South American Leagues

Atletico Paranaense destroyed Vasco Da Gama today sending them to the 2nd division. Obviously Vasco fans didn't take it too well and a fight ensued:


Fluminense, last year's champions were relegated too, Fred who is out injured was crying in the stands:

What the fuck has happened in Brazil yesterday?


How, why this shit started? 2 people dead, dozens in hospital in critical situation? Those fuckers need to get banned from attending football game ever again.

How is it possible those teams can relegate?

the real question is, will we b id for fred in the january transfer period?

I'd take him. He's not spectacular, but he knows how to score goals and he is a true CF.

Apparently Manchester CIty signed Bruno Zuculini of Racing for 1.5 million euros.

If this rumour is in fact true, what a fucking bargain for one of the best DMs in South America, not to mention he's only 20 years old.

Nice work from Lanús, they deserved to win the Sudamericana. I'm very proud to say that I live in Lanús ^^ but not so close to the stadium. Now they will play the Suruga Bank against some japonese team. Anybody would say it is an easy match, but the japonese teams have won the last 4 editions of the Suruga Bank, so they will have to be careful

Here the goals

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Lucas Melano :notbad:

Scored 3 goals in the Copa Sudamericana, the same as noted Chilean prospect Nicolas Castillo

On another note, Racing have been extremely out of form this year. Quite surprising considering the amount of talent in their squad, as well as their strong league standing last year.

pencilpal said:

On another note, Racing have been extremely out of form this year. Quite surprising considering the amount of talent in their squad, as well as their strong league standing last year.

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One thing you should know about Racing, is that almost every year they start the league being THE candidate to win it, but they always fail to fight for the title :trollol: except in 2001, it's been happening since they return to primera in 1985

And (as I'm sure you're aware), who was in their league winning squad in 2001? Diego Milito.

Regardless, especially Vietto needs to step it up next season, and I really expected more from him (considering his exceptional performances last year)

There's so much talent brimming the Primera Division, but it's a shame the quality of the league has been in decline over the past few years.

Funny thing is Milito was the sub of some Maceratesi dude.

Lucas Mugni sold to Flamengo from Colon for only 1.1 million euros!

Incredibly classy player sold for peanuts.

Anyone seeing Lucas Evangelista? I've read some praise for him since he took Moura's place.

Y&h said:

Anyone seeing Lucas Evangelista? I've read some praise for him since he took Moura's place.

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I see what you did there.

Wanted to share this article. Remember this beast?



Former player for club América in Mexico and the Paraguayan national team, Salvador Cabanas helps his parents in the family bakery to survive, having lost everything from a gunshot at a nightclub in Mexico four years ago."I will keep going forward," he repeats to an AFP journalist during an interview, sitting under the shade of a grapefruit tree.

He controls the kneading of the flour in a shed that is behind the modest house where he was born, in Itaguá, 30 km from Asuncion.

He is separated from his wife, Mary Lorgia Alonso, who has care of their children James (13) and Mia Ivonne (9) in a luxurious mansion in Asuncion, valued at approximately $5,000,000.

He says his things were taken from him while he was recuperating, saying there was collusion between his representative and his lawyer.

The residence is in her name, he says.

"As time goes on I am realizing a lot of things," observes Cabañas alluding to alleged shady dealings of his former manager José González and his own ex-wife. "Even the lawyer went over to their team," he said.

Salvador gets up at four in the morning to distribute bread in a van to customers of his father, Dionisio, and his mother, Mrs. Basilia Cabañas."We distribute the bread around Itaguá, Ypacarai, San Bernardino (outside the capital). I like the work. People recognize me and ask me...about football of course. I tell them that I am happy."

Four years later

January 25 was the four year anniversary of that fateful moment in the career of skilled forward.

He was the star of América, the millionaire club of Mexico. He was the leading scorer at the Copa Libertadores for two consecutive years and was six months away from the 2010 South African World Cup. His national team, Paraguay, breezed through South American qualifying and reached the quarterfinals of the WC with Argentine Gerardo Martino as coach, now at FC Barcelona.

"When it happened (the gunshot wound) I had signed a pre-contract in the amount of $1,700,000 for a transfer to Europe. They told me that my destination would be Manchester United. América held on to me. They gave me an apartment in Acapulco and another in Cancun. My salary was doubled..." he says.

He said that he was living a dream when his life was turned upside down and he was hanging by a thread during his 23 days in intensive care in a hospital in Mexico City.

"My grandmother Basilia told me I was going to keep moving forward," he said.Like Segismundo, thinking about his life and his fortune in "Life is a Dream" by Calderon de La Barca, Cabañas can't explain the turn his life took, like that character of the Spanish writer who wonders if life is an illusion, a shadow, fiction or a dream.

"Well, here I am, trying to recover. I have great faith despite losing everything," he remarks seriously.

"Double victim"

His father, Dionisio, also a former professional football player as a forward like his son, speaks in the native language of Paraguay, Guarani: "My son was a victim twice."

"His professional life was taken away in the prime of his career and they took advantage of him, his own wife, his representative and his lawyer," says his father sadly.

Cabañas responds gesturing with his hands: "They made me sign with digital printing (finger)" while he didn't have all his faculties. He says that América had promised compensation but the money never came. "She (his wife) said that it's all gone (the money)." But he says he is willing to face a legal battle. Meanwhile, he works as a baker and a footballer.He is back on his home team, club 12 de Octubre in Itaguá, who returned to the first division this year. The club was two divisions down when Salvador reappeared two years ago as a balm to give new life to the club. His return to stadiums drew thousands of fans and onlookers who chanted his name incessantly.

