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Ofutebol.com has been live since 2003. Our goal is to become the number one resource on the web for information on Brazilian football. We greatly apreciate the all of the help from fans who send us their questions and stories. The majority of the day-to-day work has been completed by the team mentioned below. All of this work is done voluntarily (We really do love the game).

If you would like to help us, then send us an email () telling us about yourself and how you think you can help. We would especially like to here from any Brazilian football mad; writers, HTML gurus or programmers.

How can you help?

Updating our news and results sections

Send us match reports from the Brazilian national team or club teams

Did you read Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life and have a reader's story?

Tell us why you support your club team (From Brazil)

Help keep our clubs sections up-to-date

Help keep the Foreign Legion up-to-date

You are about to embark on an Brazilian football adventure and would like to start a blog to tell us about your trip

You would like Alex to review a book about Brazilian football

You have used one of the listed coaching schools and would like to send us a review

You would like to Ask Alex a question about Brazilian football

THE TEAM...

Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos is a world expert on Brazil. He was South America correspondent for the Guardian between 1998 & 2003 and is the author of Futebol: the Brazilian Way of Life, which was the inspiration for this site. He is also the co-writer of Pel�: The Autobiography, and is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the UK and Europe. He presented the BBC documentary Brazil Inside Out, and consulted on the recent BBC series World Cup Stories. A documentary on the Amazon football-beauty tournament, which he authored, is out on the National Geographic Channel. He now lives in London but travels a lot to Brazil.

Check out Alex's blog, O BLOG DO ALEX

Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell is a football-obsessed Interactive Creative Director. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, he has lived in Chicago, USA for the past decade, but it�s Brazilian football that he follows most passionately. With a vast knowledge of the domestic game in Brazil and the national team, Ian takes care of the design, production and development of the site (if you need a website, then he's your man). You can find out more about him at his website; www.newmediaallstars.com.

Mark Lowdon

Mark Lowdon is a sports journalist and consultant, based between North East England and South East Brazil. He was only 6 at the time of Mexico �86, but witnessed enough from Zico and his fellow entertainers to prompt a deep fascination with Brazilian futebol. Mark has written about the Brasileiro and the Sele��o for publications all over the world, and his opinions can be heard on his blog � O Blog do Lowdinho. A regular contributor to Fifa.com & Fifaworldcup.com, he will be in Germany for 6 weeks covering the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the game�s governing body.

Check out Mark's blog, O BLOG DO LOWDINHO

CONTRIBUTORS

Barney Cullum

Barney Cullum is a London-based sports writer who spends the majority of his time co-editing New African Soccer magazine, but who's first love remains the samba football of Brazil. His first scoop in journalism came with an exclusive interview with S�crates for his college newspaper.

Chris Marks

Chris Marks has been a fan of Brazilian football since an early age, his engrossment beginning watching the hot sun beat down on the likes of Zico, S�crates and Falc�o in Mexico �86. An Evertonian by birth, he has keenly followed Flamengo and S�o Paulo for many years. With a big knowledge and a background in writing for football-specific websites, Chris researches and writes about the Brazilian game.

David Tryhorn

David Tryhorn is a sports TV Researcher/Production Assistant, working most recently on Channel Five's world football magazine show 'Golazo!'. His passion for Brazilian football began at the 1986 World Cup and ignited when he first moved to Brazil in 1999. A keen and knowledgeable follower of the domestic game, he rarely misses a Fluminense game when he�s out in Brazil. David also regularly translates articles from Portuguese for fifa.com and fifaworldcup.com. He lives in London, but gets away to northeast and southeast Brazil as much as possible.

Graham Yates

It was the Sele��o�s care-free style of 1982 that inspired Graham Yates� passion for samba football. Falc�o, S�crates and Zico were the household names back then, but �der was his favourite. It prompted him to investigate - and subsequently discover - that Brazil�s class of 1970 was even better, although he remained most fond of Tel�s troops. An ardent follower ever since, Graham is now a statistical expert on Brazilian football.

Robert Reid

Robert Reid has been Futebol-obsessed since seeing Pele�s farewell game as a child. He designs virtual educational technology (www.sunrisevr.com), working with schools around the world. He lives in Chicago with a toddler daughter who performs back-heels and stepovers learned from an incessant GLOBOtv feed.