Latest news with #AtléticoMineiro
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
🎥 Flamengo edge Atlético in tense clash, go top in Brasileirão
It was a kind of "preview" of what is to come in the round of 16 of the Brazil Cup. And Flamengo got the better of Atlético Mineiro this Sunday (27), for the 17th round of the Brasileirão in front of 54,550 attendees. In a tense game, with a controversial move and many cards, the Rubro-Negro won 1 x 0 thanks to Léo Ortiz. And they returned to lead the Brasileirã in the 1st Half The first acute move was in favor of Galo, with Rony almost celebrating. Atlético was successful for much of the initial stage, with individual markings and long balls, managing to contain the Rubro-Negro's momentum. As the minutes passed, Flamengo was gaining more space. The controversy came after a foul by Fausto Vera on Plata. It was a penalty and turned into a foul outside the area, but without a red card. Flamengo went for the pressure before the break - and again complained about Ramon Abatti Abel. Galo, on the other hand, had a great chance on the counter-attack, but Hulk preferred to pass. Fla lethal in the air The "start" of the second half was a truncated game with little inspiration from both sides. Flamengo had more possession and volume. But continued to find difficulty against good marking. Then Luiz Araújo took a "hand" free kick and Léo Ortiz scored his fourth goal in the air this season (30'). The sequence was of unsuccessful attempts from both sides. 📊 Table and schedule 📅 With one less game, Flamengo went to 36 points. Leaving Cruzeiro (34) behind. Atlético - defeated for the third round in a row - remains with 20. It's the 13th with 15 matches played. Both will face each other again on Thursday (31) and once again at Maracanã. It will be the first leg of the round of 16 of the Brazil Cup. The return will be the following Wednesday (6) and at Arena MRV. The next commitment of the duo for BR-25 will be on Sunday (3). Rubro-Negro will visit Ceará at Castelão. While CAM will host Red Bull Bragantino. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. 📸 Wagner Meier - 2025 Getty Images
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🌎 The Club World Cup guide to...Botafogo
Our guide to all 32 clubs participating at the FIFA Club World Cup continues. You can check out the full list so far here. Today we're looking How did they qualify for the Club World Cup? 📸 Wagner Meier - 2024 Getty Images Advertisement Botafogo are more than worthy of their place at the tournament, having qualified by winning the 2024 Copa Libertadores, where they overcame fellow Brazilian side Atlético Mineiro 3-1 in the final last November. History at the Club World Cup That Libertadores triumph was a historic first for Fogo, meaning they have never participated at the Club World Cup before. Back in 1968, they did however represent South America in the Intercontinental Cup, which also took place in the United States and saw them beaten by North American outfit Akron Wingfoots. How did they perform in the 2024/25 season? At the time of writing, Botafogo have been struggling domestically and currently sit in 11th place in Serie A. On the continental stage however, things have been a little better with a place in the Copa Libertadoes knockout rounds assured. Who is the coach? 📸 Manuel Velasquez - 2024 Getty Images Advertisement Portuguese coach Renato Paiva took charge of Botafogo ahead of the beginning of the current season, following the departure of fellow countryman Artur Jorge. Paiva had previously coached clubs in Portugal, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil (where he won the State Championship with Bahia) and has built a reputation for modern, possession-based tactics across diverse footballing cultures. Who is their star player? 📸 Wagner Meier - 2024 Getty Images Igor Jesus has been a revelation for Botafogo since moving from Dubai side Shabab Al Ahli in the summer of 2024. The striker netted 25 goals for the club last term, and earned himself four caps for the senior Brazil national team, for whom he scored on his debut against Chile in October 2024. Expected performance at the Club World Cup Brazilian clubs have always taken the Club World Cup very seriously indeed, and Botafogo will head to the United States determined to compete for the trophy. Advertisement But their group - which also features Paris Saint-Germain, Atlético de Madrid and Seattle Sounders - is probably the tournament's Group of Death, and they will do well to even get as far as the knockout stages. If they do manage that, nobody will be looking forward to facing them. 📸 Pedro Vilela - 2025 Getty Images
The Guardian
12-06-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
Are pre-match rituals more exciting than actual football games? Perhaps scientists ought to ask the fans
A recent study of Brazilian football fans, supporters of Atlético Mineiro, monitored their heart rates before and during a big match and concluded that, a single goal aside, the collective rituals of the day were more emotionally intense than anything else. So going to the football is about more than the football; but we surely knew that anyway? Does the kind of neurophysiological approach take us any further? In the end this study relied on a very small sample – just 17 fans – and a very particular sample at that; the kind of supporter who shows up more than four hours before a game, and is all-in with the choreographed pre-match rituals of flares, fireworks and singing. Even then, the idea that heart rate is the most useful cipher for emotion is too crude a proposition to capture how we experience the game. This research was done at the final of the Minas Gerais state championships, against their eternal local rivals; I wonder what the results would have looked like from one of Bristol Rovers' tortuous late-season defeats this year? What is the physiological metric for ennui? Viewed from a sociological or anthropological perspective, the idea that football fans would find the arrival of the team bus, marching to the stadium and the kick-off of the to game itself equally intense emotional experiences, and that these should exceed their level of excitement for most of their time actually watching the game, is hardly surprising. Football should