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Media Week: Copaca-Barnet? Brazil goes nuts for the Football League

If you follow The Seventy Two with any sort of recurring interest, you will know all about the Football League Brasil lads by now. If not, you can read up here and here. This is the third instalment of our ongoing saga, in which Gilmar Siqueira tells us what it is like to keep up with events in the Championship, League One and League Two from the other side of the Atlantic… Follow international football in Brazil is a daunting task for anyone, like me, do not have cable television. But now it’s hard to keep up with the big…

Brazilian love for the Football League - a season review

If you are unfamiliar with Gilmar Siqueira and Football League Brasil, please, please read this article first. If you already know about them, read on… I asked for Gilmar to sum up his thoughts on Football League Brasil’s first season covering the Championship, League One and League Two. In his reply, he apologised for his English and I could have attempted to rewrite this. But I think it reads far more beautifully without any of my meddling. I just wish I could speak as eloquently in Portuguese about the Brazilian lower leagues. One last thing - I don’t often ask…