Brazil and Oceania: a Football connection

🇧🇷 Português

Brazil is the place where football happens; Brazilians call their country “the home of football” – and that could really be true. Five times in history, Brazil has won the most important football tournament in the world, the FIFA World Cup. The same country that produced players such as Pelé, Zico, Ronaldo and Neymar has also served as the scene of historic moments for Oceanian football.

For some reason, Brazil is the place where some Oceanian teams and players go to shine, to make history and show that “football exists in the Pacific”. To commemorate these moments, Oceania Football Center will write a series of articles in the coming weeks that will highlight the link between Oceania and Brazil and show how fate has chosen the South American country as a place for various special moments to remember for football fans in the Pacific.

Seven stories will compose the series “Brazil and Oceania: a football connection”, as follows:

1. The rise of Ronaldo Wilkins;
2. Kurukuru’s debut at World Stage;
3. Tahitian football’s best ever moment;
4. Brazil introduces the world to Solomon Islands;
5. Krishna finds the net: Fiji football at 2016 Olympics;
6. The adventure of Elliot Ragomo in Brazilian professional futsal;
7. U17 National Team makes Solomon Islands proud.

There is another remarkable coincidence between Brazil and Oceania: Oceania Football Center, this media group founded in early 2019, was founded in Brazil and by Brazilians. At present, OFCe also counts on writers from different countries around the world.