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via ussoccer.com The U.S. Women’s National Team will travel to Japan for early April matches against the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup champions and Brazil, taking on the hosts at Yurtec Stadium in Sendai on April 1 before traveling south to face the Brazilians on April 3 in Fukuda Denshi Arena in Chiba. In the newly created three-nation ...

via USSoccer CHICAGO (Feb. 9, 2012) – The U.S. Men’s National Team continues its competition against the world’s top teams when they host five-time World Cup champions Brazil on Wednesday, May 30 in Landover, Md. Kickoff for the USA’s first ever match at FedExField is set for 8 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2, ESPN3 ...

image source via the guardian: The Brazilian club Corinthians are keeping their striker Adriano "detained" inside the team's hotel, all while training three times a day, in an effort to force him to lose weight. The Corinthians fitness trainer Fabio Mahseredjian was quoted as saying, "In the hotel we have more control over him … He knows ...

Nike Football’s new Brasil uniform for 2012-2013 celebrates Jeitinho Brasileiro (“The Brasilian Way”) -- the spirit that encompasses the resilience, creativity and relentlessly positive and innovative approach that has helped make the Brasil National Team the most successful in the history of football. The Brasilian home jersey, affectionately ...

from FIFA.com: A dozen stadiums throughout the country will play their part in hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™. From the Arena Amazonia in Manaus in the far northwest of the country to the Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre in the south, all 12 will have a share in hosting the 64 matches that will make up the 20th edition of football's ...

image source In 2003, alcohol was banned at Brazilian football matches as part of attempts to tackle violence between rival football fans - Brewer Budweiser is a big Fifa sponsor - and the country's health minister, Alexandre Padilha, has urged Congress to maintain the ban in the new law. This is a problem. Fifa General Secretary Jerome Valcke is ...

image 1 : 2 Brazil to play U.S. in Foxborough or D.C. On Thursday the Brazilian federation announced a series of matches, including friendlies against Mexico in the Dallas area and Argentina at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and a game against the U.S., played May 30 or 31, in Boston (Foxborough) or Washington, DC. Various insiders, aka the ...

image 1 : 2 from FIFA.org "South American giants Argentina and Brazil will face off in an international friendly in New Jersey, United States, on 9 June, the Argentine Football Federation announced today. The high profile fixture is being staged in the 80,000-seater MetLife Stadium, more commonly used for games between American football sides ...