Brazil are in action for the last time this year when they take on Portugal in a friendly in the newly-built 20,000 capacity estádio Bezerrão in Brasília on Wednesday ... Click to continue reading...

Not the most exciting game (due mostly to the absence of Manucho.... and that fact that it apparently was only broadcast in the Far East). Nevertheless, a win is a win, and I hope that this gives the youth brigade something to build on. As far as I can tell, the most noteworthy point of the game was that, as hard as Tevez was trying to score, Anderson seemed to be doing everything in his power to keep himself from hurting the back of the net.

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When Anderson first joined United, I was expected a flair player, who'd be great on the attack, but whose work rate may suffer. He was billed as the replacement for Paul Scholes, which was incredibly exciting, considering the thought of finding someone to fill Scholes' shoes should have been a worry for all United fans [. Click to continue reading...

Former Manchester United defender and recently hired scout, Jaap Stam, has been tracking another Brazilian starlet. Douglas Costa, from Gremio, the same Porto Alegre club that produced soccer phenom Ronaldinho and United's own Anderson. According to the players agent, Cesar Bottega, United are prepared to offer as much as £20 million for the 18-year-old attacking midfielder. Click to continue reading...

With no Premier League matches this weekend due to International World Cup Qualifiers, some Manchester United players were playing for their countries, here is how they got on. I will start off with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Click to continue reading...

As good as Manchester United were last year, and they were very good, their off the field shenanigans, mostly those involving Portuguese speaking attackers and their hooker-a-thons, left something to be desired. Not exactly getting off to a shining start in the department this year either because Anderson had a drug dealing buddy of his [. Click to continue reading...

It was reported after United's 1-1 draw away with Chelsea at the weekend that a group of Chelsea fans attacked the bus carrying the players, for the second time in the past three years. The windscreen was smashed and Chelsea have launched a 'full investigation'. Tevez, who has spent the past couple of days winding up [. Click to continue reading...

A notorious Brazilian drug dealer, known as Gigi, has been arrested in Anderson's home in Porto Alegre. The police have been following the drug dealer for a year, but insist the United midfielder does not play any part in their investigations. "Anderson's Druggie Mate?" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia. Click to continue reading...

São Paulo midfielder, Hernanes, has been called up by Brazil to replace Manchester United's Anderson ... Click to continue reading...

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2 games, 0 points. No goals scored and five goals allowed.

What those numbers don't tell you are the two opponents in question. At Stamford Bridge against Chelsea and then host to Manchester United.

When Portsmouth saw their early season schedule, they had to be a little concerned.

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Papa Bouba Diop does, however, get points for creativity as he attempts to put Anderson out for the count. (AFP/FIFA) Click to continue reading...

There is always apprehension ahead of travelling to Fratton Park due to their recent good history against us. When looking at the players we had available to us, the worries increased. No Ryan Giggs, Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo, Park Ji-Sung, Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves, with Anderson supposedly exhausted after 6 games in 18 matches in China. Click to continue reading...

Anderson collected a bronze medal in the Olympics last week with Brazil, after losing out to the eventual winners, Argentina, in the semi-finals. He played in the bronze medal winning match on the Friday, following a period of 6 games in 18 days, then after a 13 hour flight, arrived back in Manchester at 5pm on [. Click to continue reading...

After being humiliated by Argentina in the semi-finals, Brazil overcame Belgium 3-0 in today's match played for the bronze medal. Anderson had a good game, playing in a more defensive role for Brazil, breaking up play and bursting forward with good pace. However, as the bluenoses will love to tell you, it was their new £19 million [. Click to continue reading...

Anderson, who suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Argentina at the Olympics yesterday, seems chuffed to bits to be a Manchester United player. He had far more game time than anyone had anticipated last season and got some great performances under his belt, particularly against the trickier matches with Arsenal and Liverpool as [. Click to continue reading...

ARGENTINA! surprisingly battered Brazil in today's semi-final at the Olympics, meaning they will not go on to play Nigeria in Saturday's final for the gold medal. The referee was taking no prisoners, sending off two frustrated Brazilian's for challenges that would usually see just a yellow card in the Premiership. Click to continue reading...

Benzema celebrates after scoring Lyon's only goal in last year's 2-1 loss to Lorient.

This week, Lyon travel to Brittany to face FC Lorient at Le Stade Moustoir. Lorient is currently tied for 2nd place with seven other teams in L1, having defeated Le Mans 1-0 in the first week.

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Anderson is hugely popular with the United faithful, showing bags of skill, confidence, fight, and potential to become one of the World's greatest. The only area he has been lacking so far is in the scoring department, with his debut season finishing without a goal. Some might say he made up for this with his penalty [. Click to continue reading...

