THE LAST POSITION! FINALLY!!!

Hi, guys!!!

How are all of you? I hope you had a nice weekend!! Because I had! And soon you will know why!

FIRST HALF
22/07/2006 Figueirense 2 x 0 Grêmio
Usual result. Gremio has a bad team, so playing at opponent's home only gets the things worse.

22/07/2006 Paraná 1 x 0 Cruzeiro
Wow. Parana doesn't have a great team, but beat Cruzeiro... It really is a big surprise on the championship! Let's see if it will bear the good campaign until the end.

22/07/2006 Corinthians 2 x 2 Fortaleza
Dammit... After 550 minutes, Corinthians scored one goal... But it wasn't a bad result if we consider that Fortaleza played at opponent's home AND take a look what Corinthians' best player did to the supporters:
22/07/2006 Fluminense 2 x 2 São Caetano
Medium level team + medium level team = withdraw. It should have been a good game, I wasn't able to watch even the goals...

23/07/2006 Ponte Preta 1 x 3 São Paulo
And Sao Paulo shows that it is the best team indeed. Again, my answer to that is management (without the processes! hahaha). I have to recognize that Mr. Marcelo Portugal Gouvea (ex-president of the club) did an EXCELLENT job.
By the way, Sao Paulo played this match only with substitutes, because the main players are taking a rest for the wednesday's game against Chivas Guadalahara by Libertadores Cup.

23/07/2006 Vasco 2 x 1 Atlético Paranaense
Atlético Paranaense had its sequence of invencibility. I just can't understand how Vasco made it. It is a very bad team!

23/07/2006 Santa Cruz 3 x 0 Flamengo
hahahaha This only proves that Flamengo REALLY depends on 3 players (which I think you have already realized that didn't play)... Soon we will see it suffering.

23/07/2006 Goiás 1 x 3 Palmeiras
After the World Cup, the statistics are: 3 matches, 3 victories. Very nice results!!! For a team that nobody thought it would be able to win again... But it is still on the red zone, under the threat of falling down to the second division.

23/07/2006 Internacional 0 x 0 Botafogo
An explainable result. Yes, Botafogo is awful, but Internacional was doing the same as Sao Paulo: the main players did not play in order to take a rest to wednesday's match, against Libertad by Libertadores Cup.

23/07/2006 Santos 3 x 2 Juventude
After 49 days, Santos played at its home!! And it brought good new feelings, because after 4 games without winning, Santos finally won!
By the way, Mr. Vanderlei Luxemburgo (team's coach) interviewed today and said he DOESN'T want to coach Brazil's official team...

So the Classification Table is:
POINTS WIN WITHDRAW LOSS
1st Sao Paulo 29 9 2 2
2nd Cruzeiro 25 7 4 2
3rd Internacional 25 7 4 2
4th Parana 24 7 3 3
5th Fluminense 24 7 3 3
6th Figueirense 21 6 3 4
7th Santos 21 6 3 4
8th Vasco 19 5 4 4
9th Goias 18 5 3 5
10th Juventude 17 5 2 6
11th Sao Caetano 16 4 4 5
12th Gremio 16 4 4 5
13th Botafogo 15 3 6 4
14th Atletico Paranaense 14 4 2 7
15th Flamengo 14 4 2 7
16th Ponte Preta 14 4 2 7
17th Palmeiras 13 4 1 8
18th Santa Cruz 12 3 3 7
19th Fortaleza 12 2 6 5
20th Corinthians 10 3 1 9 (see why I'm happy???? HAHAHAHAHA)

SECOND HALF
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the 2006 Miss Universe:

Her name is Zuleyka Rivera, from Porto Rico.

Ok, ok, I'm not an specialist (and I don't want to be), but I think this was kind of an unfair result... Probably her interview with the judges were better than her biggest opponent's. Who was her biggest opponent? Miss Japan:

Her name is Kurara Chibana, who I think is more charismatic than Ms. Rivera because she spoke to the crowd! But anyway, at least she won the Miss National Costume prize, she dressed a samurai costume:
One thing I was really impressed was about her height: 5'8" (173cm)! So far I've never seen a japanese woman as tall as I...

Well, if you want to know, Miss Brazil was there too:

Her name is Rafaela Zanella and she is from Rio Grande do Sul state (known by its beautiful women - and tall! Do you know the top Gisele Bündchen? She is from there). Unfortunately she was disclassified on the 2nd stage...

My favorite? Well, there were many pretty women, but among the finalists, I expected Miss Paraguay would win. But I think the beauty is not the only criterion for that...

OVERTIME
Reona: Thank you for the comment! No, unfortunately, as I told you while we were chatting, the flight was cancelled... But this week Juliane arrives for sure! I mean if it is not Varig flight company... hahaha
Neither did I know about Friends' Day. The important thing is we worth them!
I agree with you, Japan needs a star again. But as you said, if Japan's system doesn't support young players, there will be no one. If making money is the problem, well, you japanese people are very intelligent, a nice marketing plan would be able to make money easily.
And you read this kind of books? Well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean they are useless, but the advertisement were abolutely empty of meaning... And I'm very curious to know what these courses and technics are about. Yes, let's chat about it!

Erika: Yes, the picture is very funny!!! I laughed at it because Brazil's team was really LOST on the field against France... And Ronaldo is a very know star. You are right, he is an admirable person: broke his knee twice but was able to get back to soccer. Did you know he is the UNICEF's official ambassador in Brazil? Thank you for "el comentario"! hahaha