The Fußball Chatter

  Brazil. The most prosperous nation in the history of the World Cup. They are the only country to participate in every World Cup since its inception in 1930. For many outside the football circle, Brazil is the personification of football as an art form. Through skill, imagination and thought, Brazil is the country many what to emulate in their football team. They remained the last team to win it consecutively between 1958 and 1962 and produced sides that continue to live in the memory.  Since winning the tournament in 2002, Brazil has failed to make the World Cup Final and has passed beyond the quarterfinals only once. That was the 2014 World Cup, hosted on home soil. Unfortunately, the semifinal brought Brazil's lowest point in modern history, losing 7-1 against Germany. Breaking the psychological advantage Brazil had in international football. With the rapid industrialization of footballers now and Europe's constant success in the past four tournaments, many have raised the...

With the attention surrounding the Final of the European Championships between Italy and England on Sunday, it is easy to forget that there's another final taking place in the early hours of Sunday. The Copa America is at its climax with the Final taking place on Saturday night in Rio De Janeiro. The hosts and defending champions Brazil will face arch-rivals Argentina to see who will become the kings of South America. For many who are not from the Americas, the tournament has not gained much coverage due to the Euros and there was a lot of speculation if the competition can go ahead with Brazil coming in at the last minute to host the tournament with Colombia and Argentina, who were supposed to co-host the competition, pulled out due to political tensions and rise of coronavirus cases. The tournament has been played behind closed doors, making it a quiet tournament. The tournament is at its end so let's at each team's route to the Final. BRAZIL Despite being hosts, the Braz...

Bayern Complete Season with a Treble Bayern Munich ended their 2019/20 season with an unprecedented treble as they won the Champions League for the sixth time in the club's history, after beating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. Both teams have won their leagues and the domestic cup competition with winning the Champions League the icing on the cake. Both Thomas Tuchel and Hansi Flick made little changes to their starting lineups with Keylor Navas returning from injury for PSG while Kingsley Coman started ahead of Ivan Perišić for Bayern Munich. Despite no goals in the first half, it was a tense game with both sides giving each other little opportunity to strike a blow. The first big chance of the game came from Neymar, who had his shot saved by Manuel Neuer and had another opportunity but the German keeper blocked the shot. Àngel Di Maria had a massive opportunity to get PSG in front, as the Argentine was laid a chance from 10 yards but blazed his s...

So, the UEFA Champions League Final is finally upon us. The 2019/2020 Champions League season has already given us some fantastic moments from the emergence of Eerling Håland, Atlético Madrid stunning Liverpool at Anfield, the feel-good story of Atalanta, RB Leipzig reaching the semifinals, Ligue 1 not really a farmer's league and Bayern's absolute destruction of Barcelona. The final was to take place at the Atatürk Stadium in Istanbul on May 30th. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the latter stages of the competition were postponed until August with UEFA deciding to play the latter stages in Portugal, with no fans in attendance. The restart continued where we left off and now, we have our finalists with Ligue 1 Champions Paris Saint-Germain facing Bundesliga Champions Bayern Munich on Sunday at the Estádio da Luz. For PSG, this is their golden opportunity to get the holy grail they crave while Bayern is achieving a treble for the second time in the club's history. Here is...

Neymar, Neymar, Neymar. It was difficult to hear any major transfer story from the recent summer window that the Brazilian wasn't mentioned. Neymar has constantly stated his desire to leave Paris Saint-Germain with a return to Barcelona. However, the transfer window has gone shut and Neymar will be licking his wounds as Barcelona and PSG were unable to get a deal done. So what now for the 27 year old? It is not denying that Neymar is one of the best players around in the game. From his rise to stardom at Santos to being part of one of the best attacking front threes this decade at Barcelona, scoring 105 goals in 186 games, winning two La Liga title and the Champions League, he looked to become Football's next superstar after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. That's not to mention his record for Brazil, scoring 60 goals in 97 caps. Only Pele and Ronaldo have scored more goals for the Seleção. When he moved to Paris from Barcelona for a world record fee of €222m in 2...

The Summer Transfer Window has ended for all across Europe yesterday evening with the deadline day and there will be no transfer activity till January next year. The summer transfer window has seen some major deals done particularly in La Liga and Serie A but who were the biggest winners and losers from this transfer window? Winners  Atlético Madrid  Losing the likes of Antonie Griezmann, Rodri, Diego Godín, Juanfran and Filipe Luís, who were instrumental to Atléti's success under Diego Simeone, one could think that Atlético Madrid will struggle but they took action. They have spent €250m on the likes of Kieran Trippier, Marcos Llorente, Felipe, Lodi and Héctor Herrera. Their biggest acquisition is Portuguese wonderkid João Félix for a staggering €126m for Benfica. A lot of responsibility in on the 19 year old's shoulder but with what we have seen so far, he looks at home under Simeone and is the face of the 'new' Atlético Madrid.  Juventus ...

The UEFA Champions League on Wednesday saw Group A to D take action. Barcelona returned to Wembley, where they have had fond memories winning 2 of their 5 UCL titles there, to face Tottenham and continued their fine start beating the lilywhites 4-2. Paris Saint-Germain were just too good for Red Star Belgrade beating them in a 6-1 rout. Liverpool continue the trend of English struggling to get something in Italy losing their game to Napoli 1-0 at Naples while Inter came from behind to beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1. Dortmund came out 3-0 winners against Monaco, Atletico Madrid continue their 100 percent UCL record beating Club Brugge 3-1 while Schalke and Porto both got three points from their games. Here are the three things from last night’s action. Messi loves the English Lionel Messi has started off the season with a bang in the UCL from his hat-trick against PSV to his performance against Tottenham at Wembley. Wembley is a ground that Messi has great memories, playing and scori...