All news by author: Tim Vickery

IT was in 1993 that a teenage striker called Ronaldo started to make a name for himself in the blue shirt of Cruzeiro.On Saturday, three decades later

“THEY think it’s all over…. it is now!” is a folk memory from the 1966 World Cup - as long as you are English.Other nationalities heard differ

TRENT Alexander-Arnold can be forgiven if he suffers an attack of pre-match nerves before the Champions League clash at home to Real Madrid. It’s th

A LITTLE more than 23 years have passed since Manchester United flew to Brazil to take part in FIFA’s first attempt to organise a Club World Cup.As

ENZO Fernandez is the most high profile - and by far the most expensive - of the new Premier League input of South American central midfielders.It is

IF THERE is a possible threat to the supremacy of the European club game, then it surely comes from the Americas.The club game in South America has at

AT THE heart of Brighton’s destruction of Liverpool last Saturday was Ecuadorian midfielder Moises Caicedo.The zone of the field where Jurgen

TEN days after the death of Pele, Brazilian football lost another of its idols - one of the biggest in the immediate post-Pele era - when Roberto Dina

PELE'S wake took place with his coffin placed in the centre circle of the pitch at Santos, the club he represented from 1956 through to 1974.He lay in