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The visitors rarely threatened PSV’s goal, and to make matters worse, they were forced into substituting their key defender Ousmane Diomande off through injury with over an hour left to play There would be no further punishment for Sporting, but the second half started just like the first, with PSV nearly doubling their advantage, as great chances for Ismael Saibari and Guus Til went narrowly wide of the post within five minutes of the restart PSV - Sporting match statsOpta by StatsPerformThe hosts' high press continued to cause the Sporting defence issues, somehow not extending the lead when they won the ball back high up the pitch resulting in Luuk de Jong putting the ball just wide of the post after he set himself up nicely with a cute flick It took the visitors the best part of 70 minutes to create their best chance of the match when Hidemasa Morita was put through on goal by Daniel Braganca but the midfielder somehow got his legs muddled up before he could get his shot away But the worst miss of all came from PSV shortly before the final whistle, when the usually reliable Johan Bakayoko pounced on a poor backpass to round the keeper and criminally put the ball wide of an empty net The home side paid dearly, conceding just minutes later when Maximiliano Araujo’s deflected cross was turned in by Bragança in front of a jubilant set of away fans neither side could find the all-important breakthrough and settled for a draw that extended Sporting’s unbeaten run to the season to nine games Flashscore Man of the Match: Daniel Braganca (Sporting CP)  Check out the match stats with Flashscore Sporting Clube de Portugal maintained their unbeaten start in the Champions League after a hard fought 1-1 draw against PSV in Eindhoven The Dutch champions took the lead in the 15th minute when Jerdy Schouten stole the ball from Geny Catamo and beat Franco Israel from distance Eduardo Quaresma replaced an injured Ousmane Diomande in the first half and slipped over when presented with a golden chance to equalise in the 71st minute Johan Bakayoko missed an open net in the closing stages and paid the price Maxi Araújo’s deflected cross falling to Daniel Bragança who volleyed past Walter Benítez from close range The early signs were worrying for Sporting with Geny Catamo looking lost and Ryan Flamingo winning his individual battle with Viktor Gyökeres A loose pass from Gonçalo Inácio resulted in Guus Til’s shot being saved by Franco Israel PSV stayed on the front foot and took the lead in the 15th minute Catamo was too slow to react and receive Zeno Debast’s pass Jerdy Schouten stealing the ball and beating Israel from long range Johan Bakayoko fired wide before a poor touch from Debast gave the Dutch champions another opportunity Ousmane Diomande got back to block Malik Tillman’s effort the central defender rolling his ankle in the process and replaced by Eduardo Quaresma Rúben Amorim’s side had a decent end to the first half Gyökeres’ shot blocked by Olivier Boscagli and Inácio heading a corner wide in added time Sporting got off to a terrible start in the second half when Quaresma’s loose pass was pounced on in the opening seconds provided a chance for Til and headed Tillman’s cross straight at Israel Rúben Amorim brought on Daniel Bragança for Catamo in the 52nd minute but the chances kept coming for the home side as Luuk de Jong went close to scoring a spectacular solo goal The veteran striker then showed his importance by getting back into his own box to stop Trincão Peter Bosz made two changes in the 65th minute when Mauro Júnior and Saibari made way for Rick Karsdorp and Noa Lang Kardsorp’s first involvement was delivering a cross to Til Sporting stayed in the contest and had a fantastic chance to equalise in the 71st minute continued his run and got the ball back from Morita the centre-back somehow slipping over with Walter Benítez to beat The game opened up which wouldn’t have pleased Bosz Lang’s header saved by Israel and Geovany Quenda curling a low effort wide Amorim made two more substitutions in the 80th minute when Maximiliano Araújo and Conrad Harder replaced Nuno Santos and Trincão PSV took advantage of the open space on offer with Bakayoko the player to profit The winger went close before another shot was comfortably collected by Israel His best chance was yet to come and should have been the nail in Sporting’s coffin Bakayoko intercepted a horror pass from Quaresma Gyökeres turned provider with a great through ball to Harder the young Dane going through on goal but unable to connect cleanly Sporting’s persistence paid off in the 84th minute when they drew level Araújo’s deflected cross falling into the path of Bragança who volleyed past Benítez from close range Quaresma did well to get back and block a dangerous attempt by Lang Harder testing Benítez in the final minute of the game with the goalkeeper up to the task Rúben Amorim started the match without Jeremiah St Losing Ousmane Diomande to injury in the 32nd minute was another blow Geny Catamo has operating primarily as a wing-back this season the youngster starting on the left wing due to the absences of Pote and Edwards He looked completely lost and out of his depth in the first half before being replaced shortly after the break Few would have heard of Ryan Flamingo outside the Netherlands but anyone who watched the game would have been extremely impressed The 21-year-old defender completely owned Viktor Gyökeres who hardly had a sniff in front of goal but Peter Bosz had the upper hand for most of the match with his three man midfield taking Morten Hjulmand and Hidemasa Morita out of the contest Geovany Quenda performed admirably in a difficult game the 17-year-old gaining more invaluable experience after being thrown into the first team at the deep end.  PSV scored 111 goals as they cruised to the Eredivisie title last season and are on target to eclipse that tally this campaign The Dutch champions won almost every individual duel were the better team and Amorim will be more than happy to return to Portugal with a point The Lions host Casa Pia on Saturday in what is likely to be another routine home win in the Primeira Liga the international break coming at a great time for Sporting who will hope to have Diomande Pote and Marcus Edwards back on the field for the Taça de Portugal clash at Portimonense By Matthew Marshall Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Geoffrey Moncada (AC Milan via Getty Images) According to La Gazzetta dello Sport the arrival of Sergio Conceição as Milan's coach could open up new and interesting transfer market scenarios for the Rossoneri in January's transfer market window thanks to the collaboration with the new coach's agent it will be important to understand if Conceição can reintegrate Fikayo Tomori into the starting lineup and recover the summer signing Strahinja Pavlović a new reinforcement in defense will be needed Conceição's Milan could target António Silva In attack, there will be a need 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NGLVTI92L14B936U | Responsible and editorial director: Vito Angelè Credits by Parrotto Web Solution Web Agency Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1234178 This article presents some of the reflections produced by the Possible Gardens research which explores the world of gardens where living beings interact directly which are still very present in Brazilian cities It uses comparative case studies of multiple exemplar cases throughout the Arrudas River territory in the city of Belo Horizonte The aim is to present the contributions of the Possible Gardens this expanded category of garden understood as cosmopolitical worlds to the thinking of contemporary cities based on ecological practices derived from urban daily life it opens an understanding of the potential of gardens as a culturally relevant element as an example and catalyst for environmental policies this research has been exploring the world of gardens and their contributions to the discussion on contemporary cities It aims to understand this expanded garden category and its contribution to ecological studies by widening the boundaries hitherto found in garden studies it enables understanding the potential of gardens as a relevant cultural element and as a possible catalyst for environmental policies arising from the daily life of cities through the recognition of cosmopolitical worlds Possible Gardens encompass nonhierarchical domestic spaces The gardens chosen for the research are those with which people engage personally in some way and build relationships with nonhumans not necessarily supported by public policies handling and traditional uses of floral elements and ecological relationships is a means of understanding the affection between many beings and also between them and their site For the proposed concept of Possible Gardens are recognized as agents of the territories they build The term “nonhuman” is used by many authors referring to these agents and distinguishing them from human agents to seek their real understanding starting from two distinct perspectives: the friendly nature composed by subjects and an objectifiable which is built by affection and familiarity that the pursuit for an inclusive way of living in the spatialized world that unites all beings in the city and its gardens took place The working hypothesis focused on understanding how the Possible Gardens contribute to thinking of the city in an integrated way because they are elements of connection They are multispecies collectives based on memory and confluences and also build other worlds The research methodology was understanding the garden historically the initial proposition of the term Possible Gardens the realization of a comparative case study of multiple cases and the analysis of the data focusing on understanding the meaning of Possible Gardens and their contribution to cosmopolitics This will also be the structure of this work as spaces found in the daily life of cities will be presented in terms of cosmopolitical confluences and multispecific relationships as a way of foreseeing other “possibles,” both the resistant ones and those that are examples to imagine other worlds The first step of the research consisted of understanding the idea of gardens in the history of official landscaping and on the proposition of the term “Possible Gardens” as a broader garden category and as a definition yet to be explored in the framework of landscape studies Subsequently, a comparative case study was performed in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. As for the dimension of the studied space, it was conducted on multiple exemplar gardens found near the Arrudas River and its tributaries of the river basin. The Arrudas River is Belo Horizonte’s most important watercourse, from which the occupation of the city was structured. To some extent, it was even ignored by Aarão Reis’ Plan for Belo Horizonte1 The Possible Gardens research was developed at three spots of the river basin: upstream, in the Barreiro neighborhood; in the Centro (downtown) and Lagoinha neighborhoods; and downstream, in the São Geraldo neighborhood (Figure 1) These specific areas were chosen because they contain important natural elements for the ecosystem of cities exploratory research studies of the territory were developed then questions were formulated for the interviews and some approaching procedures were established 900 quantitative interviews were applied throughout the studied territory as well as ethnographic nature interviews based both on participant observation and on a thorough photographic survey of each of the studied spaces 65 were conducted in the São Geraldo neighborhood Three other interviews were related to gardens built by homeless people in public areas The last step consisted of analyzing the data and presenting the results focusing on understanding gardens and their contribution to the discussion of possible worlds and their cosmopolitics This methodology was applied for the whole research the detailed methodology and results of the São Geraldo neighborhood are presented The research starts with a discussion on the notion of “possible.” “Possible” is connected to the characteristic of generativity, of creativity already latent in the territory. The “possible” is equipped with qualities or abstract strengths that may become real or not but with big chances of doing so. It is crucial to understand, based on the study by Stengers (2002) that capitalism weakens us as it kills the “possible” and the politics when it hinders our thoughts with a profusion of premade desires Searching and reaffirming the “possible” in the territory is a political act of resistance The “possible” is every immanence of possibility the strength is the collective capacity of transforming possibilities in actuality The power is the selection and imposition of a possibility and the simultaneous exclusion of many others the power is a visibility and invisibility regime and it invents and concatenates what should be seen and what should become invisible is the key for recognizing and discovering the territory acknowledging and inventing forms of coexistence in our urban world Despite the expansive form with which urbanization domesticates