Ronnie Biggs wrote: Cruzeiro, brilliant team. To me they are Manchester City of Brazil - never quite there, never get the very best players, but always snapping atthe heels of the top three.
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Hey, Ronnie, sorry, bud, but your comparision is wrong. Manchester City, as far as I know, never won the most important european championship (called these days "The Champions League"). In other hand, Cruzeiro won the american championship (known as "Copa Libertadores da América) not once, but twice! It was in 1976 and 1997. And we won Brazilian Cup four times (1993, 1996, 2000 and 2003), and won the National Championship twice (1966 and 2003). In 1966, we won the allmighty Santos Footbal Club by Pelé, Coutinho e Pepe, by the awesome score of 6x2 (on the first game, what put Brazilian people in shock) and 3x2 on the final game of the match. That was the most memorable victory of Football's history! And in 2003, the superstar Alex (the genius that later was hired by Fenerbahce) was the leader of what is considered the best brazilian team of the last 15 years, the team that won the brazilian championship with the greatest performance (won more than 74% of the disputed points, a record that wasn't beaten yet). So, Cruzeiro is not as cup-collector as Sao Paulo FC, or Santos, or Barcelona, or Manchester United... but is way more important than Manchester City. Sorry if you are a M. City fan, bud...