Who watch Brazil last night? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Boy have they lost that flair. Coutinho got over look for this squad. Coutinho is better than almost all of these players. He should be offended. Are the great Brazil now a part of football history?
not great to watch, but at the moment its just about qualifying, which they look like doing. i don't understand why Coutinho isnt in that team either, ex chelsea manager maybe
He would give them much needed creativity in midfield and someone feeding Neymar would be good it would also mean the Neymar is in the right position instead of hunting for the ball.
Gaggin fer it they are [video=youtube;hJyeRorRKGg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJyeRorRKGg[/video]
Gonzoporn! Watch the one on the right early on. It's deliberately showing its **** off to the camera Horny bitch
Anyone looking for 1970s' brazilian footy will be waiting along time.They're a big,physical side more concerned with bank balances and what their hair looks like on the big screen.Samba it ain't. Oh,and Ford should be in that squad to provide creativity and vision.
Always thought Neymar would be better served as a out and out striker instead of trying to be the Brazilian Messi, which he's clearly not. Think Neymar and Brazil would work alot better and score more with a player like Coutinho behind Neymar, they'd certainly be more dangerous with Neymar actually being inside the box rather than yards outside. A few of the Brazil squad seem to have been picked cause they are part of Scolari's "squad" rather than form or ,in the case of Fred and Jo, quality. Question for tournament football, do you pick a squad to fit and make a team OR do you pick the best players and then cobble together a team.
I'd agree with this totally, especially as Brazil's actual forwards are so average. What exactly does Fred do? Oscar could then play in his best position centrally behind the striker and have proper wingers playing wide.
i dunno.. neymar is of a type. i'm sure the fred thing is to put another "type" in but he's muck. I think brazil are a bit all over the place but they are sure to be in SFs as anything else allows too long for protests and riots and such to break out
Brazil is a large country with some of the most passionate football mad citizenry in the world... they will be a power for many years to come- even if they screw up now.
I think a lot of it is they have lost their mystique. In the 60's , 70's you would never see a lot of these players except at world cups and they played with a flair and panache that wasn't often seen here in Britain. So to watch them then was a revelation . And of course they surprised teams with their different methods of play. Now a lot of them have become europeanised and play a different way. We are used to seeing them week in week out and of course coaches can plan tactics better. I think the days of Brazil being the team everyone wants to see are over. And judging from their last two games they are nothing more than workman like now. England played with more imagination...now there's a statement never thought I'd write
No. England 50million?, mostly dispassionate fans- waning interest in playing- even if armchair football still going strong. Brazil 190 million, fervent fans- many of whom grow up playing the sport every day and see it as only hope to get out of the slums. We're nothing like Brazil.
I heard one pundit talking about how, many years ago, brazillian coaches decided that small technical midfielders could not succeed in the modern game, playing fast posession football so they focussed on creating physically strong athletes. Apparently they were dumbfounded by by how successful xavi and iniesta have been