and colonizes other non-modern worlds there will always be another “possible” within other non-modern cosmopolitics The Possible Gardens is proposed as a way of exposing some of these other “possibles” seen as cosmopolitical worlds multispecies artifacts built in reciprocity by nonhumans and humans The use of the term gardens becomes important as they are spaces for the building of meaning. Baruete (2016), in his book Jardinosofia, argues that gardens are not only a material construction but also a construction of metaphor. For Mongin (2013) Building gardens also implies in building places for living together gardens are exemplary for thinking about the macrocosm of contemporary cities in the Anthropocene the idea of the Possible Garden as an analytical category proposes a rupture with traditionally discussed and consolidated concepts by the historiography related to this subject as it considers the agency of other beings including the bonds among beings and among these beings and their places despite canonical beauty esthetic standards bringing to the debate the concrete social agencies of everyday life evidencing previously invisible narratives The singularity of the author’s proposal is to break with the enlightenment heritage by requesting a practice of continuously questioning certainties and the usual ways of relating to others This proposal only makes sense in concrete situations Cosmopolitics presents itself as a great challenge: to accept a world with many worlds within The Possible Gardens are one of those worlds capable of bringing to the discussion the construction of everyday space concreteness in the cosmopolitics of territorialized relational worlds Possible are territories of “topobiorelational” symbiosis found in cities with the strength to recreate them while being or becoming real the aim here is to criticize hegemonic planning as a regime of visibility and prescriptions it is criticism to the anthropocentric form of power a diversity of “possibles” is invisibilized interspecific mutualism beyond competition the working hypothesis is to understand the Possible Gardens as cosmopolitical worlds that contribute to thinking of the city in an integrated way as gardens are elements of connection of different living beings with the concrete possibility of extending subjectivity and forms of otherness to other beings rather than only to humans The specific goals are understanding the gardens with which people engage personally as culturally meaningful and environmentally more enriching; surveying the public and private gardens in floodplain areas of the Arrudas River; analyzing the space provided by them; understanding the relationship between humans and nonhumans undertaken in exemplary cases; systematizing the ways with which they unravel territoriality processes; identifying spatial memories and ways of resistant living; and identifying the garden’s contribution to cities as an inseparable part of urban life The systematic articulation between urban and environmental spheres is recent in Brazil there was still a lack of intimate articulation between urban space and environmental space in the Brazilian law and in the notion of urban such articulation occurred and still occurs as a practice in gardens producing social–spatial arrangements It is estimated that the origin of gardens dates back to 4000 BCE in the ancient Mesopotamian and Persian regions Techniques developed for the progression of agriculture also supported garden cultivation In a classic conception, the garden is considered the representation of a world. Historically, we can highlight some of these representations: the garden as a religious microcosm, as a representation of power, and more recently, the private garden as an individual projection of upward mobility (MONGIN, 2013). For the research, this understanding of gardens as a microcosm is crucial. So, to which cosmoperceptions3 do they refer us to today What is their cosmopolitical strength in the production of contemporary cities In gardens which had a religious or cosmic dimension, gardening practices reflected myths, starting with the creation myth of the Western modern Judeo–Christian civilization, the Garden of Eden. In this sense, “they are originally the paradise where men and women live without sin or desire, as depicted in The Book of Genesis” (MONGIN, 2013 They are planted as part of the mythical religious world purifying nature and creating metaphor spaces the gardens also hold their opposites: sin and agency of other beings outside the human domain The wild and the indomitable are associated with evil Though the strength and power processes project a cosmology other “possibles,” however In Caliban and the Witch, Federici (2017) describes feudalism and its transition to capitalism as a period of struggle as people noticed being drifted apart from the land and their common lives She places the witch hunt as the big event responsible for annihilating the participation and resistance of women who built their autonomy from the multispecies relationship operated by their profound knowledge of plants the sedimentation process of the ideas of an objective nature and of the human detachment from other creatures developed and deepened with the epistemological backing of Christianism It is also possible to relate this colonization of nonhuman elements to the invention of an objectified nature at the service of men the garden becomes private and is conceived as a projection of the house and the individual Examples include the aristocratic garden of the 19th century More than a macrocosm with vast ascendance the garden also transforms itself into its own projection in fragmented microcosms The term landscaping is much more recent than the term garden It comes from the work of “landscape improvers,” developers of the English gardens called so for working the landscape in such a way that every creation seemed natural Their main influence was the oriental gardens and they were inspired by landscape paintings of this period The English garden emerges as a returning of a bucolic uncommon in cities between the 13th and 19th centuries and also from the belief in urban greening as a cure for all ills of the cities The domestic garden and the worker garden are those that succeed private gardens designed by landscapers and remain oftentimes as a repository of memories. They also remain as a place of cultivation for subsistence, feeding, and medicinal purposes. In contrast, they also carry upward mobility symbols such as the thoroughly trimmed gardens and perfectly mowed lawns, common for social classes with greater economic power in the beginning of the 20th century (MONGIN, 2013) In Brazilian history and in the formation of its cities it is necessary to understand what the garden means for indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures in addition to the inherited Christian tradition of Portuguese culture The existence of several ways of engaging for humans and nonhumans presumes a detailed analysis of the relations between these several societies and other living creatures and with their space articulated with the urban industrial society not only in historical development but also in current Brazilian cities It would be a garden where vegetal elements This space is a result of an adjustment to dense urban territories what they call “garden” becomes part of rituals as a consequence of the absence of the natural element it is still a key element to understand the garden as a possibility of recreating a world derivative of deforestation The garden becomes a means through which culture and religious worship survive in cities According to Levis et al. (2017), long before Europeans disembarked in the Americas, the indigenous people had changed the landscape over the course of thousands of years, and those effects define the current characteristics of the forest. Levis also stated that the plants that could be useful were cultivated in gardens through an almost intuitive selection process. Krenak (2019) also claimed the Atlantic Rainforest as a big garden composed by the interaction of natives with plants and animals in the territory for almost 2,000 years the garden was one of the ways in which Brazilian indigenous people arranged the original forest in a scale of creation and recreation of their world their knowledge of and familiarity with native species was crucial for agriculture and shaping the cities and Brazilian gardens penetration into the territory was slow because the Portuguese techniques became useless the Portuguese needed to ally with the natives exploring their knowledge of fauna and flora The indigenous technique derived from a symbiosis between all beings as well as the relevance in the symbiotic field of myths within the multispecies relations which still survive in the contemporary city which only legitimizes European-inspired gardens as genuine reveals the attempt to build a modern vision of Brazil able of being among the capitalist countries and a part of the coloniality that only validates the European imaginary Macedo (1999) considered the existence of three great lines in Brazilian landscape architecture in which gardens are incorporated: the eclectic, modern, and contemporary. As a critique to this approach, Magalhães (2014) proposed the inclusion of the Brazilian colonial garden as a relevant object of analysis even if they do not fit into landscape architecture completely the typical Brazilian colonial garden was a mix of a yard It was in such colonial gardens that indigenous knowledge about flora and fauna also merged The familiarization with plants promoted by natives and incorporated in convent and domestic gardens brought Brazilian native elements to these spaces ritualistic plants were also cultivated by slaved women and house came with the modernization of cities it did not overrule the spaces and the perception of gardens completely Possible Gardens are a memory of those gardens that existed in colonial times and still exist nowadays all over Brazil They break away from the ordination and correspond to the majority of Brazilian gardens In the search for other worlds and their cosmopolitical potencies—Possible Gardens built historically in the memory in the gaps of hegemonic planning—the methodological path evolved from water territories The proposal was to develop the study in stages utilizing proprietary methodologies A progressive approach to the issue was undertaken through a case study whose objects are the Possible Gardens defined previously the Arrudas River is Belo Horizonte’s most important watercourse from which the occupation of the city was structured The result of overlapping the characteristics of the natural site the valley floors with sanitary avenues or the crests and watershed divides the area of study is located along this river at the valley floors and the nearest hillsides in points with urban occupation characteristic of residential neighborhoods in Belo Horizonte These are precisely the characteristics of the São Geraldo neighborhood whose case is presented here: a consolidated with a typical occupation found in Brazilian peripheries with the prevalence of residential constructions the central dynamics of urban expansion and reinvention of the contemporary social space The possible worlds articulated by the forms of urban–rural social–spatial organization resistance generating important urban actors and different ways of fighting centered in reproduction and in the quality of life and environment will be searched for in this place where in addition to gardens cultivated inside the lots exploratory research studies of the territory were implemented through informal conversations and the definition of territorial demarcation Four visits for exploratory interviews were conducted asking a simple question: do you cultivate a garden or do you know someone who does The initial takings occurred with people sitting in public gardens and with those who lived in houses where it was possible to see the existence of gardens from the street Prior knowledge of public gardens cultivated by dwellers and the horizontal residential character of the neighborhood were essential for choosing the territory The territorial cutout was predefined from the recognition of the hillside and morphological units of the river basin chosen based on the importance of the half-hillside as the definer of spatial relations Google Maps was used to discover gardens that were not visible from the street In a second moment, questionnaires were created for the interviews; a few approaching procedures were defined, including three encounters with gardeners5, which was called “Coffee with Plants" (Figure 2); and the demarcation of the territory was performed with graphic signs on the site (Figure 3) the gardeners wrote their stories on thematic cards with pictures about the following: house Development of “coffee with plants” Graphic signs on the territory: plaque with the history of the banana tree quantitative and ethnographic interviews were applied based both on participant observation and on a thorough photographic survey of each of the studied spaces The São Geraldo neighborhood sample for ethnographic interviews was proportional and stratified by relief units Specifically in the São Geraldo territory