Twitter works great in Brazil. So great that it gets you fired! Former Real Madrid manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo was sacked by Palmeiras, in São Paulo, Brazil, over what he wrote on Twitter [Portuguese] two days ago. Is this the first time a professional sports coach/manager has been sacked because of what he has written on Twitter? I couldn’t find any other examples, but I could well be wrong here.
Anyway, the story is pretty interesting, especially to those of us who follow football. Luxemburgo, who won the São Paulo State Championship with Palmeiras this past season (and who won with Santos the year before), posted to Twitter that he was dissatisfied with the way one of his players, Keirrison, had handled his apparent negotiation with FC Barcelona, which he is all but certain to join in the next few days. Tweeted Mr. Luxemburgo: “Keirrison didn’t show up to training. He also didn’t give me any explanation. If he isn’t sold [to FC Barcelona] he won’t play for me again.” (Yes, I translated that myself. Thanks, college!)
Luxemburgo was sacked by Palmeiras shortly thereafter, which he also tweeted: “I’m no longer the manager of Palmeiras. I was sacked because of disagreeing with Keirrison’s attitudes. Read about it on my blog: [l]uxemburgo.blog.uol.com.br.”
Perhaps Twitter should have what Gmail has, an “are you sure you want to tweet this?” feature?
In any event: don’t use Twitter to air dirty laundry.
UPDATE As Fernando corrected me, “Cotinthians won the São Paulo State Championship in 2009, Palmeiras won in 2008.” Yes, I feel like a dope, but I’m pretty sure only Fernando would have known that fact. I can’t imagine we’re too big in Brazil.
Cotinthians won the São Paulo State Championship in 2009, Palmeiras won in 2008.
And one question, why did you learn Portuguese in your college? It is just awesome, everyone here wants to speak English, and sometimes I think my native language is useless, because no one really want to learn it :(
You correction has been noted. That’s what you get when you talk about leagues you don’t follow that closely.
Anyhow, I studied Portuguese because I already knew Spanish and my college offered advanced Portuguese classes based on one’s knowledge of Spanish. So it was a pragmatic decision. I also liked the idea of learning a language that not too many people here in the U.S knew. When I was in Portugal a few months ago, most people thought I was Brazilian, because what American bothers to learn Portuguese? I do!
Anyway, Brazil crushed my heart today. We’ll see you in the World Cup next year!
Goddamn it, US. You should have won! I’m one of those few brazilians who doesn’t like soccer very much and feel like we’ve won too many cups. If we had lost today, it would be a huge pull back to the whole country. We would feel more down-to-earth and less arrogant.
Now it’s like every other day, we’re as high as a kite in 4th of july, drinking and dancing on the streets like there’s no tomorrow.
Damn it, north-americans. Do it right on the next world cup. Buy a referee or something.
I was freaking afraid yesterday!
NO WAY!
We cannot lose to USA!
Thank god everything got back to normality and we won! =D
And yes!
You are big among brazilian geeks =D
You guys are big in Brazil, but only with techheads =D
(besides, most of geeks don’t follow soccer leagues closely here)
Hello Nicholas! Congratulations for your Portuguese skills, this is really apreciated by us.
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Demi Moore e Ashton Kutcher is having funny truble with the Brazilian expression “Chupa” , after the Confederation Cup, Ashton was happy (during the first half) about the game, but at soccer we have 90 minutes, so he figured out who is the best in this field. We :)
And, at his twitter he got a couple msn about “chupa”.
From Montreal Canada. A Brazilian fan at this site.
Saulo Faria
hey dude
just for u to know you are big here in brazil! second: brazilians don’t ignore a despicable mistake! lol
our nation monitor the web! dont we ashton kutcher??
@CHUPA
hey, i read you guys!
and im ashamed for this guy /\