Palmeiras X Prudente

This Saturday Palmeiras played against Gremio Prudente at Arena Barueri that will be Palmeiras´ new home stadium because Paletra Italia is being reformed. The match was terrible Palmeiras and Prudente didn´t score any goals ending the match 0 to 0. Palmeiras played a terrible match and if the club wants to be suceessful in the league they will have to play way much better. After the World Cup Palmeiras made an offer fro Cruzeiro´s striker Kleber paying 3 million euros to the club. Palmeiras needs to bring some new players to reinfornce the team in order to classify for Libertadores. Palmeiras siad other names as well like Luis Felipe Scolari who was Palmeiras coach in 1999 and the midfielder Alex who is now 33 years old and played for the club in the past. Another player that the club has in mind is Valdivia who was Palmeiras´ star in 2006/2007. Palmeiras´ next game is against Flamengo and the club is really looking forward to win the match to give the team a boost to end up well before the tournament stops for the World Cup.

Antonio Carlos and Robert got fired

Palmeiras traveled to Rio to play againt Vasco da Gama. Before the match the head coach Antonio Carlos Zago and Palmeiras´ striker Robert started to argue. Due to the clubs crisis Robert got very depressed and drank a lot one day before the match. Antonio Carlos and Robert started to argue and both of them started to call each other names. Some say that they even assaulted one another. The match ended 0 to 0 and both of them got fired due to their immaturity. Palmeiras is in a big crisis and the club is having dificulties to get out of it. Palmeiras is loooking for new players and a coach to came after the world cup. Felipão was Palmeiras coach in 1999 and he won the Libertadores with the club and the team really want´s him to be head coach. Other players that played in the club in the past might return. Palmeiras really wants Valdivia that is a brilliant midfielder. Alex from Fenerbahçe from Turkey want´s to return to the club as well. Alex played for Palmeiras in 1999 and won the Libertadores cup. Kleber who is currently playing in Cruzeiro is another player that the cluub is looking forward to have to replace Robert. I believe that Palmeiras will be leaving this crisis very soon.

Diego Souza is Leving the Club

Palmeiras best midfielder Diego Souza is leaving the club due to his inapropriate gesture to the fans. Diego Souza´s future is undefined but Traffic want´s to sell him to a club in the exterior. A team from Qatar offered 5,4 million euros and Traffic is thinking on selling him to the club. Corinthians who just lost Libertadores also showed signs of interest in the young midfielder making an offer of 4 million reais. The club wanted the player to apoligize to the fans through the media but he denied. Diego Souza said that he was injured so he would not play agianst Atletico- Go for Copa do Brazil but he didn´t show up to recover from his injury meaning that he was faking his injury so he wouldn´t play. Diego Souza just got his salary cut sue to the number of times that he didn´t appear in practice. Diego is in the club since 2008 playing more than 100 games for the club. Diego Souza at the end of last year had a chance to play in Brazils national team against Bolivia. He did not perform well and Dunga who is Brazil´s coach never called him agian. Traffic payed 10 million reais to Gremio which is the players´ club before he came to Palmeirs. The future of the club is not yet decided.

Palmeiras X Atletico-Go

This Thursday Palmeiras played against Atletico-Go in their home stadium Palestra Italia. Palmeiras didn´t play a good match but was able to win due to a penalty kick at the last minute of the match. Marcos Assunção was playing his first match for the club anf he really wanted to start well atr the club. Robert was substituted during the second half and the fans started to insult him due to his week performance. Diego Souza who is Palmeiras best midfielder also did not play well and was substituted during the second half. When he was being substituted the fans started to insult him due to his weak performance. Diego Souza didn´t handle the situation very well and he showed his middle finger to the fans making them more nervous and mad. Diego Souza was very immature and Antonio Carlos Palmeiras head coach did not like Diego´s decision and he got very mad at him because he didnt have the right to do that.The stadium was very full. There were about 24,000 fans at the stadium trying to support the club in order for the club be succeesful at Copa do Brazil. At the last minute Paulo Henrique who came in for Diego Souza was tackled from behind and the referee awarded a penalty for Palmeiras. Cleiton Xavier was in charge of the kick and he scored ending the match one to zero for Palmeiras. This Monday Palmeiras will be traceling to Goias to play against Atletico at their home stadium and if Palmeiras really wants to go to the semi-finals Palmeiras will have to play very well in order to beat Atletico.