These interviews surveyed the location in relation to the hydrographic basin; place (referring to constructive typology and use of the space where the garden is located); size; mobility; permeability; people’s access (public and/or private); and the place they occupy and their visibility The worlds of Possible Gardens will be presented in this article along with their potential as catalysts for environmental policies arising from the daily life of cities in light of these ordinary spaces The contributions of gardens will be presented in terms of cosmopolitical confluences and multispecific relationships as a way of foreseeing other “possibles,” both the resistant ones and the ones that are examples to imagine other worlds The data from the 873 analyzed areas from the São Geraldo neighborhood are detailed herein7. Of these areas, 50.74% have a garden (Figure 4) of the researched territory were collected in the field and compiled using virtual maps such as Google My Maps The use and occupation of the majority of the studied spaces containing gardens is residential there are people who look after public gardens showed that the gardens found represent 30.02% of the permeable surface area guarantees a permeability rate above the minimum required by law (20% for most places) The floodplain territory and immediate surroundings of the Souza Aguiar Street are still sufficiently permeable This permeability is especially secured by the residual area that was turned into a common garden 53.84% have gardens that represent a permeability of 34.44% The residual area alone represents 26% of the entire permeable surface area The concave ravine territory is also fairly permeable The percentage of permeable surface areas in the ravine is 36.78% There is a spring and an area with significant preserved native vegetation next to a banana plantation an informal occupation has been advancing over the spring This advance is a subject of negotiation between the family that cultivates bananas and the residents of Beco da Grota (ravine alley) located on the thalweg of the São Geraldo stream has a significantly lower permeability rate: 49% have a garden The permeable area of such gardens is 18.63% The watercourse is completely disregarded in the urban planning legislation the permeability is the lowest observed: 48.31% have a garden The permeability ensured by these gardens is significantly lower than the rate imposed by law representing 15.64% of the studied territory In the surroundings of the Silva Alvarenga Street The gardens are located mainly at the entrance to the lots, 315 gardens, and second, at the yards or backyards, 280 areas. However, in most private lots, a garden is present in several spaces. The existence of public and common gardens on the street, though scarce, brings the garden into the city more evidently. Some houses with visually permeable fencing also play this role (Figure 5) Garden at a lot entrance with permeable fencing All the following results were compiled from 65 ethnographic interviews The average income of the head of the household is under five minimum salaries (IBGE The average level of education is incomplete high school The perception of water at some level and the recognition of this agent are present in 69.23% of the interviews This perception varies according to the territory in which the interview is carried out the thalweg of the São Geraldo Stream and the Souza Aguiar street are territories where the perception of the water and natural cycles linked to them was more frequent and its correlation with the studied gardens is more direct The hydrological cycles were mentioned in 75% of interviews at the floodplain They were mentioned by 91.66% of people at the ravine seven of them only positively and four of them both positively and negatively There was no solely negative mention of the water On the concave surface of the covered thalweg of the São Geraldo Stream the perception of the water appeared in 100% of interviews; however these questions were answered only in 40% of interviews The agency of water is less intense in convex territories and The women are the ones who take care of plants Young people represent a small portion of gardeners One of the most common arguments is the abundant time of the elderly and the company that these plants represent to them Of the gardeners of the São Geraldo neighborhood 61.6% were born in Belo Horizonte; 35.3% were born in the countryside of the state and only a small fraction of the people are from out of state The average age of the cataloged gardens is 27 years; therefore Some of them are as old as the neighborhood Collaborative care happens with 38.46% of respondents there is an alternation between individual and collaborative care taking care of gardens builds exchange and sharing networks in the neighborhood becoming a common action for various people in terms of the transactions they provide The cultivated public spaces are created collectively; however there is always a designated person who starts it and calls others on the task Public spaces represent 9.3% of the studied gardens Private spaces correspond to the majority of spaces but their property is not well defined or is private The presence of ornamental plants in almost all gardens reaffirms pleasure as the main motivation The majority of gardens have ornamental plants other plants are also cultivated: edible in 80% Plants of power are those which have some connection to a mystic religious world the limits with ornamental and plants of power are not very precise as the same species occupies both definitions in different interviews The names included were those defined in the interviews it is possible to see the presence of lemon grass and rosemary and the use of these herbs of indigenous Trees are the most mentioned agents from public gardens The most common domestic animals are cats and dogs These pets often walk freely on the streets Animals created for human consumption and transportation also roam freely around the neighborhood The variety of animals cited as visitors is numerous (Figure 7) Birds and insects are the main ones in addition to the pets Birds are seen as welcomed agents as they participate in plant dispersal and this action is understood as a big facilitator for gardens Descriptions such as “buddies,” “bothers,” “helpers,” and “beloved” are frequent Another emphasized point is the annunciation of water cycles by birds They are frequently called “pests,” “invaders,” “infestation,” and also Butterflies are cited for their colors and as biological markers Insects are also appreciated for their participation in the food chain not only for the way they behave but also for their role in honey production and pollination many species were mentioned as partners in combating dengue fever and also as food for marmosets Only two people showed concern about their bites Some wild mammals are found in the gardens and contradictions were also evident in the interviews The presence of exotic plants is a problem for native species as they have an advantage in the ecological competition are not seen as invaders and are already incorporated The river is seen as not only the “flood villain” but also as a “path” and “life force” and the water as “a serious problem” and “a necessity and a blessing.” Some of the interviewed are able to connect the flooding to the paving to the type of urbanization and modernization that fail to take people into account but many consider the channeling of watercourses as positive The biggest factor in suppressing gardens in the houses is the need to build shacks for their married children These spaces later represent an extra income for the family The construction of garages is also mentioned The lack of space for planting is solved by some residents with the use of vases Vases are also important for their mobility In public gardens, the absence of the municipality is a highly questioned issue. They believe that common gardens are more interesting when made by local people (Figure 8) Common gardens built and maintained by neighbors a few other names were given to what the research calls “garden.” They are house Many unregistered springs were found in the lots native and cultivated species coexist in the three lots of the house The lots have a spatial gradation that starts with an ornamental garden cultivated near the house The other spring is located at the ravine and has the same gradation the native vegetation is better preserved at the ravine with the presence of queen palm Three other lots had more anthropized springs Some human behaviors are attributed to plants and animals They were defined as protectors in five interviews and as soldiers in one of them That happened where there were plants of power People also said in the interviews that they have the habit of talking to the plants and that “they listen and respond” to this dialog and “become beautiful” as a relational response The words “friends” and “friendship” appear in 22 interviews “Companion” appeared in 13 “Family” appeared four times “Love” is also used in seven interviews and “darlings” in two of them From the interviews’ collected data cosmopolitical worlds of gardens were revealed They are discussed here from agents and agencies identified at the gardens and its participation in the conformation of gardens varies according to its location The positive aspects of water are closely related to memories the existence of springs within the city—even near central areas—and its contribution to plant growth “The Arrudas River was basically clean.” “I used to see fish while crossing the wooden bridge.” “The rain does the best irrigation Chlorine-free water.” “Have you seen the water that sprouts inside here [the ravine]?" The interaction between gardens and water cycle is also especially perceived on concave surfaces and valley floors The negative aspects are related to flooding and river pollution River channeling is seen as a positive factor by the majority of respondents who claim “it reduces flooding” and “controls bad smell.” However it is also considered as a way of “moving the problem away” and of being good “only for the asphalt.” The changes promoted by urbanization are mentioned with wariness and the devastation of streamside vegetation is a cause for regret Urbanization and the river’s covering are questioned which shows some understanding on drainage policies a contradiction is present between its perception and management and its influence on territory and climate Rainfalls and the river are seen as “a blessing for the plants and animals” and as “a villain for cities” since “the rain brings everything down,” and “when the river overflows It takes everything with it.” It is also noticeable that the experience with natural cycles and their changes constitute a relevant element for the organization of gardens and life Expressions such as “nowadays everything has changed,” “back in the day it was not like that” and “it has been raining less it is harder for the garden to remain pretty since water is so expensive” are mentioned in the surveys They reveal the several material and symbolic losses caused mainly by urbanization which instigated the collapse of relationships that contributed to the existence of gardens and of a way of living The relief units (CARVALHO, 2001) help in explaining surface runoffs and their effects on the territory The perception of this process confirms that where the river is physically present and its agency is clear This happens especially when it comes to springs and where there is relevance of gardens as a memory of water and the preservation and use of these springs is incorporated into the territories of planting and care In the thalweg of the São Geraldo Stream where the water body is enclosed and its presence is ignored by the law gardens are important elements in the characteristics of occupation but they have less influence on soil permeability and the perception of the hydrological cycles is lower gardens were conformed through female care Women still select and maintain plant species and have knowledge about traditional medicine and the religious and mythical developments involved in this care Women are frequently attributed with “good hands” because the earth “where they touch everything grows.” Being a woman in the garden has “many of these advantages a woman is like a river that changes every month,” facilitating communication “with these cycle things” since they keep in their bodies the same “more natural” possibilities that move certain energies The feminine, linked to social skepticism given the construction of the role of women in modern capitalism (FEDERICI, 2017) verticalizes its attributes in the domestic space related to the land and also to the mythical religious universe The memory of a multispecific relationship among women and animals remains in the researched gardens This is assured by the cultivation of ornamental plants and plants associated with folk medicine; their relevant role in establishing relations between humans and nonhumans and part of the family; the concerns with their human and also nonhuman children; and the subtle relationships with the sacred and with themselves women use exactly these characteristics to place themselves also in the world of public coexistence bringing