The president of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation has recently announced the proclamation, after the two-hour meeting they had, of the new Brazilian coach. Dunga is going to replace Carlos Alberto Parreira, who resigned after the failure the team was on the World Cup held in Germany.

Dunga is 43 years old and he is recognized by men such as Carlos Bilardo to be the symbol of the new Brazil the one that won the World Cup in United States 94, a title they hadn’t been able to win in the previous 24 years.

The soccer team of Milan asked, today, for the complete absolution of the team and the directors Adriano Galliani and Leonardo Meani, through a very intense intervention of the defendant lawyer of the team, Marco De Luca, in the frame of the scandal of corruption that the Italian soccer has been involved in.

After six months during which she was not able to play due to a chronic left knee injury, Serena Williams came back and defeated Anastasia Myskina 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open.

“I felt really relaxed. I haven't felt this way in a long time”, Williams said after the 56-minute match. “I almost could have played Wimbledon. I was about 60 or 70 percent then. But I probably would have had an embarrassing loss.”

Howard Schultz, head of the Basketball Club of Seattle and Chairman of Starbucks Corp., announced that the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics and the WNBA’s Seattle Storms would be sold to the Professional Basketball Club LLC for $350 million.

“This isn't how we wanted to go out,” Schultz explained after he announced his decision to sell the professional sports franchise. “I turned down higher offers from potential buyers that I felt would move the team immediately.”

Although the Spanish soccer team has disappointed its fans, the TV transmission of the matches has generated 60 hours of information, which is two and a half uninterrupted days.

Accesogroup has analyzed and valuated the media covering of the Spanish team in the news programs on national TV channels. Besides, the study adds a benchmarking of the media repercussion of the team lead by Luis Aragonés, against the teams from Brazil and Argentina.

Brazilian striker Ronaldo became the World Cup’s top scorer on Tuesday when he scored his 15Th goal in the tournament. The goal came during Brazil’s round-of-16 match against Ghana. The player broke Gerd Muller’s record, who had been the top scorer for 32 years.

Eight years and eleven days ago, O Fenômeno opened his account in a match against Morocco, which finished 3-0 in favor of the green and yellow team. "How do I make history? It's tough, difficult, it's not easy. You need a lot of sacrifice and a lot of work. This is the product of many, many years of effort."

As published today by NoticiasDot.com, “after the elimination of Brazil, an important number of online gamblers have centered their attention in France, which has increased its possibilities to win the World Cup.

Brazil had been the favorite team during the whole championship. During the match this team played on Saturday against France, the house of bets Betfair moved more than 25 million euros.

Defenders Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinand are in doubt for England’s next match against Ecuador. Neville suffered a calf injury while training on June 14 and Ferdinand experienced a groin problem during Tuesday’s match with Sweden.

An FA spokesperson informed that on Friday Neville spent 15 minutes in the massage/physio tent and did some running later. As for Ferdinand, he trained separately from the rest of the team during the whole session.

Since Germany beat England for 1 to 0 in 2000, they haven’t won any big selection team again. The last three times it faced Argentina, Germany lost one and the other two ended up as a tie.

The betting market faces the hardest challenge of all games played until now. In the English sites, the preference leans towards Argentina, although in the Spanish ones the Germans win.

According to physical trainer Moraci Sant’Anna, Ronaldo weights 90.5 kg, only 500 grams above the ideal weight for a 1.83m-tall man. “He was up to 95kgs but now he is close to his ideal weight”, the doctor told Globo News TV.

“When Ronaldo joined the team he was 5kg above the perfect weight for a player with his complexion and height”, explained Sant’Anna. In the 2002 World Cup, Ronaldo’s weight was 86 kg and in 1994 it was 75 kg.