From Tevez to Torpor, Corinthians Relegated From the Brasileirão
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| The Football Tragic found this 12/3/2007 on pitchinvasion.net [flag] |
It began with a bang, back in 2004. When Carlos Tevez moved from Boca Juniors to Corinthians for a Brazilian-record $18m, their new owner MSI’s frontman Kia Joorabchian promised it hailed a new era for the club and even for Brazilian football as a whole.
“Our plan is to build Corinthians into a team of galácticos,” he said . “Our goal is to do what Man United and ...
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Published 12/3/2007 by Mike Salter at The Football Tragic
Freshly relegated to the second tier of Brazilian football following a tumultuous few years, the Sao Paulo club Corinthians have reaped what they have sown. The long saga of their relationship with the mysterious MSI group is ferociously complicated, but the American football scribe Thomas Dunmore (who was also one of the few to bring the latest FIFA embarrassment to light) has given a good summary of the whole sorry business on his excellent Pitch Invasion blog. It is a telling irony that the first club to have seriously shot itself in the ...
