Mauricio Savarese
Latest articles by Mauricio Savarese

Great Goals Retold: Carlos Alberto vs Italy, 1970
By Mauricio Savarese published
Great Goals Retold Back in 2014, the former Brazil captain talked FourFourTwo through his iconic goal in the 1970 World Cup Final

Ronaldinho: "I was 48 hours from joining Man United... and then Sandro Rosell called"
By Mauricio Savarese published
The Big Interview Who was the best player he ever came up against? How tough a decision was it to leave Barcelona? And why didn't he join United before that? YOUR questions answered...

'Barnes made us all confused about what he’d do, that’s why no one tackled him'
By Mauricio Savarese published
Great Goals Retold John Barnes' slalom spectacular against Brazil, as told by the men he beat at the Maracana in 1984...

Where are they now? Brazil’s wasted generation that could have won the World Cup
By Mauricio Savarese published
Brazil Mauricio Savarese looks at what might have been for Brazil at the World Cup after the fall from grace of six of their star players...

Dunga returns to prove why Brazil really are backwards
By Mauricio Savarese published
Dunga Dunga is back in the Brazil hotseat but few are happy about it, as FFT's Brazilian correspondent Mauricio Savarese discusses...

Year Zero: Brazil may want to copy trendy European models, but they can't afford to
By Mauricio Savarese published
Brazil Mauricio Savarese looks at the fallout from Brazil's World Cup campaign and wonders whether the 7-1 defeat to Germany might in fact be a spark for positive change...

Pelé: The only Brazilian to come out of the World Cup (even) bigger than he started
By Mauricio Savarese published
Pelé Mauricio Savarese on the upsurge in popularity of Brazil's prized treasure during the South American showpiece...

Panic on the streets of Rio: Bitterness rises between Brazil and Argentina fans ahead of Maracana final
By Mauricio Savarese published
Brazil Mauricio Savarese reports on the growing emnity between Brazilians and Argentinians ahead of the World Cup final...

Mineirazo is a sad comedy, not a Maracanazo tragedy – and Luiz is the least of Brazil's problems
By Mauricio Savarese published
Brazil FFT's man in Brazil Mauricio Savarese on what happens next after one of history's most stunning semi-final results...

Neymar the Redeemer: How Brazil's boy wonder came to carry the hopes of a nation
By Mauricio Savarese published
Neymar FFT's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, explains why 200,000,000 people have everything pinned on the 22-year-old former tearaway from São Paulo...

A leader and a perfectionist: Meet our guest editor Ronaldo
By Mauricio Savarese published
FourFourTwo For FFT's 20th-anniversary issue - available now, worldwide - we hired an all-time legend legend as guest editor: a certain Ronaldo, no other name needed. Mauricio Savarese explains how the Phenomenon became FFT's gaffer...

Why Brazilians want Uruguay to beat England
By Mauricio Savarese published
Uruguay The Maracanazo? Ask granddad, modern Brazilians tell Mauricio Savarese...

Things could be about to get worse for Diego Costa, the most hated player in Brazil
By Mauricio Savarese published
Diego Costa FFT's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, on the least welcome visitor to this summer's World Cup...

100 days to go: Brazil are just like their stadia - still a few pieces short
By Mauricio Savarese published
FIFA World Cup FFT's Brazilian correspondent, Mauricio Savarese, discusses the missing elements of Luiz Felipe Scolari's Brazil team...

Four months to the World Cup; four Brazilian stadiums still in deep trouble
By Mauricio Savarese published
World Cup 2014 FFT's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, reports on the mounting problems for the World Cup's host nation...

Déjà Flu sends Brazilian club football into chaos
By Mauricio Savarese published
Fluminense FFT's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, on the full-blown farce threatening to derail the country's top flight in a rather big year...

Brazil's football violence won't stop the World Cup, the World Cup won't stop the violence
By Mauricio Savarese published
World Cup 2014 FourFourTwo.com's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, reports on the disturbing scenes that marred the final weekend of the domestic season...

Reaction: World Cup managers speak to FFT
By Mauricio Savarese published
World Cup 2014 FourFourTwo grabs a quick word with the great and the good of world football in the aftermath of the World Cup 2014 draw...

England fans better off in Brazil's most visited cities
By Mauricio Savarese published
England England fans will be better off in Brazil’s most visited cities next summer, according to Britain's ambassador to the World Cup hosts.

Brazilians fearing France as World Cup draw looms
By Mauricio Savarese published
FIFA World Cup Old traumas and the brilliant generation led by Arsenal's Mesut Ozil are all Brazilians want to avoid during next year's World Cup.

Zagallo doubts Brazil, England 2014 chances
By Mauricio Savarese published
FIFA World Cup Unlike most of his compatriots, four-time World Cup winner Mario Zagallo doesn’t believe Brazil yet have what it takes to win the Holy Grail on home soil next summer.

Will the 'curse' of the Costa do Sauípe resort haunt the 2014 World Cup draw?
By Mauricio Savarese published
FIFA World Cup FourFourTwo's man in Brazil, Mauricio Savarese, arrives at the Costa do Sauípe Resort - venue for Friday's World Cup finals draw - only to learn it has a rather inauspicious history...
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