Category Archives: South American Soccer Players

Lionel Andrés Messi

Lionel Messi as popularly known by most football aficionados all around the world. Messi, stands only about 5 feet and 7 inches in height, only shows that shortage in height is not a disadvantage at all. He is every football … Continue reading

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Leonardo Inojoza Filho

This profile was emailed to Soccerly, probably by the player himself. Based on this kid’s website, Leonardo Inojoza Filho is a Brazilian-Canadian footballer. He was born in Brazil, but transferred to Canada when he was 6 years old. According to … Continue reading

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Chelsea in Hot Water Over Neymar

Santos FC have reported Chelsea to FIFA about the latter’s approached to the Brazilian club’s prized football wizard Neymar. Last year, Chelsea was entangled in a legal battle over French forward Gael Kakuta. The English club reportedly persuaded the teenager … Continue reading

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Neymar and Pato on the Scoresheet for Brazil

Two young phenom Brazilians Neymar and Pato helped down team USA in a friendly match in New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. 18 year old Neymar took Brazil ahead in the 29th minute. This is just his first game for … Continue reading

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Neymar

Neymar da Silva Santos or just simply Neymar is a Brazilian future soccer star. He is the most highly rated Brazilian recently that many labeled him as the “New Pele” or New “Robinho”. But with the scoring feat he did … Continue reading

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Andy Najar

Andy Najar Rodriguez, the future of US Soccer? Or should I say Honduras? The 17 year old soccer player is of Honduran nationality and currently plays for DC United, a club in the American league – MLS. He was reportedly … Continue reading

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Sandro Raniere

Sandro Raniere is a Brazilian midfielder playing for Internacional, but will begin to play for Tottenham Hotspur in the Barclays Premier League in 2010-2011 season. The deal is reportedly to be about £6.5 million. Sandro Raniere Born: March 15, 1989 … Continue reading

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Sergio Aguero For 45m pounds?!

What were the Atletico Madrid executives thinking? Those men in ties just want to join in the inflated transfer market brought about by the sale of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo. Sergio Aguero is super talented alright, no doubt about it. … Continue reading

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Brazilian teenager Dodo will join Manchester United

Dodo will likely join Manchester United in the January transfer window in 2010 for a reported fee of 6 million euros. He started playing in Cruzeiro at 11 years old, then moved to Corinthians in 2007 where he plays defender. … Continue reading

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The Young Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona was destined for greatness in the field of football. Let me be specific with that. He was not that great outside of football, a life filled with controversy – drugs and producing illegitimate children. Anyway, as a young … Continue reading

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Video of Robinho as an 8 year old boy

This video i found on Youtube is a short documentary/interview of Robinho. This was produced by Nike, so most likely, a video ad. The footage of him as a boy was taken in June 1992 when he was 8 years … Continue reading

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Lucas Leiva

Brazilian Lucas Leiva signed for Liverpool in July 2007. He also holds an Italian passport, but chose to play for Brazil. He is nephew of former Brazilian soccer player Leivinha. Lucas is the youngest player ever to win the Bola … Continue reading

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