For decades, Brazil has boasted a reputation as being a hotbed for entertaining, unpredictable, and perhaps ‘pure’ soccer. The tradition of ‘joga bonito’, or beautiful play, a moniker applied to the ...

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, also known as "O Bruxo," but remembered in the annals of football lore as Ronaldinho, turns 45 today. While many in the current generation of football fans were not ...

Has football ever truly become “the beautiful game” it claims to be? Perhaps not, but Nike gave it a good go with their sensational Joga Bonito ad campaign back in the mid-noughties. The phrase “Joga ...

Few football shirts stir nostalgia quite like Brazil’s early-2000s Nike Total 90 kit – a design synonymous with swagger, style, and pure footballing joy. Originally worn between 2004 and 2006 by a ...