Earlier this week, the Brazilian Football Federation announced that six of Palmeiras’ home games in the first half of the 2012 Brazilian Championship will be played in the city of Barueri, in the outskirts of the metropolitan area of São Paulo. According to CBF, the decision was based on a request coming from the club [...]

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Without much noise and rather efficiently, Palmeiras are promoting a (European) spring cleaning (it’s actually autumn over here). Players have been leaving in a steady stream: Gerley and Chico are now defending first division teams Bahia and Coritiba respectively, while Tinga (Ceará), Fernandão (Atlético Paranaense) and recently also Pedro Carmona (São Caetano) will have to [...]

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Life’s a bitch and keeps the pace. This coming Wednesday will prove more important than Sunday ever was, as Palmeiras take on Paraná at the Durival Britto stadium in Curitiba. Paraná is a second division team – both nationally and in their state league – and have not done very well this year. The return [...]

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. The outcome of today’s quarter-final against Guarani in the São Paulo Championship was sort of outlined if considering Palmeiras’ inability to defeat Comercial in the last round before the knockout phase. Against Comercial – already relegated to the second division, with an interim coach, players on strike due to unpaid wages and with two [...]

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Deola reaches 100 This Sunday against Comercial in the last round of the pre-knockout phase of the São Paulo Cup, 28-year-old successor of Saint Marcos, Deola, completes 100 games for Palmeiras. Let’s hope that he will be able to look back on the game with pleasure and that three point will suffice to propel Palmeiras [...]

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Although the match could have gone either way – as both Guarani and especially Palmeiras blew many great opportunities to score – the result was not at all unfair. Guarani were the better team yesterday and at large dominated the show, setting the rhythm and really taking advantage of the nervousness they caused when putting [...]

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Divine Design Last Tuesday one of Brazil’s most respected and well known footballers turned 70: midfielder Ademir da Guia, aka “Divino” (the Divine) played a record 901 games for Palmeiras between 1961 and 1977, the year he retired from the pitch. A true palestrino in heart and soul, Ademir is a living memory of glorious [...]

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Today, after almost two months of waiting, supporters and the press were finally and formally introduced to Palmeiras’ latest player: multipurpose midfielder Wesley. The 24-year-old has signed a five-year contract with Palmeiras and expressed his gratitude and excitement for having arrived at a club with so much history. “I was doing fine at Werder Bremen [...]

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We picked up quite a number of things on our sonar last week… Check out the latest pings below! Medal to the Saint It was on Friday announced that President Dilma Rousseff will grant a medal to Marcos Robert Silveira Reis, our own São Marcos, for Merit in Sports. The decree was signed by President [...]

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