A dispute over television broadcasting rights saw a match in the Brazilian Campeonato Paranaense on Sunday called off at the last moment.

The game between Atletico Paranaense and Coritiba was due to be broadcast via Facebook and YouTube after dissatisfaction with the amount that broadcaster PRC was willing to pay the clubs for the TV rights.

But referee Paulo Roberto Alves Jr was told to postpone the game just before kickoff after the competition's ruling body Federacao Paranaense de Futebol...

Penarol president Juan Pedro Damiani has said he is asking Diego Forlan to return to the club this season.

The 37-year-old retired Uruguay international returned to his boyhood club for the 2015-16 season, helping Penarol to the Apertura title in the Uruguay first division by scoring eight goals in 31 appearances.

This past June, the 2010 Golden Ball winner for best player at the 2010 World Cup and the two-time Pichichi trophy winner said he would be leaving the club, but has not said where he might...

Brazil have replaced injured goalkeeper Fernando Prass with Weverton Pereira Silva in their squad for the Olympic Games.

Prass, the 38-year-old Palmeiras goalkeeper, was one of the Selecao's three over-23 players along with Neymar and Renato Augusto.

The veteran injured his elbow on Saturday prior to the team's friendly against Japan.

On Monday, coach Rogerio Micale announced that Atletico Paranaense goalkeeper Weverton, 28, would step in for the team, who open their campaign against South Africa...

Sao Paulo's coach Juan Carlos Osorio told ESPN Brasil he will make a decision this weekend about a coaching offer and admitted that his current coaching contract expires this weekend.

Earlier this week, the Colombian coach said he will be deciding his future in the coming days and admitted that conversations over becoming Mexico head coach have taken place.

Osorio fended off questions about the potential Mexico coaching job following Sao Paulo's playoff win over Vasco da Gama, which earned his...

A competition meant to be the precursor to a Brazilian Premier League has been officially formed after a meeting by member clubs in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

The statute for the "Liga Sul-Minas-Rio," a regional tournament consisting of clubs from five states in Brazil's south, was signed by its 13 founding members -- Flamengo and Fluminense of Rio, Internacional and Gremio of Rio Grande do Sul, Atletico-MG and Cruzeiro of Minas Gerais, Coritiba and Atletico-PR of Parana, and Joinville, Chapacoense,...