Poor ol Kleberson. As if his stint at United wasn't embarrassing enough, without Old Trafford's favourite new chant having to bring back all the memories. Anderson, unlike his fellow Brazilian, is a top quality player and certainly is better than Kleberson. "I have come from one big club to another so I am very happy," Kleberson [. Click to continue reading...

You can't blame Carlos Queiroz one bit for answering the call from his country. He's 55 years old, and if he didn't take this job now, he may never have gotten another chance, especially with Jose Mourinho already on the record as saying he intends to finish his managerial career with the Portuguese national team. Click to continue reading...

Premier League trio Anderson, Lucas and Jo have all been named in Brazil's 18-man Olympic squad.All three - of Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City - are named as regular Under-23 players and therefore clubs cannot refuse to release them.

Something to keep in mind when the season starts as these players won't have been with their teams in pre-season. Click to continue reading...

The 20-year-old Brazilian from Porto Allegre twisted his left knee after Brazil's World Cup qualifier with Argentina. Anderson was carried off in the first half on a stretcher. Brazil team doctor Jose Luiz Runco had this to say "However, it doesn't seem so serious. We will be sure only after the MRI scans. Click to continue reading...

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The hype surrounding the Champions League final is showing no signs of abating. You can pretty much find a quote from any Manchester United or Chelsea player by trawling the internet, while both managers have obviously got plenty to say on the Moscow showdown. However, the same thing happened ahead of the 2007 FA Cup [. Click to continue reading...

After a strangely defensive match at the Nou Camp in which they seemed to adopt a catenaccio mindset, United will look to get back to their usual attacking approach. At the Nou Camp, United appeared content to hope for something on the counter-attack often leaving Cristiano Ronaldo isolated alone up front with Rooney defending on [. Click to continue reading...

It's clear that Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs are coming to the end of their illustrious careers at Manchester United. Between them, they've won a veritable stack of silverware and will rightly go down as legends at Old Trafford. Both still have a part to play this season, although some Red Devils fans have been [. Click to continue reading...

The Premier League and Champions League double is in range for Manchester United; in fact, they're strong favourites with the bookmakers to win both competitions. Whether or not they add both pieces of silverware to an already gleaming trophy cabinet, The Guardian reports that Sir Alex Ferguson is looking to add to his squad of [. Click to continue reading...

Not that anyone wouldn't have realized this by now. The 19-year old Brazilian wonderkid Anderson, who shares a penchant for women like his United team mate Cristiano Ronaldo, says that he is loving life at Old Trafford: I had more freedom and played as a No.10 against Liverpool. I feel very at ease playing this way and [. Click to continue reading...

At the start of the year, it look like Anderson might take some time to settle in at Manchester United. But things have really changed over the last couple of months, as Anderson and Paul Scholes continue to battle for playing time.

With his performance over the last couple of months Anderson has become a favorite of Red Devil fans. Click to continue reading...

I must admit, when i saw Anderson first few games for United i was in doubt on the young Brazillian's talent, he looked out of sorts and didn't really performed well, but when Scholes got injured the 19-year-old stepped in and with every game grew in confidence and showed exceptional talent.

Sir Alex Ferguson has now hailed Anderson as the natural successor to Old Trafford veteran Paul Scholes.

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The Mirror quotes Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson saying what we have known all along: that Anderson is the natural understudy to Paul Scholes in the Red Devils team. This is what Sir Alex says about the Brazilian wonderkid whom he signed from FC Porto for £19 million in the summer: Anderson has exploded on to [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United routed their title rivals Arsenal at Old Trafford to knock the Gunners out of the FA Cup in the fifth round proper. The Luis Nani-inspired drubbing was only Arsenal's fourth defeat in all competitions this season, and manager Arsene Wenger will be hoping that his team can bounce back before an important midweek Champions League clash with AC Milan. Click to continue reading...

In one of the many mouth-watering clashes of this weekend, Liverpool will play host as they square off with Manchester United on Sunday. Liverpool are coming off the back of a 4-0 thrashing of Marseille which should definitely boost their confidence but I don't think you can compare Manchester United to Marseille at the moment. Click to continue reading...

Number one here is, despite his young age, Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, a young wonder from Gremio who shines today at Manchester United. The second popular is defenseman Anderson Cleber Beraldo, Corinthians' graduate who plays today for Olympic Lion. Besides, there is Anderson Polga in Porto, but he uses both his name and surname for his identification. Click to continue reading...

A week is a very short time in the mad world of football, and just a few days ago many fans were asking questions about new £18m summer signing Anderson. The worry was that just perhaps Fergie had dropped another big transfer bollock, the spectre of Kleberson and Djemba Djemba must still haunt the United manager.

What led to the speculation was Anderson's lack of first team outings thus far. Click to continue reading...