Abu Dhabi-based team Al Jazira hired Ricardo Oliveira for 14 million euros, in the country’s most expensive football transaction ever. He will team up with Rafael Sobis, the second most expensive.
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The men’s team is going to play the World Championship in the category from July 20 to 31 in the country. Also playing will be the Arab teams of Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Kuwait and Libya.
Brazil will promote a match for peace in the Arab country, similar to the one held in Haiti in 2004. The initiative is part of a strategy for promoting the Brazilian image abroad through sports.
The Arab country is starting to establish a sports community and wants to become reference in Olympic education. For this, the director of the Doha Olympic Museum, Christian Wacker, is in Brazil.
Representatives of the country’s Olympic Museum will attend the International Forum on Development of Olympic Sports, to start tomorrow and end on Wednesday in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte.
The Brazilian women’s rugby team competed last weekend in the United Arab Emirates and finished in tenth. It was the first-ever Latin American participation in the championship.
Both Arab countries were classified to the cup after reaching the finals of the African cup. The games begin on September 30th, but Egypt should also play two friendly games with the Brazilian team.
They will come from five countries in the Gulf and Africa to participate in the IAAF/Caixa World Half Marathon Championship, to take place in Rio de Janeiro, in October.
Brazilian businessman Alain Levy crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco last month. The effort was part of a personal challenge for Levy, who swims as a hobby.
Twelve Brazilian teachers were selected to teach the martial art in public schools in Abu Dhabi. The emirate plans to make jiu-jitsu into the national sport.
Players of the Under-20 category in the Saudi team spent one month in Rio de Janeiro to practice and play against Brazilian teams. All the players have one dream: playing professionally in Brazil.
The IOC decided to allow the country to participate in the Olympics after excluding it last week. The organisation and the Iraqi government came to an agreement on an independent national committee.
The Al-Jazira club made a bid for midfielder Guiñazu, who plays for Internacional. He is Argentine, but has played for the Brazilian team since last year. The Arabs offered US$ 4.5 million for him.
The Iraqi Ali Khaled Abu Taha, aged 18, is the new member of Brazsat Football Club, from Brasília, the Brazilian capital. After spending the last four years in a refugee camp in Jordan, Taha sees in Brazil a unique opportunity to fulfil his dream: becoming a famous football player.
