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Neymar the best Brazilian player, says Casemiro
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 6 (ANI): As Brazil and Peru get ready to lock horns in the Copa America final, Brazilian defensive midfielder Casemiro heaped praise on Neymar, calling him the team's best player.
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Argentina was a complicated rival, says Brazilian skipper Alves
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 4 (ANI): Brazilian skipper Dani Alves has admitted that his team made a huge effort to beat Argentina 2-0 and advance to the 2019 Copa America final as they were a very complicated rival.
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Willian ruled out of Copa America final due to injury
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), July 4 (ANI): Injury-hit Brazil's midfielder Willian has been ruled out of the Copa America final against Peru on Sunday.
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Copa America 2020 to be played in Argentina and Colombia
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], July 2 (ANI): CONMEBOL, the South American football's governing body, on Monday announced that Copa America 2020 will have two joint hosts- Argentina and Colombia.
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Copa America: Uruguay defeat Chile 1-0, finish on top in group C
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], June 25 (ANI): Uruguay defeated Chile 1-0 in their last game to finish on top in group C in Copa America on Monday.
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Dani Alves replaces Neymar as Brazil skipper for Copa America
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], May 28 (ANI): Brazil head coach Tite named Dani Alves as the skipper of the team on Tuesday for the upcoming Copa America. Alves has replaced Neymar as the skipper of Brazil.
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Brazil: Violent clashes in prisons leave 55 inmates dead
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Rio De Janeiro [Brazil], May 28 (ANI): At least 55 people were found dead after violent clashes broke out among rival drug factions in several prisons in northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, correction officials said on Monday.
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Brazil's Prez eases gun control
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], May 8 (ANI): At a time when countries like New Zealand are tightening gun laws, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree easing restrictions on gun control on Tuesday (local time).
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Brazil being governed by 'bunch of lunatics', says former President
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Apr 27 (ANI): Criticising the current leadership in Brazil, the country's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said that the South American nation is being governed by a "bunch of lunatics" or "crazy people".
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Several feared missing in Brazil bridge collapse
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Apr 7 (ANI): Several people are feared missing after a bridge partially collapsed into the Moju River in Para on Saturday (local time).
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10 dead in Brazil football training centre fire
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Feb 8 (ANI): At least 10 people were killed in a massive blaze that swept through a training centre of Brazilian football club Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro in the early morning hours of Friday.
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Brazil: Five arrested after 84 die in dam collapse
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Jan 29 (ANI): Five engineers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the collapse of a tailings dam as the death toll rose to 84.
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