Touching heaven

On his recent past he says he tries to forget about it and to look forward. His attacker, drug trafficker Jorge Balderas Garza, responds: "I don't know. I'm not interested."

The day of the tragedy Salvador says he touched heaven: "God blessed me to live again. I spoke with grandmother (now deceased). I told her that my family was not going to lack anything. With that in mind I built this bakery."

Asked what he remembers most of his playing in football stadiums he responds that he will never forget the Brazilians who nicknamed him "Gordinho" (chubby).

There was a special reason. América knocked Flamengo out of the Copa Libertadores in the mighty Maracana stadium itself with a Cabañas hat-trick."Later I played for the Paraguayan national team. We beat Brazil in Asuncion and I scored. Before the rematch in Brazil, the media published: 'Beware the Gordinho'. That was funny," he says.

Asked what he will do after hanging up his boots, he revealed that he has offers to be a television sports commentator. "I have local offer and one with a North American channel.

Asked whether any State authority or someone from the Paraguayan Football Association visits him, he says no. "They seem to want to know me only when they need me," he concludes wryly.

I saw that today too It was shocking to be honest... His life was completely destroyed ...

Not to be a dick about the Cabanas situation but if your a rich footballer why don't you buy your parents a house or give them enough money to not have to work. My parents are 62 and retired. My brother, 2 sisters and me give them 150 each a month and they get Social Security. We make decent money but not exactly like we are rich or anything. Cabanas made a lot of money in Mexico and if he was a bit more generous with his family this might not have happened to him.

It's crazy how far he has fallen. He was one of my favorite players and I still think if he had played in the WC. Paraguay would have won it not Spain. It's just insane that 4 years later dude is a delivery man !!!

His life destroyed? Lost everything?

Shit happened to him that should never have happened, it shouldn't be wished upon anyone except Justin Bieber. But this is vastly exaggerated, if you ask me. I cannot really pity him that much at all. Yeah I feel bad for him because he lost his career, but he thankfully is alive and breathing and he still has everything he needs now. He went from incredibly spoiled to normal, perfectly normal. Is that so bad? What wasn't normal is the amount of money he got earlier. Now he's doing work he likes anyway, spending time with family. Doing what the usual people do. Yes he had much more, but is his life destroyed only because he no longer makes millions a year? He is still famous, people still love him, he alone makes his club rise higher than ever (still playing his favorite sport) and he even has the opportunity to get a job as a sports commentator on tv and get instantly spoiled again. Not many people have that. And he should indeed have taken care of his family as soon as he could to avoid much of this shit in the first place. It's been his own selfish decision to keep all the money for himself. Nevertheless, he is still so far above the average that saying his life is destroyed or any worse than that of the average citizen is beyond retarded.

Jesus, even my own family is way poorer. I have to support them as well or they'd be on the streets, and with new law they will have to work until they are 70, since people over the world start retiring earlier and earlier (in Greece some even at 50) and we have to make up for that in financial support as long as we have a retarded government. This man is doing fine now, his kids live in a 5 million dollar mansion... He has the opportunity to never have to work again. He should be glad with what he got tbh, 90% of the world's population would swap any time... basically this article is an insult to any average household, since it states that a normal income and household are poor and mean nothing (since he claims he lost everything). All he lost is the ability to be great at his hobby, some money and perhaps not even those. He should stop pretending to be the poor fella and start fighting to get all his shit back if that's really what he wants so badly, because he still can. Shit happens, it happened to him and it's just how the world and it's fucked up humans work. It'll happen to anyone, be it in different forms.

/Spoiled football player goes back to 'normal' (read: still rich if he wants to) life. What a shock. This is nothing compared to people who REALLY lost everything. Give your pity to them instead.

crzdcolombian said:

He was one of my favorite players and I still think if he had played in the WC. Paraguay would have won it not Spain. It's just insane that 4 years later dude is a delivery man !!!

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He was indeed an extraordinary player. But dude, I thought you were joking when you first said that about Paraguay winning the WC times ago. You cannot be serious?

Paraguay lost 1-0 to Spain in the 1/4 final and they didn't have their best player. The best player getting shot in the Fing head shortly before the WC has to mess up moral on your team. Their goal scorer. Cabanas was one of those guys that was video game good. he was 1 or 2 shots = goal.

Ask any South American and Paraguay in 2009 before this happened to him was >>> Brazil >>> Argentina. I know euros don't think soccer exist out of those 2 countries or even follow qualifiers but Paraguay was sick !!! That's why I think people will have a rude awakening when they see Chile top their group at the WC.

O and the Articles says he is broke man. His wife left him and took everything after the lawyers F'd him as well. Dude isn't working as a delivery man and waking up at 5am because he is still a baller. I do agree he should have helped his family out and this wouldn't be an issue. He'd be just living in a smaller mansion with his mom and dad haha

Jesus, I didn't know he got shot in the head, I thought in his arm/leg or what not. That's serious shit. He's been very lucky I suppose.

Paraguay was indeed very good but I don't necessarily think it'd have turned out like that, really. Spain looked dull as always but I think they knew what they were doing. They had their sneaky way of assraping you as painfully as possible while you wouldn't have expected it for a second. But hey, we will never find out anyway, so what does it matter.