along with the spaces they cultivate their experience of care and affection There is no monopoly of a gender over the experience and values associated with it men stand out for the association of their act with a cosmopolitical action of building common places and they expand their domestic gardening agency to the relational coexistence within the neighborhood This realization opens important perspectives for understanding the feminine role in the organized ecological movement and the cosmopolitics of Possible Gardens The dissolution of boundaries between the competitive world and the world of coexistence in gardens may indicate that women occupy a privileged position in the ecological fight the involvement of women and feminist struggles in the ecological fight also relates to a political experience that transcends the domestic exclusivity and behaviors attributed to women It is the result of the process of conquering other spaces and relevance in the public world An initial hypothesis that gardeners had provincial origins is refuted in the interviews This indicates an incomplete process of modernization in the creation of the capital of Minas Gerais The city of Belo Horizonte has its own rural origins Despite the modernization project undertaken the attempt of redesigning spaces and behaviors was not enough to completely erase this rural memory This was an important component in that process and is still alive in the world of Possible Gardens This is due to embodiment as a continuity that overcomes the brevity of individuals This highlights the spatial dimension to the detriment of the temporal one and the reconstructive possibility of memory and resignificance of something remembered memory is a relevant agent in the studied territory and building and rebuilding modalities of multispecific relationships the relations they articulate take place within homes and routines of families they articulate a strong network of exchange and of seedling and seed donation which narrows the bonds within the neighborhood expanding its configuration from the private to the common The motivation for gardening is more related to pleasure and with an exchange based more on affections and affinities than on economics four people mentioned that planting gardens in public areas was a way to avoid littering Five gardeners take care of their gardens in memory of a relative Two others have mainly a religious motivation This understanding opens the possibility of questioning concepts such as sustainability and sustainable development and the amplitude of these concepts in cities Other creatures present themselves as agents and not as mere resources Gardens and their edible and medicinal plants are elements that support a nutrition based on the natural cycles and not on consumption. The pleasure of growing one’s own vegetables, fruits, and teas is constant. It is a knowledge learned from relatives (Figure 9) such as those from Henrique de Xangô and Cigano the imbrication of gardens as a form of survival of the Afro-Brazilian culture in the urban environment is constructed through the plants of power Gardens of the Marias known as neighborhood doctors Both power and medicinal plants are associated with generations of knowledge about the uses of these plants and the recipes for a multitude of ailments They hold knowledge attributed to the memory of multispecific affections In these mythical–religious relations the plant cultivates the humans and heals their ills and amplifies their power in an energetic symbiosis There is familiarity and the construction of a partnership in a reciprocal acceptance Sacred plants of Afro-Brazilian and Catholic religions catalyze strength forming a sociability network that involves common precautions These are subtle actions that signify affinities amalgamating the matter of things to the supernatural through sensitivity and through the imaginary cultivated in these Possible Gardens the shadow is relevant in the correlation of forces that shape gardens Flowers are commonly associated with the Virgin Mary and with catholic religiosity; they are more frequently present in domestic gardens but also in public ones Medicinal plants and plants of power bring respectability worship spaces were found in two gardens: a chapel of the Virgin Mary surrounded by flowers and an image of Oshun near the ravine spring The plants are friends; they are sacred and embody the presence of God The plants “do not have faces, members or, in general, any recognizable feature that resemble animals, which makes them nearly invisible” (MANCUSO, 2019 Such invisibility is real in a world where utility and fast production rule life and plants of power are highly mentioned in the interviews The species are arranged without a clear hierarchy between them evoking the wisdom of “grandparents’ gardens.” The sociability among species is an element mentioned by some gardeners These blended plantings increase the ecological relations and the supply for pollinators preventing the proliferation of pests and promoting the communication among them The memory of plants must be seen only for what it is—the capacity to retain data about the past to guide actions in the future which is the ability to send signals to each other nothing is more natural than placing them close together in gardens Vegetal specimens organize themselves as a collective intelligence with individual modules that form the whole humans collaborate with this interaction by creating proximities and combinations of species intuitively using culturally incorporated knowledge If urbanization and the use of gardens as a modernization strategy undertaken in Belo Horizonte promote a strongly regulated monocultural garden, the gardens researched are biodiverse (Figure 10). The Possible Gardens’ spatial cosmopolitics is one of diversity. In that sense, Shiva (2003) questioned the unilateral thinking installed in the world referred to as the process of monoculture of the mind this process becomes space for instance in isolated scenic gardens Monoculture starts in the mind to only reach the soil afterward When a group or system self-proclaims its superiority and creates mechanisms to expand its ways of thinking and being superior to other societies local systems of knowledge suffer a series of violence such as being considered insignificant and having their way of existence made impossible The presence of territories with many gardens planted in local systems and a mixture of species is a resilient repository of biodiversity in the middle of the city They are part of the cosmopolitical fight for biodiversity and life the reciprocal management of species is the way in which different agents interact instead of the violent and exclusive selection of monoculture In a provocation, Mancuso (2019) points to the contemporary democratic system as a political mechanism that reflects the vanity of few individuals who long for power and erase other experiences at this stage a concept very close to coloniality could be more efficient to human beings and other animals with the construction of multispecific social pacts A more sustainable world is not only one where there are more plants but a world that thinks like a plant it is possible to consider a more active participation of plants on the analyzed network The existing animals are perceived as companions The presence of wild animals is understood as a consequence of deforestation and urban expansion Most gardeners do not scare these animals away Far from being an isolated perception in gardens which are consequences of the urbanization This perception in gardens goes beyond the evidence exclusively studied by climate science at the Anthropocene represents a noticeable frequently narrated shift in the day-to-day whether it is by tradition or by a smaller insertion in modern techniques of planting the ecological management techniques prevail The use of some chemical defender was mentioned in only four interviews The cultural handling of water and the river is also seen in practice in the impoundment of rainwater promoting the infiltration in public gardens in the construction of cisterns to store water in landslide prevention with plants with net roots that hold the soil and in the use of spring water for irrigation The multispecific relations that are developed at the slope put in perspective some aspects of practices that have real ecological implications The animals and plants are seen as partners and it is interesting to understand these namings and the unfolding of these words The garden territory presents itself from them as a microcosm of possible symbologies The word “house” was mentioned in 11 interviews The association of the word “house” to “garden” shows the recognition of the importance of this space There is no separation among the spaces to sleep The house is common to humans and nonhumans The house is also the place to raise a family the home where the members of the family live This familiarity with individuals of other species is built on Earth The memory key refers to the ancestry as the exercise of memory by itself. Such ancestry has life as a relationship bond common to everything inhabiting the living Earth, everyone’s home (KRENAK, 2019) The familiarization of living creatures plays an important role in memory and in the construction of this ancient house it would be possible to share this memory and stimulate this familiarization bond with ancient values The outlined familiarity traits between plants and people indicate that this memory is in the house space and it shelters all the individuals of the family People also named gardens as “forests” or “the woods,” especially in areas with many plants and where there is native vegetation because the anthropic intervention is minor and the action of other creatures is better perceived “Bush” also appears in speech as a memory or from the knowledge of popular medicine and cosmetics “from the bush” in reference to an Afro-descendent background The use of words related to water to define gardens also appeared in the interviews and a perception of it as a present and active element in the territory represents an evident structuring element and the forest what the research calls “garden,” means that humans are present in this interaction If modern humans that only recognize themselves in the cities inhabit and build their space from an urban planning that pushes people away from other beings the humans that plant and create cosmopolitical worlds in their gardens do not recognize themselves in this city other possible and really sustainable ecological worlds survive Topophilia is a neologism defined as “the emotional bond between the person and the place or the physical environment, diffuse as a concept, but vivid and concrete as a personal experience” (TUAN, 2012 It associates to the geographic sense of space that the term topophilia associates feelings with the environment with the aim of promoting the idea of place and historical circumstances about the perceptions are emphasized Tuan explains how several people and cultures build life with the concept of memory associated with a topophilic spatial action as a decisive factor is how the loss of space implies the threat of identity loss The proposition of a loving relationship with Earth raised by the term “topophilia” enables the consideration of affectionate manifestations the term expresses the person’s association with the place of living as an inclusive relationship Tuan also highlights topophilia as a counterpoint to the homogenizing cultural forces Another neologism from which we can understand the love and friendship relations in the Possible Gardens is the term “biophilia.” According to Wilson (2002) it is the emotional connection that human beings have with other living organisms Wilson says that this connection is genetic and has evolutionary roots of life preservation and cultural experiences in which the person is inserted and lives since early childhood The emotions activated by the contact with others vary from attraction to aversion These perspectives also support some ecological movements Biophilia creates a hierarchy and gives different importance levels to other beings Both terms—topophilia and biophilia—are defined by the emotional bond they can be applied in understanding the relations that develop at the Possible Gardens emotions mean “dynamic physical dispositions and they define different action domains.” Maturana also emphasizes the denial of this praxis due to the insistence on rationality as a delimiter of human praxis Rejection negates the other and culminates in separation and there is nothing special or occasional about it would be on the baseline of planet devastation and ecological crisis The history of humanity shows that love is always associated with survival once it is only possible to survive with cooperation loving implies occupying yourself with the wellbeing of others respecting their space for them to exist in plenitude the word “friendship” will be incorporated which was widely mentioned in the interviews and love reaches all living beings and also places and contributes to a perception of multispecies collectives and the coexistence validated by this love are what turn the Possible Gardens multispecies families with fathers These agents