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In the usual scheme of things, the best young soccer players to emerge in South America -- one of the hotbeds of the game?s talent -- soon find their way to European clubs. It wasn?t always like this. The great Pele spent his whole career in Brazil, apart from his brief swansong in the North American Soccer League. However, the pattern was well established by the 1980s, and the likes of Diego Maradona, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho have all followed this route. With European clubs having far more money and greater stability, and South American (particularly Brazilian) soccer in a continual state of chaos, the players can hardly be blamed; and their old clubs need the money from the transfers. So it came as something of a surprise in December when Argentinean star Carlos Tevez, the South American Player of the Year, made a big-money move from Buenos Aires club Boca Juniors to the Brazilian club Corinthians, of Sao Paulo.

There were a number of good reasons for eyebrows to be raised. It?s very unusual for an Argentinean player to move to Brazil, given the intense rivalry between the two nations. The transfer fee of US $18 million was the highest ever paid by a Brazilian club. The 20-year-old Tevez is possibly the brightest young prospect in the world. He led Boca mls Juniors to the soccer tickets Copa Libertadores (South America?s continental club championship) in 2003, and to the runners-up spot last year. Then he played a starring role, scoring eight goals, as Argentina won the Olympic tournament. Corinthians, who finished in fifth place in the galaxy tickets Brazilian national league last year, hardly seemed like the ideal destination for a player of Tevez?s stature, who would normally have been snapped up by a major European club dangling a lucrative contract. In some ways, it?s refreshing to see someone bucking the trend, playing a small part in helping to keep the domestic South American game well stocked with world-class players.

Tevez claimed that he was leaving Boca because of the incessant intrusion into his private life by fans and the media -- a dubious reason, given the Corinthians fans? track record of harassing and abusing their players. Besides, the background to his transfer raises some suspicions world cup soccer to say the least. A few weeks earlier, a London-based company world cup soccer tickets by the name of Media Sports Investments (MSI) had announced an investment of around US $35 million into Corinthians, with a 10-year commitment, in return for receiving 51 per cent of the club?s profits. The deal was struck after months of negotiations, with the club usa soccer directors concerned about the murky identities of the people behind all this money. MSI?s front man is Kia Joorabchian, an Iranian businessman, who is believed to be representing a consortium of unnamed British and Russian investors.

Rumors persist among the South American media that one of these people is Roman Abramovich -- the Russian oil billionaire who shocked English soccer in the summer of 2003, when he came us soccer from nowhere to buy London club Chelsea, us soccer tickets wiping out their huge debts at a stroke and injecting dizzying amounts of money into the team. Abramovich?s representatives have denied that he is involved with MSI. Suspicious observers though, couldn?t help noticing that his yacht was moored in a Buenos Aires marina, and he reportedly met the Boca Juniors president Mauricio Macri, shortly before all this happened.

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