Football

On Thursday, qualifying for the European Championship in 2024 commenced, and it was a record-breaking night for both Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane. Ronaldo, the leading scorer in men's international soccer, made history by racking up his 197th international appearance for Portugal in their 4-0 win over Liechtenstein, surpassing any other male player's record. He marked the occasion by converting a penalty and adding another second-half goal, taking his international tally to 120 goals. Kane, on the other hand, became England's leading scorer of all time by netting a first-half penalty in a 2-1 win at Italy, taking his tally…

For us younger folks, Brazil soccer is great because that’s how it’s meant to be…we take that as a natural order of things, having grown up with the Brazilian soccer team’s successes in the World Cups of the 1990s. But the myth of Brazilian soccer was born a lot earlier, in times when soccer started to become a worldwide “plague” and there are a lot of people who attribute this internalization of soccer to the Brazilian team of the 50s, a team that was lead to success by one of the most preeminent figures in sports, the famous soccer player…