TIME: Corithians and MSI Saving Brazilian Soccer :/

[SoccerScout]

What the F was this writer thinking..and why is this dated Late 2007?????????

This idiot praises MSI, KIa and Corinthians ...ummmmmm helllooooo.....that stole and bought everthing in front of them!! Was this guy on Mars????? And this is TIME magazine!!!???? The only Brazilian team to fill stadiums????The list goes on....

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1194033,00.html

[dylan da fiel]

Wow... this is a really strange article. The date must be wrong -- it seems like it was written after Corinthians was eliminated from Libertadores and before Brazil was knocked out of the World Cup, so May-June 2006. Still, everyone with a brain knew the MSI deal was dirty even back then.

Unfortunately, there's this mindset that free trade and foreign investment solve all problems. For example, the book "Soccer Against the Enemy" made it sound like foreign investment in Brazilian football was a magic potion that only wanted to wash away corruption and make things more rational, professional, and profitable -- a pretty hilarious argument after this whole MSI debacle.

Writers like this seem so naive. It never occurred to them that foreigners with lots of money might be just as corrupt as the cartolas, and together they might f*ck things up even more, instead of magically turning the Brazilian league into the Bundesliga?

[dylan da fiel]

Oh my god... and the same guy wrote this in September 2006:

"Corinthians fans need to grow up and realised that the MSI deal the best thing to happen to the club in years - and to Brazilian football as well."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=377839&root=global&cc=5901

Un-effing-believable. Who knows, maybe Kia was paying him off too...

[fordfjord]

Ha ha ha!!!!

About the only thing I would acknowledge as "fact" from the above article is the line, ". . .pro soccer in Brazil. . .which has been sinking under corruption, violence, archaic management and a hemorrhaging of talent to Europe and Asia."

As for the rest of it, well... I would like to try some of whatever he was drinking when he wrote that.