Luiz Felipe Scolari has included Ronaldinho and Alexandre Pato in the Brazil squad to play a friendly at Bolivia on Saturday.
Only players from Brazilian clubs were called up for the match in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Part of the proceeds from the friendly will go to the family of 14-year-old Kevin Beltran Espada who was killed at a Copa Libertadores match in February.
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Paris Saint-Germain showed it has the guts to go with the wallet as the ambitious big spenders twice came from behind to salvage a 2-2 draw at home to four-time champion Barcelona in the first leg of their eventful Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.
Blaise Matuidi's deflected shot crept into the net in the fourth minute of injury time to provide a bit of hope for PSG ahead of the return leg at the Camp Nou — especially as Barcelona could be without Lionel Messi after the Argentina forward limped off with a hamstring injury at halftime after scoring the opening goal.
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Bayern Munich ended Juventus' unbeaten record in the Champions League this season with a 2-0 win Tuesday in the first leg of their quarterfinal, stunning the Italian team with a goal in the first minute and then dominating much of the match.
David Alaba got the home side off to a perfect start when his speculative effort from outside the penalty area took a deflection off Arturo Vidal before swerving inside the right post, just 25 seconds into the game.
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A big effort from Detroit's bench ensured a happy ending to Jose Calderon's homecoming party.
Greg Monroe scored 24 points, Calderon had 19 points and nine assists against his former team, and the Pistons snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Toronto Raptors 108-98 on Monday night.
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Demba Ba sent Chelsea into the FA Cup semifinals with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Monday, keeping his team on course for a cup double to make amends for a lackluster Premier League campaign.
The quarterfinal replay came to life four minutes into the second half when Ba exquisitely hooked the ball over goalkeeper David De Gea to set up a Wembley Stadium meeting with Manchester City.
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Documents released by Brazilian authorities show that military officials kept track of Pele during the country's dictatorship era.
The files unveiled by the Sao Paulo state government on Monday show officials investigated Pele in the 1970s, keeping record of his activities and probing incidents involving the football star, including alleged attacks to his home in the coastal city of Santos.
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Queens Park Rangers' hopes of avoiding relegation from the Premier League are bleaker after defensive mistakes led to a 3-2 loss against Fulham on Monday.
QPR's headline January signing, Christopher Samba, gifted Dimitar Berbatov two goals inside 22 minutes.
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Barcelona, Real Madrid and Malaga will look to set themselves up for a place in the Champions League semifinals with impressive performances in their quarterfinal first legs this week.
The last time the Spanish had three sides in the last four was in the 1999/2000 season.
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Sanfrecce Hiroshima stunned Japanese football by winning their first J-League title last year but two defeats in two games have plunged them into a fight for survival in the AFC Champions League this week.
Sanfrecce have had a bumpy ride since sealing the Japanese title, finishing fifth at December's Club World Cup and winning the domestic Super Cup, but then getting off to a slow start in this year's J-League, where they are currently fifth.
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Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has said that Iker Casillas will not even be on the bench for the Champions League quarterfinal first-leg against Galatasary on Wednesday.
The Spanish captain has recently returned to full training after breaking a bone in his hand back in January.
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