According to AS Diario, the Brazilian Football Federation confirmed that Brazil & Spain will play a friendly by the end of the year. The date & venue have yet to be determined.
ETA: The match will be at a neutral location.
A banana was thrown onto the field during Brazil’s 2-0 victory over the Scots, while Neymar accused some spectators of racist behaviour - a claim repeated by team-mate Lucas Leiva, who retrieved the banana.
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Tartan Army spokesman Hamish Husband strongly denied the catcalls were racially motivated.
He said: “The reason Neymar was booed was because we believed he was feigning injury.
“Racism has no place in the Tartan Army and if it did, it would be stamped out immediately because we are self-policing.”
Mesut & Sami are set to return early after being released from international duty. Marcelo is already back in Madrid after the injury he sustained in practice last Friday.
“I can’t take it any more. I wanted to carry on but I can’t. I plan a move in a game but I cannot execute it as I wish. The time is up.”
Ronaldo announces his retirement.
The pain made me anticipate the end of my career,” the tearful Ronaldo said, with his sons Alex and Ronald by his side.
He also said that he found out four years ago that he had hypothyroidism, a condition that made it difficult for him to lose weight and stay in shape.
“It’s very hard to leave something that made me so happy,” Ronaldo said with tearstained cheeks. “Mentally I wanted to continue, but I have to acknowledge that I lost (the fight) to my body.”
(via The Dirty Tackle)
Fifteen Madridistas have been tabbed by their national teams for duty in friendlies scheduled for 9 February. Casillas, Arbeloa, Albiol, Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso will join Spain, Argentina has called up Garay, Gago and Di María, Benzema and Lass by France, Carvalho and Cristiano Ronaldo by Portugal, Marcelo by Brazil and Özil and Khedira by Germany.
For the 3rd consecutive year, Spain tops the ranking as Team of the Year. The Netherlands (2nd place) have earned the Best Mover of the Year title. Germany took the 3rd place spot from Brazil.
And hey, the US moved up to #18!