and agencies uncovered in the Possible Gardens territory build politics from the worlds they create not only as existing elements but also as agents which build multispecific relationships allows expanding the politic circle in cities It enables us to envision other politics that make more sense in daily life from other cosmologies than the ones perceived by hegemonic planning or urban policies Resuming the definition of “garden” as a microcosm of infinity, a representation of a world, and a cosmology, the world of Possible Gardens is one of interaction among friends of all kinds. It is a living organism, a microcosm of the living Earth. According to the magical animist point of view of the shaman Kopenawa and Albert (2015) they are the absolute founding condition of life Returning to a multispecies and cosmopolitical perspective the use of the term Possible Garden allows reassuring the meaning of garden as metaphor It is also important to clarify some advances achieved it is possible to understand these are worlds of a lived experience that unites humans and nonhumans and migration of plants and knowledge that enable thinking about cities and rebuilding the understanding of their environmental history which can be perceived as an R-existing space and exchanges of affection and aggression are visible These are some of the relationships at the core of the production of community life and in the gardens a community that cannot be restricted to humans They are territorialized spaces that shape a world of socio-biodiversity and counter-hegemonic ways of living The gardens’ worth is inserted on the cosmopolitical struggles They are worlds that exist and resist for their common and individual memory and ecological knowledge that constitute them This observation contributes to a rethinking of the anthropocentric device that operates in urban thought and that delimits human life as a qualified to the detriment of other lives as unqualified and mechanical ones It also brings possibilities for expanding an ecological urban thought that does not subordinate itself to the kind of reductionism present in the classical opposition between culture and nature It highlights the perspective that social and environmental always go together in gardens A possible way of addressing the ecological catastrophe would be along the lines of (cosmo)political ecology incorporating the political view of all humans from the political ecology to the ability to not only recognize the action of new beings but also to treat as legitimate the different ways in which the ecological matter is imposed to several living beings Considering what has been developed so far this study presents some limitations given by the specificity of the social as well as by the territorial scope reached Possible Gardens constitutes a little-explored analytical category yet the study also points to new directions for a current problem: reinstalling nonhumans as political agents equipped with alterity and not as fragile elements to be protected or as resources to be exploited which means recognizing and inventing other ways of living establishing a more harmonious coexistence beyond the dichotomy contained in the idea of nature searching the confluences and the allies on the territories of the city to think about the cosmopolitics was this research’s path the Possible Gardens presented themselves as examples of cosmopolitics where ecological confluences take place that can be the catalyst for environmental policies In conclusion to what has been presented here the results open other ways to approach the term garden in urban territory foreseeing other “possible” resistant examples to imagine other worlds The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material; further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author Ethical review and approval was not required for the study on human participants in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements Written informed consent from the participants was not required to participate in this study in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements LB contributed to the conception and design of the study and read and approved the submitted version The research “Possible Gardens” was funded by the Pro-Rectory of Research of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG): project 23853–UFMG/REITORIA/PRPQ/PESQUISA E EXTENSÃO Many people contributed to the research presented in the article The author acknowledges the PRPQ/UFMG for funding and thanks the 12 students who engaged in data collection The author also thanks the gardeners who submitted their gardens for the survey Part of the research was developed as doctoral thesis The author acknowledges the NPGAU-UFMG graduate program The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1234178/full#supplementary-material 1Belo Horizonte is a city that was planned to be the capital of Minas Gerais designed by the engineer Aarão Reis with the aim of creating a modern capital for the state 2The multispecies anthropological studies have the dichotomy between nature and culture and between humans and nonhumans Bruno Latour will be the reference for the critique of this modern dichotomy The term “multispecies” will be based on Anna Tsing 3The term “cosmoperception” was created by the Nigerian author Oyeronke Oyewumi (2018) in connection with the term “cosmovision,” to set a distinction regarding the knowledge production and the perception of reality by different peoples According to Oyěwùmí the widespread term “cosmovision” creates a hypertrophy of vision to the detriment of other meanings the term “cosmoperception” is considered more appropriate 4The treatise Malleus maleficarum, written between 1486 and 1487, which served as a base for witchcraft trials, establishes a direct connection among women, plants, animals, and witchcraft. 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the route would stop until the amount it was due to receive from the State was paid as it was in a situation of “cash strangulation” the number of daily flights had already been reduced paid around half of the debt it owed the company From the beginning of the concession until the service was stopped first with the socialist government and then with the current Government The result of the public tender was known at the end of 2024 being chosen to continue operating for the next four years the Ministry of Infrastructure guaranteed that it was making every effort to resume the regional air route that connects Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve Sevenair returned to operating regional flights between Bragança and Portimão on the 21 March which had been interrupted since 3 March.  we will resume our daily flight activity between Bragança which explained that ticket purchases are now available again confirmed to Lusa that Sevenair has already paid the debt for the plane which was held at Tires aerodrome due to restrictions imposed by the municipal company Cascais Dinâmica due to the lack of payment of an alleged debt owed by the company responsible for the air connection At issue was a disagreement regarding an alleged debt for handling fees the services provided with the plane grounded in the amount of 107 thousand euros plus VAT (or a debt of 132,471.95 euros according to the local authority) that Cascais Dinâmica demanded but which the carrier considered “not to be due” The return to operation comes after Sevenair paid more than 130 thousand euros as it considers that the debt was collected unduly Lusa recalls that Sevenair questioned the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) about the legality of the assistance fee as it operates under a “self-handling regime” with a company it owns but the regulatory body concluded that the fee “is due by ground handling service providers or air carriers with a license for self-handling on ground” “Sevenair prefers to exhaust the legal means available to it to finally speak as the speed of justice does not keep up with reality as soon as the State reimburses us what it owes us the airline’s management had already stated during this interruption in a statement to which Lusa had access to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing told Lusa that it expected to pay Sevenair 660.5 thousand euros in the coming days relating to the fourth and final year of the previous concession contract for the public regional air link Bragança-Portimão with the amounts of the direct adjustments made still missing US rider tops Fábio Costa in two-up sprint for first pro victory Hugo Scala Jr (Project Echelon Racing) outpaced Fábio Costa (ABTF-Feirense) at the uphill finish of stage 5 of the Volta a Portugal and captured the biggest win of his career The 26-year-old US rider was part of the day’s 12-rider breakaway and he soared to the front with his Portuguese companion in the closing kilometres to decide the 176.8km stage in a two-up sprint Costa could not find go around and settled for second.  Julius Johansen (Sabgal-Anicolor) led a chase group of six riders across the line for third in Bragança five of them together at 14 seconds back and the sixth rider falling back another three seconds was allowed a leash of more than 4 minutes which gave José Félix Parra (Kern Pharma) a taste of the virtual lead for a time But ABTF Betão-Feirense stayed alert and did not give the front group more time and they kept Afonso Eulálio in the GC lead for a third consecutive day.  and holds a 16-second advantage over Colin Stüssi (Team Vorarlberg) and 26 seconds over Jon Aguirre (Kern Pharma) the Volta a Portugal returned for a fifth day of racing from Penedono and headed north After an early classified climb in the opening 25km a 2.6km fourth-category slope at Mėda (5.8%) the route passed through the Douro Valley.  The final half of the 176.8km stage then ramped back up with two more classified climbs including the 12.1km stretch to Serra de Bornes a category 2 section with an average of 4.5% where the breakaway was gone for the rest of the day.  Results powered by FirstCycling 2024 Jerdy Schouten puts PSV ahead with a superb strike in the first half Photo: ANP/Maurice van SteenPSV Eindhoven’s hopes of a first Champions League victory of the season were dashed as Daniel Braganca’s late volley earn Sporting Lisbon a point they scarcely deserved PSV were the better team for most of the match and deservedly took the lead in the 15th minute when Jerdy Schouten’s long-range shot flew in off the post But Peter Bosz’s side were unable to capitalise on their superiority with Luuk de Jong and Guus Til spurning good chances in the second half Instead Sporting came back into the game and minutes after Johan Bakayoko missed an open goal for PSV substitute Braganca rounded off the counter-attack by flicking in a cross with the outside of his right boot did not try to hide his frustration at the result “I didn’t see it coming,” he said of the equaliser “Before the 1-1 I didn’t think they created much “We scored a good goal in the first half from Jerdy Schouten and after the break we started well and had a few good chances But we didn’t take the rewards and we knew they could always be dangerous.” PSV’s next match in the competition is against Paris Saint-Germain in the French capital on October 22 We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey Camilla Fales de Bragança and Marco Lorenzo Hartmann were married on Nov 4 at an outdoor ceremony at the Mill Reef Club on the Island of Antigua who is married to Camilla’s cousin Elise Hillman Green of Chilmark and Greenwich The bride was attended by her maid of honor and seven bridesmaids including Ridgely and Chandler Green and cousins Hartwell and Harrison Green served as ushers Camilla is the daughter of Barbara (Suki) Fales de Bragança and Miguel de Bragança of Boston and West Tisbury Camilla was born at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and has spent at least part of every summer since at Windy Hill the house her maternal great-grandparents built on Old County Road in West Tisbury Next door lived her maternal grandmother Barbara (Bunny) Foote Fales whom she visited nearly every day when on-Island The bride works in strategy and operations at BetterUp a San Francisco-based leadership coaching platform and earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude from George Washington University She received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University is a consultant with McKinsey & Company He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in interdisciplinary sciences from ETH in Zurich and holds an MBA and a master’s in design innovation from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and McCormick School of Engineering he was presented with the Beta Gamma Sigma Award for being among the top of his class Marco is the son of the late Robert and Annamaria Hartmann of Altendorf The couple met in 2019 while studying at Kellogg They plan to honeymoon in southeast Asia in 2024 Subscribe or become a Friend of the Vineyard Gazette and receive our free newsletters and free and discounted tickets to Gazette events along with our award-winning news and photography Annabel Barbara de Bragança and Andrea Papi were married on June 22 at the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome