21 years ago at UEFA EURO 2000™, the Italian football star Francesco Totti kicked the legendary “Spoon” shot against the Netherlands. Now it’s time for him to apologize to his Dutch rivals in Amsterdam – with a lot of surprises and some Heinekens to celebrate that we’re finally together, to be rivals again.
Rio Olympics may be the last Olympics involving pure humans. We are entering a transhuman phase, where competitions among pure humans with limited capabilities will fall out of favor. In next few months we will see first such competition among transhumans. This is the future of sports! Lesser number of people watched the Olympics this…
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The Role of Southern of Brazil Amsterdam, 8 april 2021– Interview with Sander Van Stiphout, Director International in charge of transversal activities including innovation at Johan Cruijff ArenA. 1. Innovation means a lot of things to a lot of different people. What does innovation mean to you? Innovation for us means reaching business objectives. We are trying…
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Players from Brazil in demand Amsterdam, April 6th 2021– The Dutch football club of PSV in Eindhoven in the south of Holland, has a very rich history with Brazilian footballers. Romário and Ronaldo – who were among the best players of their generation – are probably the best known. Gomes and Alex were also extremely…
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Published just eight months after the end of the 2018/19 season, the Money League is the most contemporary and reliable independent analysis of the clubs’ relative financial performance. The key findings of this edition are: FC Barcelona reach the top of the Money League for the first time ever and at the same time become…
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Brazil is known for its love for futebol, or soccer as some call it, but the game did not originate in this South American country. There are other sports, however, that were created here that are not as well known abroad or even to Brazilians themselves. Here are seven sports that are native to Brazil, some…
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Visit any part of Brazil and the first thing that is clear is Brazilians’ passion for sports. Whether it is watching games, cheering their country on or playing themselves, Brazilians find some way to be connected to sports. It’s deeply embedded in the culture, especially in coastal cities such as Rio de Janeiro where sports are part of…
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KAZAN, Russia — It is a fine line between respect and deference, and in the days before they came face to face with Brazil, Belgium’s players and staff did all they could to navigate it. A World Cup quarterfinal against Brazil was a challenge, defender Vincent Kompany said, but he and his teammates would not…
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