be understood as simultaneously a collective ritual, a public theatre of identity and a long-running participatory soap opera, in which the game itself is just one element of the liturgy, the drama and the narrative, and in which the emotional weight of public gathering and collective chanting are equivalent to scoring a goal; and by the looks of the Brazilian research, the gathering and the chanting were more engaging than nearly all of the second half. In any case, there is a lot more than just excitement going on. Watching football, and this is its genius, elicits an enormous diversity of emotions and psychological states; from boredom to despair, from empathy to anger. Heart rates and ECGs are all very well, but until we actually ask football fans what these moments mean, and set their own interpretations in a wider historical and cultural context, we aren't going to learn very much. Neurophysiology can only take us so far: a similar study of Canadian ice hockey fans found that those with a deeper knowledge of the game found more moments more stressful than the average spectator as they could perceive threat and risk more acutely; but again, the question really is, why should this matter? For more than a century now, watching and following professional football has been a place in which neighbourhood, urban, sub-national and national identities have been expressed and performed. They have been joined by markers of class, gender, ethnicity, religion and language. This has persisted despite the globalisation and commercialisation of the game, changes that have diluted the link between clubs and localities, and seen ever more ingenious ways deployed to control the behaviour of crowds, and to focus them on consumption rather than celebration. Indeed, if the attendance figures at English football, now at a historical high, are anything to go by, these links have intensified. In an ever more individualised, atomised and deracinated world, football's collectivities, and its deeply communitarian cultures, are more valuable then ever with their promise, if not always the reality, of the safe, the secure, the known and the authentic. In an ever more mediated and digital world, and despite our addiction to our phones, it offers the chance to be in the moment, in the presence of others. In a world where the rate and scale of change has multiplied, at precisely the moment that politics has abandoned storytelling for bland technocracy or wild conspiracy theory, football generates comprehensible narratives. And just occasionally, despite everything, it offers up moments of scintillating narrative drama, and of balletic and kinetic energy that are both beautiful and thrilling. Had the research been done at one of this year's Champions League semi-finals, a match of wildly gyrating fortunes that finished Internazionale 4 Barcelona 3 – and was as good and exciting a game as I have ever seen – we might be drawing very different conclusions. David Goldblatt is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives. His new book Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency (Mudlark) will be published in August
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Atlético-MG struggle in the air and lose to Chilean league's bottom side
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. Atlético Mineiro met Deportes Iquique again this Thursday (8). And disappointed its fans. They took the lead, but saw the team that is 16th and last in the Chilean Championship win 3 x 2. The match was played at the Tierra de Campeones Stadium and was valid for the fourth round of Group H of the Copa Sudamericana. The result put the Chilean team in contention for qualification. Check out the highlights of the match the lead, but... Even without Hulk, Lyanco and Arana, the start was positive for Atlético. They controlled the game and posed a threat - mainly with Rony. And they scored the deserved goal just ten minutes in thanks to a play started and finished by Rubens. But Atlético did not take advantage of their superior technical quality to dominate. They had already made Everson work until Orellana's cross found Álvaro Ramos free in the box (35'). Aerial ball becomes a drama for Galo Fernando Díaz would have more success in his personal dispute with Cuca. He saw his Iquique turn the game around after another high ball play. From the very veteran Puch to Ramos to deflect (52'). Shortly after, a new cross from the left found Orellana, who beat Everson (61'). Highlighting Iquique's great efficiency: three accurate shots on Atlético's goal and three goals. New changes made Atlético more productive with the ball. Cuello and, later, Rony, were stopped by Requeña. But Bernard had better luck (79'). His second goal since returning to the club. The pressure to equalize did not work. And Galo paid dearly for the many marking errors. 📊 Standings and schedule 📅 Atlético stopped at five points. They could see Caracas (five) pull away if they beat Cienciano (three) later. Iquique reached four points and started to dream of qualification. Galo will play two matches at the Arena MRV: against Caracas (15/5) and Cienciano (29/5). Iquique will be the visitor twice: Cienciano (15/5) and Caracas (29/5). On Sunday (11), Atlético (10th) will return to play at home to challenge Fluminense (5th). Match for the eighth round of the Brasileirão.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Fluminense OFFICIALISES duo of reinforcements; see when they signed
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. Fluminense has made official the two signings that were well underway. Otávio left Atlético Mineiro to sign until December 2027. Everaldo was already at Bahia. And closed until December next year. First midfielder, Otávio was a request from coach Mano Menezes and had only 28 minutes in three games with the Rooster - always coming from the bench. Athletico's youth player, he arrived at the Minas Gerais club in 2022 after four and a half years at Bordeaux. The center-forward, in turn, lost space with the arrival of Willian José to the team commanded by Rogério Ceni. There were six matches (three among the 11) and three goals scored in 2025. He had been defending the Bahian club since 2023. He arrives to replace Kauã Elias. 📸 Wagner Meier - 2024 Getty Images
