while brazil's national team keeps a dumb person, a.k.a dunga, as its coach i think better to ignore it for a while to talk about the only brazlian team that can make me proud, always: grêmio. not mentioning that as a leader of the current Brazilian championship, it's best time to start an international campaign and get so supporters abroad. or at least, spread the gremismo around the world.

if you dont know much about this team what about relating the names ronaldinho gaúcho, anderson [ okay, this one i would skip lol], lucas and luis felipe scolari to the club? what do hey have in common? all of them were part of grêmios glorious days. and nowdays they are spreading good football around the world. even i pretty much agree ronaldinho is not is his best shape, literally. Big Phil is the most popular name among all Gremistas- Grêmio's supporters- especially because he brought us pretty much important cups and it was at its Tricolor team that he started to be recognized as a national/international sucessful coach.he's also a Grêmio supporter since he was a kid, what makes us really proud, of course.

now a bit of grêmio's history here:

Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense were born from a football, which is the way it should be when a club are destined for the greatest glories. The road to victory started with Cândido Dias da Silva, who came from São Paulo to work in Porto Alegre – and his ball. 

The English and Germans playing for Rio Grande teams had been invited for a showdown in Porto Alegre. On the appointed day, September 7th 1903, the Várzea pitch was full of onlookers. Cândido, with his ball under his arm, was among them, concentrating greatly on the game.

The Englishmen's ball developed a puncture, to general dismay, and Cândido quickly loaned his own ball to ensure the showdown reached its end. In exchange, the players gave him his first football lessons at the end of the match and told him how to found a club.

Then, on September 15th  1903, 32 young men gathered at Salão Grau, a hotel restaurant at 15 de Novembro street, in the city centre, to begin the history of a winning club, always willing to overcome all challenges.

 Grêmio's colours are blue, black and white. The club's mascot has been a Musketeer since 1946. Their first pitch, the Baixada do Moinhos de Vento, opened in 1904 in an upper class area of Porto Alegre. They played there until 1954, when the Olímpico opened – at that time, the country's largest privately owned stadium. In 1980, after closure of the upper circle, the stadium was named Olímpico Monumental.

if you want to know more about grêmio, visit this blog weekly.

photos and history text: grêmio.net


 

the original idea of this blog is to talk about premier league starting from the moment i was going to england ithis september. unfortunately i dont have motd or even espn to check all result when i want but i am making some affort here !

and as i had to postpone my journey to maybe january 2009 but as well as big phil i would like to practice my english lol so i am here to spread my words, anyway.  :O) firstly i have to explain something about my english favourite team: aston villa.

since i was a kid i had the health habit of picking clubs around the world to support.  aston villa was the first name that came to my mind and i am very faithful in my football thoughts. in 2006 i had the opportunity to check a villas match at villa park. and i can tell watching any game of premiership once in life already is a very special moment for a brazilian that always was a big fan of football. it is absolutely fantastic and very different of any brazilian match i've  ever been to. but i am going to talk more about aston villa in the next post.this wasn't a good weekend to villa fans, anyway :O(

this season i have a special reason to give a special attention to the competition. yes, big phil. he is my favourite coach. he is part of my brazilian team, gremio, glories and i can understand chealsea fans can wait him doing his best because i can't be a kind of coach that brings you plenty of gols for match but he brings cups. loads of.

and i already started to check his performance as chelsea coach. fortunately i can check the interviews at motd website and it is amazingly how he is expressing himself well in english. i know he is a studious of football so everything he does it has to be done well. not different in england. it sounds that deco the portuguese-brazilian one is doing pretty well in this season too andsicne last world cup between england-portugal match i was making some predictions that someday i could see big phil working with joe cole. crazy thinking , i know!!!

would spell is again, please?

three points later against wigan and i have to say i also just loved the way big phil said the name of the team he is coaching ! the pronunciation of chealsea at motd interview was so full of brazilian accent and i hope british people or at least chelsea fans get used to this because it is just impossible to have big phil coaching a team without have some brazilian fingerprint on it. he tries to speak in english a very good one and he is a gentlemen. so c'mon let him call his team the way he likes :O)