International break

Nope. The regional leagues usually last for about four months or so, in time for the national competitions to start.
It wasn't always like this, though. It used to be an unspeakable mess that would take forever to explain.

The state championships are basically just mandatory pre-season. The only people that care about them are supporters of smaller teams that have a chance at taking down some of the big guys and supporters of whoever wins them. The ones that lose couldn't really give a shit. In that sense it's similar to the EFL Cup, come to think of it.

I remember seeing some games in the late 90s when Ronaldinho was playing for Gremio and I was never sure about whether the games were league or cups.

What are the biggest rivalries in Brazil?

Probably Flamengo-Fluminense, Grêmio-Internacional and Palmeiras-Corinthians. Though I should point out that these days everyone seems to have a bone to pick with both Flamengo and Corinthians, the dirty bastards.

Corinthians and Flamengo x human beings in Brazil.

Okay, seriously
>Corinthians x Palmeiras
>Flamengo x Fluminense
>Flamengo x Vasco
>Grêmio x Internacional
>Cruzeiro x Atlético-MG
And a shitload of other ones, but these are the most "relevant", so to speak. We're quite passionate about football in general, so any regional rivalry is guaranteed to make waves and (mostly) fill stadiums.

For you

>fill stadiums
Kek.
These days, the only stadium that I see regularly full is Allianz Parque. Even Vila Belmiro is mostly empty and that thing is tiny, teeny-tiny.

Nice digits

I’m too embarrassed to admit i’m lonely

Trivia: 171 is our criminal code for stelionate.

Which is why I said mostly. Last sunday I went to see Fortaleza x Ceará, and they couldn't fill Castelão. Though that's also in part due to the need to create isolation zones so the fans don't mix and fight each other like ye olden days.

Well, I'd rather have isolation zones than what they've done in São Paulo. We can't have away fans in derbies, for fuck's sake. It's pathetic.

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Was sacking Strachan a mistake?

Use your imagination.

go back to Yea Forums

Shut up, you simian fuck, and appreciate a thread that isn't just generic Premier League memes, Messi vs. Cristiano bullshit or >American '''''''sports'''''''

Wow, that's fucked and cucked.
Here, not only do we need isolation zones, the away team must also wait a shitload of time to get out of the stadium. Also, the police needs to "guide" the fans around as if they were cattle. Which they may as well be, the lot of assholes.

no. It's a UCL style tournament for the state championships (group stage then knockouts) and then a regular 38-game league season.

Yeah, I mean, that all sounds insufferable and it's sad -- though utterly unsurprising -- that the level of violence here is still so high that it's necessary, but at least it preserves some small amount of atmosphere in big derbies. Paulista derbies, on the other hand, mostly feel like just another match. If I didn't know fans of rival teams that I can gloat to whenever >we (Palmeiras) win, they wouldn't even feel like big occasions.

>UCL style
In some states, maybe. The Paulistão's format, on the other hand, is pants-on-head retarded.
>In the first stage the sixteen teams are drawn, with seeding, into four groups of four teams each, with each team playing once against the twelve clubs from the other three groups. After each team has played twelve matches, the top two teams of each group qualify for the quarter-final stage.
>After the completion of the first stage, the two clubs with the lowest number of points, regardless of the group, will be relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2.
>Quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are played in a two-legged home and away fixture, with the best placed first stage team playing the second leg at home.
>In case of a draw in any knockout stage, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
>The two highest-placed teams not otherwise qualified will qualify for the 2020 Copa do Brasil.
>The top three highest-placed teams in the general table at the end of the competition who are not playing in any level of the national Brazilian football league system will qualify for the 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

They were honestly still playing like shit under him. Scotland, like the US, isn't ready to accept theyre just a shit team.

Yeah, but it's the difference between West Brom with Pulis and West Brom with Pardew. Both are shit, but only the latter makes you want to claw your own eyes out, they're so awful.

We fully accept we're shite.

just to suffer

Yea Forums is the only board i post on these days
feels like its the only board left with "culture"

Yea Forums and Yea Forums are decent, honestly. Well, Yea Forums is kinda shit because it's full of pretentious cunts, but both allow for more interesting conversations than the rest of Yea Forums, where spouting edgy memes takes precedence.

It's March Madness for fans of real sports.