a Seattle-based marketing and sales strategy consultancy and earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude from the George Washington University from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Annabel is the daughter of Miguel and Barbara (Suki) de Bragança of Boston and West Tisbury Her father retired as a managing director and portfolio manager at Trinity Investment Management Corporation an institutional investment management firm that was eventually acquired by OppenheimerFunds Her mother is a trustee and past president of the Alliance Française of Boston/Cambridge now merged into Boston’s French Cultural Center She was awarded the designation Chevalier dans l’Ordre du Mérite by the French government and is also a trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music Annabel has spent at least part of every summer since she was born on Martha’s Vineyard at Windy Hill the house her maternal great-grandparents built on Old County Road Her sister Camilla served as maid of honor and her Vineyard next-door neighbor and childhood friend Elizabeth Brandon was a bridesmaid Annabel’s first cousin Elise Hillman Green who summers in Chilmark at her family farm attended the wedding with her son Harrison and two daughters Andrea is an aerospace and thermal engineer at SpaceX He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Sapienza Università di Roma and a joint master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in Toulouse He is the son of Carlo and Simona Papi of Rome His father spent the majority of his career as an engineer and manager with SELEX Elsag Datamat SpA where he still serves as a consultant today The couple met through friends in 2012 when they were living and working in Paris They plan a honeymoon in New Zealand early in the new year Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors comforted by the Sacraments of the Holy Church and the Apostolic Blessing after a long illness endured with Christian resignation and conformity to the will of God.” This terse announcement touches not only upon the death of a remarkable individual but of an entire chapter of history not too well known in Europe and less so in the United States: the relatively short but not inglorious era of the Empire of Brazil The last time the world press noted its existence was in 2018 when Rio de Janeiro’s former Imperial Palace—the Paço de São Cristóvão now housing the priceless collections of the National Museum of Brazil—went up in flames thanks to technical incompetence The Empire to which Dom Luiz was heir was born in 1822 and in a way very different from the birth of the republics of North and South America had sought refuge in Rio de Janeiro— capital of the then world-spanning Portuguese Empire’s largest possession King John VI returned to the motherland to deal with difficulties The following year—partly inspired by the Wars of Independence ravaging Spanish America at that time—a movement arose seeking independence for Brazil The King advised his son to spare Brazil the bloodshed in their neighbouring countries and take command of the Independence Movement himself and in December of 1822 was crowned Pedro I In order to intervene in Portuguese affairs Pedro I abdicated in 1831 in favour of his son Pedro II—a child at the time—and returned home called “the magnanimous,” came of age in 1840 and presided over the greatest period of progress in Brazilian history the country was spared the instability of its neighbours was respected by both European powers and the United States and the Emperor gained a well-deserved reputation as a scholar and many other of the great names of his era Count of Eu (and grandson of the usurping and then deposed King of the French she was known to share her father’s distaste for slavery and desire for its abolition which roused the plantation owners against the Imperial family the republican positivism of August Comte spread amongst the army officers—leading many to oppose both the Monarchy itself and the Princess Imperial’s piety while her father was in Europe seeking medical attention and she was regent Her father returned and approved the measure but the result was a bloodless military coup in December of the following year The Imperial family went into exile in Europe The new republic seized their property and decreed their eternal banishment but the Princess Imperial was as opposed to bloodshed as her father and did not support them; they were quickly suppressed Brazil’s new republic went on to enjoy a series of governmental mishaps and catastrophes down to the present—in very similar fashion to her neighbours renounced his rights in order to marry a non-royal Austrian noblewoman married Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies He was active in supporting the Brazilian Monarchists until entering World War I; his service therein ruined his health was born in 1909 and assumed headship of the Imperial house when his grandmother died in 1921 Pedro Henrique married Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria the eldest child of what would be 12 in all Luiz Gastão Maria José Pio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança was born in Mandelieu-la-Napoule in the south of France Although the Imperial family underwent great privations during the war The ban on their returning to Brazil having been lifted years before the end of the war meant they could finally return in 1945 Guanabara Bay was wrapped in fog on the morning of our arrival and so we could only see bits of the wonderful landscape: a bit of the Sugar Loaf and Christ the Redeemer appeared among the clouds one more thing impressed me deeply that day: it was the way the Brazilian monarchists more in their gestures than in their words a duty to the country that I was seeing for the first time it was a grace from God that Rio de Janeiro was covered in mist when we arrived because it is possible that the panorama of Guanabara would have dazzled me so much that I would not have perceived something much higher which were the souls of the Brazilians who welcomed us and the duty that this meant for me The Imperial Family initially resided in Rio de Janeiro and Petrópolis before moving before moving to Fazenda Santa Maria in Jundiaí do Sul in 1957 Dom Luiz came into contact with the reality of country life Away from palatial splendor one might expect for a prince something that would not have been so easily within his reach had he been born and raised in a royal court Luiz studied at the schools Coração Eucarístico and Santo Inácio where he studied political and social sciences at the University of Paris and later chemistry and physics at the University of Munich In the sparse free time that the rigid university course allowed him he took the opportunity to make Brazil better known in the circles of the royalty and the high nobility and also in the Catholic intellectual circles in Europe He returned to Brazil in 1967 with a degree in chemical engineering he took over the management of his father’s secretariat who at the time lived in Sítio Santa Maria in Vassouras a former coffee-growing center of the Empire in the central southern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro The young prince’s moral and religious formation was complemented by Dr and founder of the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition which Luiz joined upon his return—in order to defend authentically Catholic values and beliefs and to defend Brazil from the great danger that threatened it he was one of the co-founders of the Institute Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira at a time when Brazil was going through the final phase of the military regime During the constitutional assembly that followed the political climate was favorable to demand consistency from the republican authorities—openness always assisted by his younger brother Dom Bertrand knew how to skillfully take advantage of the new circumstances reorganizing his Secretariat and initiating a broad work of linking the countless monarchists that existed in all states of Brazil with a vitality that surprised many who considered it to consist merely of a few nostalgic supporters After the National Constituent Assembly was convened in 1987 Luiz sent his “Letter to the Members of the National Constituent Assembly.” In this letter he showed the senators and deputies who were then drafting the current federal constitution that it was not possible to continue denying a voice to monarchists when even communists and extremist ex-guerrillas freely participated in the public and political life of the country 366 delegates voted for abolition of the so-called entrenched clause a constitutional provision that for nearly a century had left monarchists outside the law There were 29 votes in favor of keeping it and five abstentions Soon afterwards began the long and laborious campaign of the 1993 referendum about Brazil’s form of government: parliamentary monarchy Luiz did not think that the time for restoration had come and he was under no illusions about the referendum’s outcome; he knew that the process would be worked out by the republican authorities But he nevertheless took advantage of the occasion to spread monarchical ideals throughout Brazil which has had some fruit down to the present Although confronted with financial difficulties and unfair restrictions on access to radio and television to popularize his message They had proved that the Monarchy was still an alternative and a hope for a large number of Brazilians more focused on cultural than political aspects participating in Monarchist meetings and related events always maintaining contact with the real Brazil Travelling to the United States and Europe and attended important occasions of the European royalty and high nobility Luiz sought to address the nation by means of press releases and statements He also maintained a large correspondence and granted audiences to monarchists from all over Brazil as well as journalists and other Brazilians who wished to learn his opinions on a great variety of issues Dom Luiz was also widely read and enjoyed classical music He was Grand Master of the Brazilian Imperial Orders and member of a number of others including the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre President Jair Bolsonaro decreed official mourning throughout the country: civilian and military institutions throughout Brazil hoisted flags at half-mast in their headquarters and barracks through the Special Secretariat of Social Communication Several Brazilian states and foreign countries offered condolences Sympathy notes were sent to the Imperial Family from all over Brazil Expressions of regret came from reigning and former reigning families related to the Imperial Family in the presence of the Honor Guard of the Brazilian Navy and detachments of the Brazilian Army Dom Luiz was succeeded as the Head of the Imperial House by his brother is now Prince Imperial; his heir presumptive They and their followers have surely rededicated themselves to the cause of Restoration in Brazil This tribute appears in the Fall 2023 edition of The European Conservative Ann de Bragança of Palm Beach died in her home Saturday The couple moved to Miami and eventually to Rio de Janeiro Scholz was a pilot for Pan American World Airways flying Clippers with cargo across the Atlantic for the war effort a Pan American captain and Portuguese royalty de Bragança was an avid gardener in Pound Ridge and active in the Garden Club of America in New York she was Ladies Club Champion at the Bedford Golf and Tennis Club antiques and interior design business in Bedford Hills the de Braganças had a vacation home in Tuckers Town The de Braganças settled in Palm Beach in 1979 where Miguel de Bragança had spent time as a boy They belonged to the Seminole Golf Club and the Everglades Club Memorial donations may be made to the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, 3100/3200 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33409, or to Audubon Florida. locals in the historic mountain province of Trás-os-Montes cook a traditional pork sausage alongside whole bean pods in a pairing known as butelo e casulas Cooks make butelo by stuffing a pig's stomach with rib bones the perfect way to celebrate pre-Lenten indulgence before fasting season begins Preparing butelo e casulas is no easy feat then processed it into a meat-filled stomach pouch that could be smoked in the fireplace for weeks at a time farmers left the bean pods to dry out in the sun Cooks re-hydrate the beans a day before cooking them as an accompaniment to the offal sausage Because the process of assembling and preparing the seemingly-simple duo is time-consuming and requires access to almost an entire pig and local beans it's become increasingly difficult to find the capital city of Bragança in Trás-os-Montes honors butelo e casulas during winter festival season Some 25 local establishments prepare a version of the dish in February as part of a decadent last hurrah before Lent locals in the historic mountain province of Trás-os-Montes cook a traditional pork sausage alongside whole bean pods in a pairing known as butelo e casulas Cooks make butelo by stuffing a pig’s stomach with rib bones it’s become increasingly