Brazil calling: Brasileirao, the best league in the world, is on fire
Friday, 12 September 08, 12:15 AM · Comments(3)
Season is getting started in most of the National Leagues but in Brazil we are already in a very important moment. As I told befor here at OleOle, Brasileirao is the most difficult national league to win in the world.
Pick any of the top leagues in the world and you know the winner will be one of four teams max. In Spain, everybody knows the winner will be Barcelona or Real Madrid. They should have a playoff NBA like between them. Seven games.
Premier League is a little bit better as we used to have four, but everybody knows Arsenal can’t make it never so there are three possible winners, like in Italy. I am not even mentioning France, where only one team can win.
In Brazil, we never know. Twelve clubs start the season as favorites. All of them have their own crowd, stadium and history.
Of course our best players are in Europe.
Certainly our managers suck.
Definitely our fans are not really well treated.
But nowhere else in the world a championship is so difficult to win.
I am not talking surprising results. I am talking about major and favorite teams.
It is not by accident that in 38 years in the so called Brasileirão, 17 teams were already Champions.
The greatest winners, Flamengo and São Paulo, have only 5 titles, the same number Real Madrid can have in a single decade in the Spanish League.
Brasileirão is always unpredictable. No Boca/River domination!
Anyway, it is starting to become predictable now. Fourteen rounds to be played, Grêmio is 6 points ahead Palmeiras and Cruzeiro, tied in second place. Grêmio is 10 points ahead the 6th place, São Paulo.
Game of the week
Tied with 43 points at the second position in the table, this is a key game for the Championship. They are both 5 points down the leader, Gremio. One loss can make one team eight points back in the table.
To watch
Here is another game ‘of six points’. I think the winner is definitely going to next year Copa Libertadores (top four teams qualify). São Paulo is the defending back-to-back champion. Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo will probably be full as Sao Paulo needs to win to reach Libertadores level, as the fans are very mad if the team, three times Libertadores and Fifa Club World Cup Champions, don’t make the continental competition.
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Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Boca Juniors (Argentina) are the biggest clubs of the South America and two of the biggest clubs of the world. You can compare them only with Real Madrid, Milan, Manchester United, Liverpool and Barcelona.
The biggest clubs of each country (taking into account recent inquiries that gave points to the clubs according to five principal factors for call the greatness of a club: titles, financial receipts, inheritance, infrastructure and fan base in his country (without counting the 'sympathizers' around the world)):
England: 1 - Manchester United and Liverpool , 2 - Arsenal and 3 - Chelsea.
Italy: 1 - Milan, 2 - Juventus and 3 - Internazionale.
Spain: 1 - Real Madrid, 2 - Barcelona and 3 - Atletico.
Brazil: 1 - Sao Paulo, 2 - Flamengo and 3 - Corinthians.
Argentina: 1 - Boca Juniors, 2 - River Plate and 3 - Independiente.
Uruguay: 1 - Penarol, 2 - Nacional and 3 - Defensor.
France: 1 - Olympique, 2 - Lyon and 3 - PSG.
Portugal: 1 - Porto, 2 - Benfica and 3 - Sporting.
Netherlands: 1 - Ajax, 2 - Feyenoord and 3 - PSV.
Germany: 1 - Bayern, 2 - Borussia and 3 - Hamburgo.
Mexico: 1 - America, 2 - Chivas Guadalajara and 3 - Cruz Azul.
Chile: 1 - Colo-Colo, 2 - Universidad Chile and 3 - Universidad Catolica.
World: 1 - Real Madrid, 2 - Milan, 3 - Sao Paulo, 4 - Boca Juniors, 5 - Liverpool and Manchester United, 7 - Barcelona, 8 - Juventus, 9 - Bayern and 10 - Internazionale.
Alex Schneider
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Quebra tudo Brasil! O fut é nosso!
=)
And the most interesting thing is. If you try to convince an English football fan or a Spanish football fan they will never agree that the Brazilian League is so hard. What they don't understand is that while they need tons of cash to put together a team with 80%, 90% of foreigners, in Brazil we have the teams with pretty much 100% of Brazilians and with a lot of technical quality. The competition for a spot in a team in Brazil is tough. As a result the Brazilian League is definitely the most difficult to win.