This Thursday FIFA announced the calendar for the Confederation’s Cup 2013 and the World Cup 2014. The city of São Paulo was confirmed as the host for the 2014 opening ceremony and game. Congratulations to all us taxpayers – the marginal improvements in São Paulo’s infrastructure will serve as justification for the “investment” of at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘martinuccio’
Sonar pings #25
Posted in Brazilian Championship, tagged confederations cup, fifa, kleber, marcos, martinuccio, scolari, teves, world cup on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sonar pings #22
Posted in History, Players, tagged carmona, kleber, martinuccio, scolari on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Headlines from the week that was: Palmeiras on Wednesday signed creative midfielder Pedro Carmona, coming from Criciúma but belonging to São José. Carmona was made available already against Avaí, but will most likely make his debut this Thursday against Ceará. The left-footed 23-year-old apparently has some talent in the free kick department; perhaps Assunção will have [...]
On a roll
Posted in Administration, Players, tagged cicinho, fluminense, frizzo, gerley, martinuccio, tirone on July 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Silently and surprisingly efficiently, the previously so criticised gentlemen Tirone and Frizzo have been working away. The imbroglio with Martinuccio and Fluminense is apparently far from a solution, but Tirone has given clear indications that this is a fight he’s going to pick. Sooner or later, in one way or the other, Fluminense and/or Martinuccio [...]
Sonar pings #19
Posted in Administration, Players, tagged frizzo, gerley, henrique, kleber, martinuccio, new arena, tirone on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Klebergate Kleber didn’t show up for practice on Thursday morning. “My bad, I didn’t know it was on” was his excuse, promising to train double shifts the following day. Seen in a VIP area of a music club in São Paulo until the wee hours the previous night, Kleber was severely criticised in the social [...]
Finally some good news
Posted in Administration, Players, tagged martinuccio on July 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Don’t pop it yet, but you might want to leave it to chill. Rumour on the street is that the Argentinean offensive midfielder/attacker Alejandre Martinuccio, at Uruguayan Peñarol until the end of this month, indeed has signed a pre-contract with Palmeiras. Apparently, the contract is quite detailed; the player has signed for a period of [...]
Sonar pings #16 – week in review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged marcos, martinuccio, scolari, tirone on June 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With a busy week coming to an end, here goes a brief summary of the most important events. Scolari shuts up, but not for long Extremely annoyed by the way that seemingly everything that happens inside and outside of Palmeiras finds its way to the press, Luiz Felipe Scolari announced that he would shut up [...]

