Brazil coach Dunga has been sacked after their shock World Cup quarterfinal exit to the Netherlands.
Brazil turned on the style to defeat their South American rivals Chile 3-0 on Monday and set up a World Cup quarterfinal against the Netherlands.
Brazilian World Cup winner Bebeto believes his country's current crop of stars are capable of earning a record-extending sixth title in South Africa.
In the 1974 World Cup Brazil took such a beating from Holland that four years later it was obsessed with imitating the "total football" of the Dutch, with their constant positional changes and intense pressure on the ball. It didn't work. As one Brazilian journalist commented, "in a team game like soccer you need to have the right cultural base to introduce modifications."
Brazilian World Cup hero Ronaldo says he is to retire from football at the end of next year.
PLAYER OF THE DECADE: Zinedine Zidane, France Zizou gets our Player of the Decade nod, barely beating out Ronaldinho, who also won two World Player of the Year awards this decade but didn't have anything approaching Zidane's longevity at the top of the global game. No player since Diego Maradona has provided as much joy to viewers who love the artistry of soccer. Case in point: France's stunning upset of Brazil in the 2006 World Cup quarterfinals, in which Zidane rediscovered his mojo on the game's biggest stage. (Bonus points for scoring the greatest goal of the decade in the 2002 Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen.)
Bolivia used their home advantage to claim another big scalp in South American World Cup qualifying as they beat Brazil 2-1 in La Paz.
I'm never a big fan of sports being reduced to soap opera. There's much more going on than the emotional drama and the athlete's state of mind. We can talk about "focus" and "concentration'' all we want -- at times they're used like magic words that explain everything about the outcome.
South Africa is out of the Confederations Cup but the country is proud of its performance. CNN's Nkepile Mabuse reports.
Five-time world champions Brazil needed to come from two goals down to beat underdogs the United States 3-2 in the final of the Confederations Cup in South Africa on Sunday night.
Kaka converted a penalty in time added on to give holders Brazil a dramatic 4-3 win over Egypt who filed an official complaint after their Confederations Cup opener at Bloemfontein on Monday.
Shakhtar Donetsk are setting their sights on Champions League glory after beating Werder Bremen to become the final-ever winners of the UEFA Cup.
Maradona mania
updated: Thu Nov 20 2008 14:38:00
Diego Armando Maradona, one of the greatest footballers, makes his coaching debut. CNN's Pedro Pinto reports.
AC Milan star Ronaldinho has again been left out of Brazil's squad for a friendly match against Portugal.
CNN's Don Riddell talks to football writer James Montague about Manchester City's takeover by Middle Eastern investors.
We're nearly halfway through the marathon campaign of South American qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, and the past week of action has been one of the more wild and unpredictable so far. Here are five things we've learned after seeing all 10 countries in action:
Now that the adrenaline rush of the transfer window has passed, attention turns to international soccer and the road to South Africa 2010. South America's marathon World Cup qualification campaign is well underway -- this coming weekend marks the seventh of the 18 rounds played -- and there's plenty at stake in all five of the matches on the calendar.
Brazil opened their Olympic football campaign with an unconvincing 1-0 win over Belgium who ended Thursday's match in Shenyang with only nine men.
Diego Forlan scored a hat-trick as Uruguay thrashed 10-man Peru 6-0 on Tuesday night to leapfrog struggling Brazil in the South American World Cup qualifying group.
Robinho's 65th-minute strike was enough to settle a lackluster encounter at chilly Croke Park and send the Republic of Ireland back to the harsh reality of their increasingly frustrating managerial hunt.
World player of the year Kaka will miss Brazil's friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin on Wednesday after pulling out of the squad with a knee injury.
In the summer of 1988, Brazilian striker Müller left São Paulo to join Torino of Italy. Some 19 years later, in the middle of 2007, Corinthians attacking midfielder Willian embarked on his own European adventure, moving to Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk.
Luis Fabiano scored twice as Brazil came from behind to beat Uruguay 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.
Brazil has been awarded the 2014 World Cup finals, FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced Tuesday.
Afonso Alves may not be the best-known or biggest Brazilian star playing in Europe but that could all change if the Heerenveen forward continues in the goalscoring form that saw him find the net seven times for the Dutch side at the weekend.
Last week, for the first time ever, a press conference given by the coach of Brazil's men's team was dominated by the progress of the women.
Qualifying for the World Cup is no cakewalk, even for Brazil. Luiz Felipe Scolari's side struggled to make it to Japan and South Korea in 2002 -- indeed, without a couple of strokes being pulled, Brazil may well have missed out entirely on the competition it ended up winning.
CNN's Pedro Pinto talks one-on-one with with Milan's Brazillian star Kaka.
Kaka took advantage of a poor clearance from Mexican captain Rafael Marquez to lift 10-man Brazil to a 3-1 friendly victory on Wednesday night at a packed Gillette Stadium.
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