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The Brazilian Football School, EBF, of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), offers an exchange programme for foreign apprentices and professional players. Since the school was created, one year ago, they received 270 people from Australia, Japan and the United States. The EBF also wishes to train Arab players.

The Brazilian football player is one of the main stars of the campaign launched by the Aspire group, a sports enterprise inaugurated in Qatar at the end of last year. The site is going to house local and international competitions and is also going to serve as a training centre for talented youths in the region.

The company, which uses the name of the largest football player in the world, is talking to investors in the Arab country and in Germany. There is a possibility that a gym, which will work as a franchise, will be open in one of the Arab countries up to the end of this year. Pelé Club already has two units in Brazil.

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian football team will be departing tomorrow (09) on their way to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where they will play a friendly game against the country team on Saturday (12). The players leaving from Brazil are Cicinho, Gustavo Nery and Ricardinho, together with

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The news site of the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF), CBF News, announced yesterday (27) the list of 22 players that coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has selected for the friendly matches the Brazilian Team is going to play against the United Arab Emirates Team, on November 12, and against the

The A1 Grand Prix, category created by the sheikh Maktoum Hasher Al-Maktoum, will have amongst the directors the football players Ronaldo Nazário and Luis Figo, from Real Madrid, and the Formula 1 champions Emerson Fittipaldi, Alan Jones and John Surtees. The teams may only be sponsored by companies or brands from their countries of origin.

The high points of A1 Grand Prix will be the great value given to the drivers, as all the cars will be identical, and the dispute between countries, as each one of the 25 teams will represent a country. The Brazilian team has as its main investor football player Ronaldo, from Real Madrid, and twice Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who will be the technical director.