Robinho shocked everyone when he signed for Manchester City rather than Chelsea and the player has made a decent start to his career in England. Here's a profile. Click to continue reading...

Player Info:

Name: Robinho - Róbson de Souza
Birthdate: 25.01.1984
Origin: Brazil
Position: Attack
Team: Real Madrid

Video Info:

2006 - Liga BBVA
Real Madrid - Deportivo Alaves 3:0
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There are a number of traditions regarding the opening of presents for those who celebrate Christmas. The earliest presents are opened on St. Nicholas' Day on December 6th in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic and some other European countries.

In most other countries, presents are opened on Christmas morning. Click to continue reading...

Is it just me, or is the genre of "how much Robinho loves Man City" stories starting to feel a little played out? Click to continue reading...

Seville and Brazil frontman, Luís Fabiano, might be making a move to England and Manchester City when the transfer window opens early in 2009 ... Click to continue reading...

When was the last time Arsenal looked so pathetic? Today, they were defeated 3-0 away against Manchester City in a game where it could have easily been 4-0 or 5-0 to the blue half of Manchester. I've never seen so many poor passes from Arsenal in one game. Their first half performance was dire. Man City's play [. Click to continue reading...

Spending big does not mean success! After watching the (fairly) entertaining Hull City v Manchester City game I got to thinking about the two stars of the game and how much they cost their teams to purchase. Hull City's most consistent player so far this season must be the Brazilian, Geovanni. His deflected free kick helped to earn his Tigers a point at home against the Sky Blues over the weekend. Click to continue reading...

Brazil put an end to 19 years without a win against Portugal after they thrashed the Europeans 6-2 in the estádio Bezerrão in Brasília ... Click to continue reading...

If you haven't checked out UEFA's Training Ground in the past, it's well worth a look now. They take the biggest stars and ask them to give a short tutorial on what they do best so you can realize how goddamn difficult it is when attempting at home. Learning skills like Juan Roman Riquelme's lethal [. Click to continue reading...

It's obvious, but perhaps it needs to be stated from time to time, and Xavi, the Barcelona and Spain midfielder put it succinctly the other day when he said that "Barça and Real are like a set of scales, when things go well for one, they go badly for the other, and viceversa".

Just think back six months: Real Madrid were running rampant in a league championship they eventually won with an eighteen-point lead over Barcelona. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City multi-millionaire takes public transport Robinho and his girlfriend have been spotted using public transport for a shopping trip to Manchester's Trafford Centre. The Brazilian star shunned the centre's enormous car parking facilities to arrive by bus at the former favourite shopping haunt of Victoria Beckham. Click to continue reading...

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...

The winter transfer window doesn't open for another month and a half, but rumors are already swirling about who could be on the move in January. Today's transfer rumors center around a few players who might not be in the best of graces at their respective clubs. Elano to QPR on Loan? Could Manchester [. Click to continue reading...

According to the Guardian, Robinho harbors dreams of adding to Manchester City's Brazilian contingent, as he wants Kaka to join him in Manchester. This summer, it seemed like AC Milan were at least a little open to the idea of selling Kaka, with Chelsea linked with a world-record move for the reigning FIFA World [. Click to continue reading...

You know all the Irish jokes, but why would you want to have you head screwed on the wrong way up?


Man City's Stephen Ireland DOES have his head screwed on, cos he scored twice for Man City this afternoon in their draw at Premiership newcomers, Hull City. Click to continue reading...

Watching Manchester City yesterday left me in no doubt as to the scale of the issues currently affecting Mark Hughes team and the dreadful run of form they currently find themselves in. With 4 wins, 1 draw and 7 defeats so far in the Premier League, the optimism that greeted the signing of Robinho on [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City's 3-2 win against FC Twente was proof that the UEFA Cup can be exciting. Well at least some of the time. Robinho was in spectacular form scoring once and hitting the post twice. The one ball that did go in from the Brazilian was a sublime shot that curled into the net from outside [. Click to continue reading...