difficult to find the capital city of Bragança in Trás-os-Montes honors butelo e casulas during winter festival season Some 25 local establishments prepare a version of the dish in February as part of a decadent last hurrah before Lent Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Gastro Obscura in your inbox Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders the football world has changed a lot and many different periods were established Coaches and teams are able to define a generation and certainly Pep Guardiola and his Barcelona team changed the way people view football we’ve seen more small and physically meagre midfielders like Xavi Hernández Luka Modrić and Andrés Iniesta showing up and stealing the show there is another one of those midfield wizards showing up in Portugal Bragança joined Sporting’s academy at a young age and rose up the academy ranks quickly being viewed as the next wonderkid to emerge from the Alcochete production line he struggled for first-team opportunities and was loaned to LigaPro side Farense in January 2019 he was once again sent out on loan to another second-division side Bragança impressed on loan for the Canaries providing 4 goals and 4 assists in 22 appearances and winning the Best Young Player award of the 2019/20 season and instead of heading out on loan to a Primeira side he was included in the club’s first-team setup making his debut on September 24 in a UEFA Europa League qualifier against Aberdeen before coming off the bench and playing 25 minutes in a 2-0 victory against Paços de Ferreira The 21-year-old midfielder is one of seven Alcochete graduates to make his debut under Rúben Amorim Whilst he hasn’t nailed down a starting spot like Mendes or Inácio he has been an important impact sub and has even started three of Sporting’s last four games while coming on at halftime on April 11 in a 1-1 draw against Famalicão Player Analysis: Nuno Mendes Amorim has employed a youth-focused approach in rebuilding Sporting’s squad following the departure of attacking talisman Bruno Fernandes to Manchester United two months prior to his arrival “Quality has no age,” stated Amorim prior to a Taça da Liga match against Porto sprinkled with experience and with a lot to grow but full of ambition and with an enormous desire to overcome.” Sporting would go on to edge last year’s finalists in the Taça semis before winning the Final in Leiria against Braga with Amorim picking up his second consecutive triumph in the tournament after winning with Braga the year before Whilst Bragança was an unused substitute in the Final he has skyrocketed in importance during the home stretch of the season the Leões currently sit six points clear of Porto in first place Bragança is a complete and versatile left-footed midfielder who is able to play as a defensive midfielder Sporting mainly plays in a flat 3-4-3 and Bragança has already played in every position in the midfield and has also played as an inside forward or playmaker Standing at 1.69cm or 5”7,’ he doesn’t distinguish for his physical attributes but from his technical capacity and intelligence Player Analysis: Pedro ‘Pote’ Gonçalves he is really complete in every aspect of the game and although he isn´t physically strong he does know how to overcome that and play in a way that those “holes” don’t jeopardize his play Bragança hasn’t been a regular starter which accounts to a little under 400 minutes so the data available isn’t worth a mention I’ll analyze some of his best traits and some of his major problems and flaws Apart from being technically really strong Bragança also has a really good vision and anticipation knowing where is going to pass before receiving the ball which is one of the most important traits when discussing passing His preparation pre 1st touch is really good most of the time he has his body wide open and good body orientation he has the ability to quickly turn with 1 touch really good passing technique and first touch he has a nice range of passing and impressive technical ability it is also important for a midfielder to be direct and progressive At the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship group stage Bragança showed he can be very intelligent and progressive on the ball for Portugal the mental pressure is higher and I assume that is the main cause for him not being as progressive as he can He isn’t ultra-conservative nor something similar but he definitely could and maybe should be more progressive Although he mainly plays as a defensive midfielder or as an “8,” he has often played alongside Pote as an inverted winger/playmaker it’s important to have creativity but also end product and even though it isn’t Bragança’s main position I particularly don’t see him playing often as a “10” in the future as he lacks some final ball ability and end product it is important to evaluate his ability to offer a passing line and also how often he does it occupying the full-backs spot or playing between lines he isn’t as active but a big part of it is due to him mostly playing in more advanced areas when playing in the midfield there’s usually not much space I’ve already analyzed his passing and his passing anticipation knowing exactly what he’ll do before receiving the ball Now I’ll analyze his press-resistance ability one of the most looked at traits is the ability to evade pressure there are different types of players and not everyone has the technical ability to do so technical ability isn’t the only aspect to consider body orientation and also the physical aspect not particularly strength or pace but how resistant a player is to an opposition “touch” and also his balance and acceleration too There’s always been a pre-conceived idea that small and tiny players weren’t strong defensively and had problems playing in the midfield Although Bragança only stands at 1.69cm or 5”7′ and distinguishes himself for his ability with the ball he is really strong in the defensive assets He has proved he is strong on defensive duels and also has really good positioning and anticipation which makes him a really complete midfielder I’ve analyzed Bragança’s main qualities but it’s time to take a look at his biggest flaws He lacks some final ball ability and end product when playing in an advanced position He also lacks more progressiveness and aggressivity his biggest problem is his mentality in-game He has the right attitude without the ball but then he tends to play safer with the ball he showed a lot of confidence and was able to shine he hasn’t been as confident and doesn’t impact the match that much Once he’s able to play more regularly and consistently I believe this small issue will be gone and he will be able to perform better which can make him quite predictable sometimes Scouting Report: Daniel Bragança I believe Daniel Bragança’s best position is as a defensive midfielder It does suit his abilities better; he has the ball more often and he is also able to impact the match more than as an “8” or “10.” Following the sale of Wendel to Zenit for €20 million + €4 million Bragança has finally broken into the first team and demonstrated his fantastic talent for his boyhood club João Mário is on loan from Inter and although Sporting is negotiating his transfer Bragança is the man to assume his role and shine alongside João Palhinha but they to handle him properly to make the best out of him and to help him reach his potential expect Bragança to play a crucial role as the Lions close in on their first league title in 19 years After topping their group with a perfect record the Esperanças will be facing off against Italy in the U-21 Euros quarterfinal on May 31 As the same generation that won the U-17 Euros in 2016 and the U-19 Euros in 2018 they will be aiming to complete their trifecta and hoist the trophy in Ljubljana It’s unclear whether or not Bragança will be a starter for Portugal having been used as a late substitute in the first group stage match against Croatia before coming on for Florentino Luís at halftime and leading Portugal to a 2-0 victory over England in the second match The third and final match saw Rui Jorge drop Florentino for Bragança and he rewarded his trust with a brilliant display against Switzerland: 8/8 long balls completed With Florentino struggling for minutes at Monaco the odds are in Bragança’s favor to get the start against Italy Bragança has an extraordinarily high ceiling and very few flaws He is a uniquely gifted midfielder with the capacity to play in a variety of positions and while he may not last long at the Estádio José Alvalade if he keeps up his level of performances he has the chance to write history with Sporting by helping them end their title drought and achieve greatness Featured Image: @GabFoligno / Gualter Fatia / Getty Images The suburban Boca Raton teen who beat a 4-month-old pit bull to death last year after the puppy urinated on the floor was sentenced Thursday to a month in jail a year on house arrest and another two years of probation The plea deal for 19-year-old Kevin Braganca comes nearly a year after the April death of Tank one of two pit bulls who lived in an apartment with Braganca his girlfriend and another roommate at Arbor Oaks south of Glades Road on State Road 7 Maintenance workers and others at the building said they heard and saw someone from the apartment beating a yelping dog then dragging the dog back to an apartment A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy later traced the complaint back to Braganca’s apartment but he told them that the puppy had died at a veterinarian’s office Braganca told authorities that he “spanked” the puppy after it urinated on the floor of the apartment and both he and his girlfriend said they spanked both their dogs but usually on their backsides “because that area is harder and tougher.” They said they took Tank to the vet after the puppy began foaming at the mouth and didn’t know how he died but a veterinarian said he bled to death internally from injuries that included a lacerated liver The veterinarian said the dog also had bruises on his head and two broken teeth in his mouth — all injuries the veterinarian attributed to abuse Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control officer Adam Moulton in his report said that most puppy owners understand that accidents are just part of the house-training process “When a puppy urinates on the floor most reasonable people would clean the floor and continue trying to potty-train their animal,” he wrote “Kevin Braganca instead opted to physically beat his puppy until he lacerated its liver.” As part of the plea agreement between Assistant State Attorney Judith Arco and defense attorney Douglas Rudman Palm Beach Circuit Judge Charles Burton agreed Thursday to withhold a finding a guilt against Braganca on the felony cruelty to animals charge The 30-day jail sentence will be followed by three years of probation but the first year will be on house arrest Braganca under the terms of the agreement will also never be allowed to own an animal again and probation officers will have the right to make unannounced checks at his home to see whether he has any animals there He will also have to undergo a psychological evaluation within a month of his release from jail and will be required to complete any recommended treatment A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with the Saturday morning shooting death of a man on the 19th floor of a downtown Austin high-rise Saturday evening and charged him in the shooting of Alan Picazzo Eggleston, who public records show is a Maryland native, is a former college basketball player who was on the teams at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Arkansas State University and Bryant University in Rhode Island between 2017 and 2021, according to various media reports and a biography on ESPN.com First responders received a 911 call from Eggleston's roommate around 6:30 a.m reporting six gunshots inside the Quincy apartment building He said the person had been shot on the 19th floor and was possibly in the elevator Police found Picazzo with multiple gunshot wounds inside the freight elevator on the first floor Police have determined that Eggleston had been "out earlier in the evening" with his roommate at a bar on Sixth Street a neighbor who resided on the 29th floor of their apartment complex after Eggleston's roommate left the bar and returned home Eggleston and Braganca returned to the apartment complex at 5:01 a.m. Eggleston told police that he went to the 29th floor to purchase marijuana from Braganca when he noticed the apartment door was ajar He took about 2 ounces of marijuana and a firearm Eggleston told police that he "felt bad" about stealing from Braganca and he and Braganca later arranged to meet at the elevators so he could return the marijuana Surveillance footage shows Eggleston inside an elevator and Braganca standing directly outside it at 5:31 a.m. exchanging a storage container of marijuana and a suitcase with video games The footage shows Braganca brandishing a firearm and Eggleston later told police he felt threated by Braganca Eggleston returned to his apartment on the 19th floor after no violence ensued He told police that later he heard two people knocking at his apartment door and attempted to look out of the peep hole