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Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim

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Team Focus: Belo Horizonte Bandwagon Gathers Pace as Cruzeiro Stake Claim They may not like it on the bronze beaches of Rio, in São Paulo’s office blocks and in the proud alehouses of Porto Alegre, but Brazilian football has a new epicentre. Since the turn of the year, Belo Horizonte has become the place to be on planet futebol.First there was the reopening o...

Team Focus: Martin Jol Need Not Worry About Adding Another Striker

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Team Focus: Martin Jol Need Not Worry About Adding Another Striker Martin Jol was fairly accurate with his recent assertion that his Fulham squad is in need of another striker to lessen the goalscoring burden on Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian only just completed his transfer to Craven Cottage in time last summer - he joined on the final day of the transfer window ...

Team Focus: How Villarreal Are Ensuring They Remain In The Primera División

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Team Focus: How Villarreal Are Ensuring They Remain In The Primera División Villarreal have been away from Spain’s elite in Primera for just one year, but now they’re back they wish to make sure they don’t drop to Segunda División again. There are many ways to go about this, but the main one is stocking the squad up with clear quality. The moves mad...

Team Focus: Luis Suárez And Why Arsenal Are Ready To Spend Big On The Striker

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Team Focus: Luis Suárez And Why Arsenal Are Ready To Spend Big On The Striker Swath aside the on-field petulance, the allegations of racial abuse aimed towards Patrice Evra and the cannibalistic traits Branislav Ivanovic was on the receiving end of and you have Luis Suárez stripped down to his purest form - a stupendous footballer. However, there are some who believe h...

Team Focus: How Napoli Are Replacing Edinson Cavani

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Team Focus: How Napoli Are Replacing Edinson Cavani No club wants to lose its best player. And yet there were times during this summer when Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis gave the impression that he was enjoying the prospect of losing Edinson Cavani.Why? Because, whatever happened, he felt confident he’d be a winner. If Cavani stayed at...

Team Focus: Fiorentina And Their Abundance Of Attacking Talent

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Team Focus: Fiorentina And Their Abundance Of Attacking Talent On the final day of the 2012/13 Serie A season, Fiorentina travelled to Pescara knowing that a victory over the Delfini and AC Milan failing to overcome Siena would see the Viola secure a place in the Champions League next season. In the end, their 5-1 win over the bottom placed side needn’t h...

Team Focus: Where Would Gareth Bale Fit In Best At Manchester United?

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Team Focus: Where Would Gareth Bale Fit In Best At Manchester United? Gareth Bale: the name on everyone’s lips at the moment. Will he stay at Tottenham Hotspur? Will Real Madrid land their supposed top target this summer? Will Manchester United swoop for the Welshman between now and the close of the transfer window? Regardless of head coach Andre Villas-Boas con...

Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks

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Team Focus: São Paulo’s Sovereignty on the Rocks Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. The night is darkest before the dawn and all that. The problem for fans of São Paulo FC is that it's only ten past midnight and things are already unbearably bad.On Wednesday evening the Tricolor lost 2-0 to Corinthians in the second ...

Team Focus: The MLS All-Star Team

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Team Focus: The MLS All-Star Team The premise of an All-Star game has traditionally been rebuffed by the European game. From a competitive standpoint it’s difficult to argue its worth. Gathering a group of players who have never trained together in the middle of the regular season for a friendly match against an illustrious Eu...

Team Focus: New Look Roma Seem Set for Success

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Team Focus: New Look Roma Seem Set for Success It's been another summer of change thus far for Roma, with former Lille boss Rudi Garcia taking the reigns to become the club's fifth manager (including caretakers) since Claudio Ranieri left the club in 2011.The Frenchman has been busy in the transfer market already, and may not be done yet with Ro...