What better location to test out a solar powered football pitch than Brazil? Well, there are but Brazil’s first player-powered football pitch was inaugurated on Wednesday in a Rio de Janeiro’s slum, which basically exploits the kinetic energy of players’ movements to provide lighting at night. The project,…
In the case of any high profile footballer, after his playing days are over, we as fans look anxiously towards him for any signs of his escapism. But not all stories of filmic relaxation are the same. As Brazil gets ready to host one of the most prestigious…
A week ago, one of the greatest players to grace the pitch, Leo Messi, had surpassed Brazilian Legend – Pelé, with the most goals scored in one year. Messi earned his 75th and 76th against Mallorca a week ago, his 77th and 78th during the La Liga match…
The perennial argument of our times. Just who is the best player that ever played football? Pele? Maradona? Messi? Cristiano Ronaldo? The emergence of Messi has certainly stoked the argument about and between Pele and Maradona too. The criterion to decide the best player seems to vary from…
As young kids playing football, surely each one of us, have imagined and at times have even referred ourselves to these cool sounding Brazilian monikers like Pele, Garrincha, Felipao, Kaka, Ronaldo, Robinho, etc. But little do we know about the background of how the name came up or…