The two people began to kick at the door until it came off its hinges and Eggleston was able to see that they were wearing masks while trying to keep the people from entering his apartment by putting his weight against the door He used the gun he took from Braganca's apartment and shot several rounds into the hallway He told police he heard one of the individuals say they had been hit Eggleston exited the apartment building and walked less than three blocks to conceal the handgun underneath the Interstate 35 overpass that intersects East Cesar Chavez Street Eggleston initially did not disclose the gun's location to law enforcement but later relented when police said he was seen on surveillance footage The affidavit did not specify whether Eggleston knew Picazzo nor did it identify the second masked man who was trying to break into Eggleston's apartment Eggleston is being held at the Travis County Jail on charges of murder theft of a firearm and tampering with physical evidence with intent to conceal Amaro has also provided training and written internal procedures to support her colleagues but she hopes to keep learning and developing her anti-financial crime skills You must be logged in to post a comment View Poll 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It’s no secret that Sporting Lisbon possesses one of Benfica and Porto have found success in scouting South American players and selling them for hefty profits but Sporting’s key to becoming a perennial Champions League side is homegrown 10 of their academy products made their way onto the pitch in Portugal’s victorious Euro Final including current Ballon D’Or holder Cristiano Ronaldo Sporting’s academy continues to churn out top-notch talent and it seems their next generation is living up to the hype with Gelson Martins becoming the Leões’s standout player this season and Palhinha solidifying his reputation as one of the toughest midfielders in Liga Sagres there is one 17-year-old who still plays for the U19 side but who is bound to generate plenty of hype when he breaks into the first team: Daniel Bragança I sought out to analyze the 17-year-old’s game in the only two full matches available on the Internet: Sporting C vs Bragança is the captain and regista of Tiago Fernandes’ U19 side a player who gives fluidity to possession while using fearless aggression in challenging for the ball I couldn’t help but think Bragança would shine even brighter in a different system Fernandes’ system is built on passing back to the goalkeeper while another component is solo runs and through balls through the wings There is little to no delicate build-up through the midfield but he needs to play for a system that can let him control the center of the pitch for the majority of the game chase down opponents for possession and win headers and he needs a manager to get the best out of his qualities When I first saw Bragança against Benfica’s C team I criticized him for not getting himself available enough into positions to receive A mediocentro should be getting himself in positions to aid the clean distribution of the ball out of defense while also finding himself in positions to stop counter-attacks it seems Fernandes instructed him to man-mark Benfica’s #10 This seems to be a common pattern; when I watched the Sporting captain against Real Madrid he stuck to Madrid’s #6 like white on rice Bragança has the potential to be one of the best registas in football he needs to master the art of Juego de posición His lackadaisical marking led to a Benfica counter at 36:40 Fernandes’ demands have made him man mark his way out of positional nirvana This man-marking leads to Braganca being generally out of position sometimes he is so advanced that when Madrid’s #8 spins one Sporting CB (#4) leading to the other Sporting CB (#3) stepping out of line in order to tackle #8 and win possession back The mediocentro art usually takes years to master but when you look at the likes of Julian Weigl and Sergio Busquets players who began starting for European elites when they were just kids their positional sense was absolutely sublime and Sporting’s board should seriously be considering moving him out on loan he has executed Fernandes’ instructions well and even risking fouls with his tenacious style I think he will fit into the new crop of registas like Santiago Ascacibar and Amadou Diawara: a calming presence at the base who can also swarm an opponent for the ball like an angry hive of wasps This component in the Portuguese’s game will make him extremely versatile he’s quite impressive in this category although he goes into a few too many due to Fernandes’ long ball philosophy and as he carries the model of a controlling midfielder the team’s build-up should be structured around him especially in chipping passes over back to the center backs he’ll sometimes see a player making a run yet plays a through ball out for a goal kick Bragança needs to find out what position is his best tracking the movement of Benfica’s #10 his future is neither as a mediapunta nor a volante mixto there are certain characteristics of passing each positional player must master he has to improve his through balls and efficiency in the final third he must improve the clean distribution of the ball out of defense he shows glimpses that he can become a world-class metronome His sheer quality on the ball is enough to place an investment in him he didn’t see #7 rushing to win back the ball and he lost possession seconds after he received it Watching English football as often as I do I’d have expected a 17-year-old to commit a foolish mistake in midfield I expected him to clear it to Benfica’s goalkeeper with a larger midfielder closing him down this play encapsulated not only the captain’s brilliance but the team’s system flaws #17 does a roulette against several defenders and strikes it to Sporting’s goalkeeper who boots it into midfield for another aerial duel The teenager can fortify his strength even further but he does hold off players with relative ease and he always finds a way to get stuck in using his body as a shield to win the ball Bragança often rushes his decisions; he needs to realize that most of the time he has more time on the ball than he thinks He’ll usually make the right choice on the ball but he needs a system that forces him to vary his decisions So much of Fernandes’ system is built on through balls to the wingers and the captain must learn the importance of diversity in a regista’s game Sporting could not have found themselves a better captain rushing over to the scene of the crime when a Madrid player commits a horrendous tackle on his teammate indicating where they need to move to defend while also pointing out where they must move to in order to receive possession He leads by example in his effort and words He tends to put himself into positions to mark and defend rather than to receive and his defensive efficiency is quite overwhelming for a player so antithetical to a typical destroyer He isn’t conservative in his challenges and he sometimes even sticks a leg up in the air to win possession but this shouldn’t be his foremost skillset He has the blueprint to become a top-notch mediocentro but his offensive positioning needs more improvement than his defensive positioning There are occasions in which the teenager will rush his decisions without need but he has a good general knowledge of the run of play and is usually the most tactically advanced player on the pitch he always scans the pitch to check his positioning whether his team is in possession or defending his positional intelligence needs the most work he’ll either join the lines of defense in safeguarding against an attack in order to become a world-class holding midfielder What will set him apart from the likes of Sergi Samper and Rúben Neves two promising regista projects who have stagnated he can play across a midfield three but his best fit is at the base As opposed to some of Sporting’s rising talents Bragança won’t become an end product machine His shots rarely force the goalkeeper to even make a diving effort but he does press opponents with relentless determination concentrating on winning the ball back from opponents rushing them into playing long balls or making poor decisions It’s his determination in hurrying the opponent that stands out but his profile isn’t as a shuttler like Corentin Tolisso or Mahmoud Dahoud Bragança must improve this area of his game his ability to glide past pressing opponents and shield the ball from counterattacks he needs a system which not only tests his locomotion but improves it he plays in a system where the team plays solely through the wings but they will decide to dribble it up the wing and lose possession If he was tasked with protecting the back four instead of man-marking players and gegenpressing but he should not be condemned to the role of the workhorse of the side He was taken off midway through the Benfica match but he puts in a solid shift where he harries players for the ball constantly Even the likes of Marco Verratti and Xavi in his prime rack up kilometers pressing the opposition so he could fit into the enhance blueprint eventually and perform the requisite defending it necessitates crossing and general accuracy from dead balls are nothing special They rarely make contact with the intended target but the system should limit his crossing to a minimum Bragança’s dribbling has room for improvement but his locomotion is the real necessity for a regista like him as it does not seem like the 17-year-old will become a mezz’alla or forward Even though he may find himself positioned as a second striker due to man marking duties it is clear as day his best position is as a midfielder who operates in the first or second third so it isn’t a necessary category for him to improve in given his profile I would say that his strongest quality is his dedication to the coach’s advice While this may turn him into a carthorse and shape him away from the artistic mediocentro he can become His positioning is all over the place due to Fernandes’ demands Not only does he adhere to the words of the manager but also the demands that the armband carries It seems to me he will become similar to Marseille’s Maxime Lopez with tenacious aggression He leads by example in his ability and his vicious aggression Should he develop into a holding midfielder this tenacity will aid him in his positional transition despite his small stature BOCA RATON, Fla. (WPEC) - A teen from Boca Raton allegedly used Snapchat filters to take photos of a pit bull puppy he's accused of killing according to a report from Animal Care and Control The investigation began in April when lawn maintenance workers called 911 to say they had seen a man beating a tiny puppy the man beating the puppy dragged it inside a house where the puppy could still be heard yelping and crying Braganca later told investigators he had spanked his dogs in the past for misbehaving but he didn't know why the puppy had died Authorities said Braganca and his girlfriend brought the lifeless puppy to the Animal Hospital of Boca Raton A hospital worker saw the couple taking Snapchat photos of the deceased dog according to a statement from Animal Care and Control The on-call veterinarian performed a necropsy and found signs of abuse The veterinarian said the puppy died from blunt force trauma Subscribe now to get full access to our exclusive News Get started with a ch-aviation subscription unrestricted access to all of ch-aviation's news and data for 14 days Upgrade to our Data and News Subscriptions Aviation Intelligence for your everyday use We offer a comprehensive aviation industry database utilised by various entities such as operators The living and kitchen spaces are wrapped in full height glass planes The architect has created continuity between interior and exterior space flooding the house with light and a generous sense of space The living room leads out onto a covered terrace The sleeping areas are enveloped in timber screens concrete and tiles exaggerate the sense of perspective in the corridor An additional volume containing a timber deck and infinity swimming pool protrudes from the main floor slab into the landscape The swimming pool's tip appears to subtly float above the site's slope Facing west onto the soft hilly landscape at its feet and respecting the topography's natural contours the house sits at the area's highest point Casa Redux surely encapsulates the idea of a dream retreat See the interactive floor plan of Casa Redux by Marcio Kogan Designed by Marcio Kogan and his Studio MK27 team the house is made of two equally sized concrete horizontal slabs One acts as the floor - elevated half a metre off the earth so that it gives the impression of lightly hovering above ground - and the other is the roof There are four programmatic elements sandwiched between these two slabs: the first comprises the bedrooms and a sauna and the fourth caters for the garage and service room strong architectural gesture - the structure's floating concrete slab 'sandwich' form - Kogan and his team have created a healthy dialogue between the house and its natural environment that makes for a perfect getaway from Brazil's bustling urban centres escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox.