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Lucas Paquetá
Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima (born 27 August 1997), better known as Lucas Paquetá (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays either as an attacking midfielder or winger for club West Ham United and the Brazil national team. Paquetá began his career in 2007 with Flamengo, where he won the 2016 Copa São Paulo de Júniores title. After being promoted to the senior team in 2016, he moved to Europe in 2019 to join Italian giants AC Milan, where he played for two seasons. He then joined French club Lyon, and in 2022 signed for English side West Ham United, winning the UEFA Europa Conference League in his debut season. Paquetá represented Brazil at the Copa América in 2019, 2021 and 2024, winning the 2019 tournament, and was also a part of their squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Club career Early career Lucas Paquetá arrived at Flamengo in 2007 at the age of 10. By 15, he was very technically skilled but did not have the physicality of other players his age (he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football In Brazil
Association football, Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country's national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958 FIFA World Cup, 1958, 1962 FIFA World Cup, 1962, 1970 FIFA World Cup, 1970, 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002. Brazil and Germany national football team, Germany are the only teams to succeed in qualifying for all the World Cups for which they entered the qualifiers; Brazil is the only team to participate in every World Cup competition ever held. Brazil has also won an Olympic gold medal, at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Brazil hosted the 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cup. It also hosted the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship, 2000 FIFA Club World Cup. Pelé won three World Cups (he was injured during most of the 1962 World Cup). Some of the most promine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan (footballer, Born 1979)
Juan Silveira dos Santos (; born 1 February 1979), commonly known as Juan, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He currently works as Brasil national football team assistant under Carlo Ancelotti. Having begun his career with Flamengo, he spent a decade playing in Europe in service of Bayer Leverkusen and Roma before returning to Brazil with Internacional in 2012. Juan earned 79 caps and scored seven international goals for Brazil. He represented the nation at two FIFA World Cups, three FIFA Confederations Cups and three Copa América tournaments, winning two apiece of the latter two events. Club career Early career Born in Rio de Janeiro, Juan played for six years for Flamengo in Brazil. In 2002, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen. He played five years in Germany scoring ten goals for Bayer. In 2007, he moved to Roma for €6.3 million. Roma Juan played for Roma between 2007 and 2012. In all competitions for Roma he scored 11 goals in more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atlético Independiente
() is an Argentine professional sports club, which has its headquarters and stadium in Avellaneda, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its Association football, football team, which plays in the Argentine Primera División, Primera División and is considered one of Big Five (Argentine football), Argentina's ''Big Five'' football clubs. Independiente was officially founded on 1 January 1904 as Independiente Foot-Ball Club, although the institution had been formed on 4 August 1904. Originally from Monserrat, Buenos Aires, Monserrat, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires city, the club moved to Crucecita in 1907 and then to Avellaneda in 1928. The association football, football team achieved promotion to the Argentine Primera División for the first time in 1912 Argentine Primera División, 1911, and has participated there ever since, except for the 2013–14 Primera B Nacional, 2013–14 season, when they were relegated. Inaugurated in 2009, the Estadio Libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Copa Sudamericana
The 2017 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana was the 16th edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana'', or ), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. Argentinian club Independiente defeated Brazilian club Flamengo in the finals by an aggregate score of 3–2 to win their second tournament title. As champions, Independiente earned the right to play against the winners of the 2017 Copa Libertadores in the 2018 Recopa Sudamericana, and the winners of the 2017 J.League Cup in the 2018 Suruga Bank Championship. They also automatically qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores group stage. Chapecoense were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Flamengo in the round of 16. They qualified for the tournament after finishing third in their 2017 Copa Libertadores group. Format changes Starting from this season, the following format changes were implemented: *The tournament was expanded from 47 to 54 teams. *A tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium (, ; named after the Maracanã River), officially known as Jornalista Mário Filho Stadium (, ; , named after Mário Filho), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Located in the Maracanã neighborhood, it is owned by the Rio de Janeiro state government and managed by the clubs Fluminense and Flamengo. It is part of a complex that includes an arena known by the name of Maracanãzinho. The stadium was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, in which Brazil was beaten 2–1 by Uruguay in the deciding game, in front of a still standing record attendance of 173,850 spectators, on 16 July 1950. The venue has seen attendances of 150,000 or more at 26 occasions and has seen crowds of more than 100,000 as many as 284 times. But as terraced sections have been replaced with seats over time, and after the renovation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, its original capacity has been reduced to the current 73,139, but it remains the largest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube () is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Cruzeiro is the greatest team of Minas Gerais. Although competing in a number of different sports, Cruzeiro is mostly known for its association football team. It plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the state of Minas Gerais's premier state league. The club was founded on 2 January 1921, by sportsmen from the Italian colony of Belo Horizonte as '' Società Sportiva Palestra Itália''. As a result of the Second World War, the Brazilian federal government banned the use of any symbols referring to the Axis powers in 1942. On October 7, 1942, club board members rebaptized the club with the name of a leading national symbol: the Cruzeiro do Sul's constellation. Cruzeiro play their home games at the Mineirão stadium, which currently holds up to 62,547 spectators. Cruzeiro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Copa Do Brasil
The 2017 Copa do Brasil (officially the Copa Continental Pneus do Brasil 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was the 29th edition of the Copa do Brasil football competition. It was held between February 8 and September 27, 2017. The competition was contested by 91 teams, which qualified either by participating in their respective state championships (70), by the 2017 CBF ranking (10), by the 2016 Copa do Nordeste (1), by the 2016 Copa Verde (1), by the 2016 Série B (1) or qualified for the 2017 Copa Libertadores (8). Copa Verde, Copa do Nordeste and Série B champions, and the 8 Copa Libertadores clubs entered the competition in the round of 16. Cruzeiro defeated Flamengo on penalties in the finals to win their fifth title. They also earned the right to play in the 2018 Copa Libertadores Group stage and the 2018 Copa do Brasil Round of 16. Diego (Flamengo) and Gatito Fernández (Botafogo) won best player and best goalkeeper awards, respectively. Grêmio were the defending cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta Redonda
Volta Redonda () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km2, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) and with a population of 273,988 inhabitants (estimated in 2020). The area around the city has nearly 700,000 km2. Its name (which is Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''Round Turn'') is due to the round shape of a curve in the Paraíba do Sul river around which the city was built. Situated in Volta Redonda is Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), Brazil's second largest steel producer. Today its economy, despite still being based on Industrial sector, industry, is quite diverse, and largely focused on the areas of services and trade. Due to this, Volta Redonda is worldly known as ''Cidade do Aço'' (which is Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''Steel City''). The city borders with the municipalities of Barra Mansa (north, northwest, west and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Raulino De Oliveira
Estádio Municipal General Sylvio Raulino de Oliveira, also known as Raulino de Oliveira, and as Estádio da Cidadania, , is a football stadium. It was inaugurated on 14 March 1976 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro State, and has a maximum capacity of 20,255. The stadium is owned by the City Hall of Volta Redonda, and is the home ground of Volta Redonda Futebol Clube. Its formal name honors Raulino de Oliveira, former president of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, located in Volta Redonda. History The stadium was built in 1976. It was inaugurated on 14 March of that year. The stadium bleachers Bleachers (North American English), or stands, are raised, tiered rows of benches found at sports-fields and at other spectator events. Stairways provide access to the horizontal rows of seats, often with every other step enabling access to a ... were originally a metallic structure, but in August 2001, the stadium reformation started, and the metallic structure was replaced by a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madureira Esporte Clube
Madureira Esporte Clube, usually abbreviated to Madureira, is a List of football clubs in Brazil, Brazilian football team based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the neighbourhood of Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Madureira. The team compete in Campeonato Carioca, the top tier of the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro State football leagues in Brazil, state football league. History Madureira was founded on August 8, 1914 as Fidalgo Madureira Atlético Clube. The businessmen Elísio Alves Ferreira, Manoel Lopes da Silva, Manuel Augusto Maia and Joaquim Braia, among others, in 1932, wanted to found a strong club in Madureira (Rio de Janeiro), Madureira neighborhood. They contacted Uassir do Amaral, president of Fidalgo Madureira Atlético Clube at that time. In the same year, they tried to fuse Fidalgo and Magno Futebol Clube, but the partners of Fidalgo did not approve this. After several assemblies, on February 16, 1933, the team was named Madureira Atlético Clube, and the founda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Campeonato Carioca
The 2016 Campeonato Carioca de Futebol was the 113th edition of the top tier football of FFERJ (Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, or Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation). The top four teams competed in 2017 Copa do Brasil. On 4 August 2015, the arbitral tribunal decided to dispute this edition, which would differ from previous editions. Also, 2016 Summer Olympics preparations of the Maracanã Stadium and Estádio Olímpico João Havelange made them unavailable except for the finals. Matches were moved to large stadiums in other cities. Participating teams League tables The sixteen sides were split into two groups of eight, with the top four from both groups advancing to the promotion stage (Taça Guanabara) and the bottom four from both groups advancing to the relegation stage (Taça Rio). Group A Group B Taça Guanabara Taça Rio Taça Rio - Final Stage Semi-finals Final Final Stage Semi-finals Finals Awards Team of the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
