South America

The Comeback Kid

13 April 2012 | Rupert Fryer

This weekend, Salvador Cabañas will make his return to football just two years after being shot in the head. Even more remarkably, the bullet remains lodged in his skull.

Copa Libertadores: Balancing the impossible

05 April 2012 | Rupert Fryer

It's extremely hard to maintain your focus on the league when you're competing for South America's premier club competition.

Boisterous Boca, binary no more

27 March 2012 | Rupert Fryer

Boca Juniors are barely recognisable from the team that marched their way to a league title on the back of a series of 1-0 wins.

The night Pelé shook the Bombonera

16 February 2012 | Ed Malyon

In 1963, the great Pelé inspired Santos to a successful defence of their Copa Libertadores title, and they remain the only Brazilian side to have done so on Argentine soil.