A tale at Morumbi

"The fact is that we supply the players for the entire world and football is a business, "explained Orandi Nino Mura about the spreading of Brazillian footbaler worlwide."Brazil will never run out of talent," he added confidently. "Everybody in Brazil dreams of becoming a footballer. The business is profitable. All the clubs in the Brazilian wanted to get their profit by selling players to Europe's rich club".

Nino was one of the marketing officials at Sao Paulo soccer club, one of the most successful club in Latin America. "One of my responsibilities is also market players involved in the transfer, though not directly," he admitted, smiling. Conversation took place while walking in the hallways under the stands stadium Cicero Pompeu de Toledo. The stadium is better known as Morumbi because it is located in the Morumbi, one of the prosperous city in Sao Paulo, where most rich people of Sao Paulo and diplomats live. 

Morumbi Stadium

When conversation occured, of course, we did not realize that the world is going into a recession. So, understandable that Nino believed that the world will continue to absorb the talents Brazilian football,and he said  that business will continue to operate and profit will be harvested.

The number of Brazilian footballers are looking for food in foreign countries was remarkable. Some sources mentioned that up to five thousand player, from big names playing in first class competition until the names of the unknown at all playing in the uknown competition.Nino didn't know how to play in Indonesia, but it seems quite a lot.

Many of the players who wander are then adopted the nationality of their place to play because of their desire to play in national team (chance in the Brazil national team could be said is closed). Moreover, our lives in the destination country is better than in Basil. In Europe,countries such as Portugal, Germany, Turkey and Croatia, have Brazilian who have been naturalized. Some Asian and African countries are also doing it.

For Sao Paulo income from buying and selling players helps the club's life. Nino reluctant to explain the details. But he gave an example, sell one player to the rich European clubs will be able to live the life of the Sao Paulo soccer academy which contains 200's of players from the ages 10 to 18 years at least one year. We can remember when Denilson moved to Real Betis as the world's most expensive player with a transfer value of around 22 million pounds. 

kaka,one of the ex-Sao Paulo players

"Of course we can not at any time sell good players to rich clubs in Europe there," said Nino. "But we could sell our players to college graduates everywhere, including to your country. Even if not a good price at least covered their education money". 

In accordance with the transfer period in Europe (June to September), by the middle of the year are usually busy times for Sao Paulo.If there's no european club who are interested in their players, so they offer the players to another clubs worldwide.

The same process occurred in January, when the transfer window opened. "I'm not sure I could see if you come in those months," he said to describe the activity that he faced.Unlike last year, this time not too much movement,probably less than half of what happened last year. Transfer movement are also more ranged between existing players in Europe. The world financial crisis really have their impact for the football industry.

And chimera was drifting far back to Brazil, to Sao Paulo, to Morumbi,and  to Nino. Are there he was as busy as previous years? Is there a Sao Paulo will be able to sell the talented players? Is there a financial crisis hit the export of Brazilian players abroad?. Seeing the footbal transfer are down this year,business did not seem as bright as previous years.