Clube Atlético Mineiro

Speaking of Santos, it's an all-Brazil affair in São Paulo.

It is Santos hosting Atlético Mineiro.

And this one finishes... 2-0 to Santos, they would find the victory and take that lead with them out to Minas Gerais next week.

While Cienciano, the Paraguayan side, would host the Uruguayan side, Torque City, a part of the Man City setup in Cienciano.

Second leg this coming week.

Tuesday, Vasco da Gama hosting Santa Fe and then Sao Paulo hosting Boca Juniors.

And then Wednesday, Atlético Mineiro hosting Santos at the Mineirão.

And Thursday, Torque will host Cienciano.

I mean it's clear enough it's just slightly inelegant and that is Independiente de Ravalle versus Flamengo so yeah we are not guaranteed a Brazilian team in the semi-final for one feels like it I mean There's probably going to be at least one, given the balance of power, but it feels like a while since the quarterfinals didn't have at least one Brazilian tie in them.

And in the Copa Sudamericana, I think we are definitely guaranteed a Brazilian team in the semis, because Sampoos versus Atlético Mineiro is one of the quarterfinals.

The first leg of that was played...

Oh, it finished a few minutes ago, in fact, and it finished 2-0 to Santos.

They win the Champions League and then they come back to win the Copa Libertadores.

I'm pretty sure the first person to do that was Ronaldinho in 2013 when he won the Copa Libertadores with Atletico Mineiro.

But when it does happen the other way around, right, or you just win your first Copa Libertadores, these kids and maybe these South American journeymen, yeah, they're playing for the money and for the contract, but they know that Copa Libertadores gives them a level of glory that, nothing else can give you because sure, you can win the Champions League in a foreign country, but you're going to come back to your home city or your home country and win the Libertadores and you're an idol forever.

forever because you came back to the third world country.

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También tienes, eh, también tienes para escoger el Santos - Atlético Mineiro.

No, no doble pantalla porque-- no, Santos - Atlético Mineiro está bueno, es un buen partido, pero...

Pero prefieres ver el Palmeiras.

Prefiero ver al, eh, Palmeiras.

Y el primero lo-- no, solamente veo al de, el de Palmeiras - Liga.

Yo voy a meter doble pantalla.

Ah, mentira, quizás veo Atlético Mineiro - Santos, ya que estoy sufriendo con la Sudamericana.

Falar nisso, o São Paulão vai pegar o Boca.

Vai pegar o Atlético.

Atlético? Qual Atlético?

Atlético Mineiro, agora.

Ah, isso aí não-

Brasileiro

...não tem problema.

Atlético Mineiro não-

That's where a lot of his professional playing career is.

And then, of course, he comes from the Palmeiras Academy, and he spent a year with Atletico Mineiro.

He's got better pedigree than I think people are giving him credit for.

Now, obviously, he still has to do it for us.

And then he took us to the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores a year after that, or two years after that, where we barely lost to a last-minute penalty that we missed.

We could have been Ronaldinho's Atlético Mineiro and gone to the semis.

And then he goes to América.

Yes, it's a big team, but it's still a lot of pressure to win with the Giants, and he won.

Right, Santos, Real Madrid.

Manchester City, Santos, AC Milan, Guangzhou, Evergrande, Atletico Mineiro, Sivispor, Istanbul, Basqueira.

Wait, I'll see them again.

And then Gilles.

give us the punters.

Go on.

Santos, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Santos, AC Milan, Ganjo Evergrande, Atletico Mineiro, Savaspor, Istanbul, Basakera.

Have you got it, Adam? Have you got it, Neil? Have you got it, Dylan? Yeah.

Okay, let's move on and go to Wednesday, August the 12th.

Red Bull Bragantino are beaten at home by the fellow Brazilian side, Atlético Mineiro, thanks to a goal from Tomás Cuello.

And this one finishes one-nil to the Mineiro side, the Mineiro side.

Tigre hosting Torque in Argentina.

They get their goals from Luciano, Jonathan Calleri, and Sabino, while Bolivar would add a goal from Dariana Sprija to give little consolation.

But it is the Tricolor Paulista, the, the tricolor from São Paulo, that advance.

Now, we go to Atlético Mineiro versus Bragantino.

This one finishes two-two in the second leg, but Mine- Atlético Mineiro had already won the first leg.

It's been both.

Uh, when he was at Atlético Mineiro in Brazil, um, there was-- well, he was being called Savio as well.

It's, it's just been a common kind of either/or for [chuckles] I think a lot of the time that he's been playing football.

But Savinho or Savio, either of them are, are, are fine, um, to, to have.