Robbo curler sinks Schteeve McClaren'sh FC Twente Another great goal from City's little magician. A moment of brilliance to spark the tie with FC Twente into a really good match. He also hit the post twice and could easily have had a hat-trick. Instead we will have to make do with the one peach! Click to continue reading...

Manchester City player gets a Brazilian Manchester City striker Darius Vassell was kindly given a change of nationality by ITV commentator Peter Drury during the Uefa Cup tie with FC Twente. The overlooked England international now faces the dubious task of breaking into the Brazil national side. Drury said: "Darius Vassell has finished his first shift back [. Click to continue reading...

The Brazilian hedgehog look Do you think he asked for a long back and short sides? Click to continue reading...

Man City, the richest club in the World, cannot buy an away win in the Premiership apart from their one and only win at Sunderland when they won 3-0. Since then City have lost at Villa 4-2, Bolton (yesterday) 2-0, Middlesboro 2-0, drew in Toon Land 2-2 and lost at Wigan 2-1.


Does Robinho really understand and know where he is? Click to continue reading...

Dunga has picked 22 players for the friendly international against Portugal on November 19th 2008 in the newly built Estádio Walmir Campelo Bezerra in Brasilia ... Click to continue reading...

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A big congratulations to Never Captain Nicky Butt blog reader "Nathan" for winning the first ever Butt Buddies Battle of Brilliance fantasy premier league contest sponsored by Soccer Pro. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you drive a stolen vehicle to court..... Pretty much the universal view on the appointment of the new Argie coach. (Argentina Offside) Becks is moving to Milan's red light district. Good times ahead. (The Spoiler) Assessing The Hand of Gilagate. (Italy Offside) Looking for participants for the FIFA 09 Offside Cup. Click to continue reading...

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Let's take a look at Gameweek 10 - analyzing (1) the best "Real life" premier league matchup, (2) the most fantasy friendly EPL fixture, and (3) Fantasy Premier League "studs" and "duds. Click to continue reading...

1. The Rocket Club in Birmingham is like Lourdes for footballers Despite suffering from fatigue, Villa's John Carew was spotted at the Birmingham lapdancing club the night before Villa's UEFA Cup game vs Ajax, which got "the city's tallest footballer" a one game timeout (and a hefty fine) from Martin O'Neill. Click to continue reading...

Another home fixture, another lamentable performance from Brazil, and yet another 0-0 in their own backyard ... Click to continue reading...

In their ninth qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup, Brazil strolled past Venezuela with goals from kaka, Adriano and two from Robinho ... Click to continue reading...

Brazil welcome back Kaká for their World Cup qualifier against Venezuela on 12th October 2008 ... Click to continue reading...

This video i found on Youtube is a short documentary/interview of Robinho. This was produced by Nike, so most likely an a video ad. The footage of him as a boy was taken in June 1992 when he was 8 years old. The boy part was only shown in the early part, and the rest just [...] Click to continue reading...

Finally. We finally got a Premier League weekend where we had two matches with teams playing their hearts out and giving it 100%. Too often this season the majority of matches have been one-sided and negative. But fair play to Manchester City and Liverpool, and Everton and Newcastle for two thoroughly exciting matches. Click to continue reading...

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Yes, Manchester City striker Robinho has today claimed he has not peaked yet. The Brazilian international made a shock move to Eastlands on transfer deadline day and has since proven a massive hit in the Premier League scoring two goals in two games.

The former Real Madrid striker told the Daily Star : "In a few weeks' time fans in England will start to see the real Robinho, I have already noticed at City there is a far better atmosphere in the dressing room then we had at Real Madrid. Click to continue reading...

The Daily Mail today reports that Robinho was swanning off to Brazil whilst his new Man City teammates were getting shamed by Brighton in the Carling Cup... The Mail reckons Sparky Hughes gave his big-money signing special dispensation to leave, saying: Sportsmail understands that Robinho, 23, had been given permission by manager Mark . Click to continue reading...

Manchester City's Robinho sacks agent Wagner Ribeiro despite huge contract

Despite helping make his client the highest-paid player in world football, agent Wagner Ribeiro has been sacked by Robinho.

From Telegraph.co.uk

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