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Another game, another battle

July 1st, 2006 | By: Zé Fernando | 12 Comments »

Brazil plays the World Cup quarterfinals against France in less than 7 hours. See the preview preview here, and then follow the liveblog here.

Brazil started a bit slowly on the World Cup - winning all matches, but facing hard criticism because it failed to reach the level of performance expected by the media and the general public. It still isn’t into high gear. France, on the other hand, had a below average qualification round - winning only one match - but has improved through the tournament, specially after a convincing victory over Spain.

Today will be the day that either Zidane will play his last match as a professional player, or the day that Zidane will assert its place as Brazil’s slayer; the day Ronaldo will show the world he’s back from the shadows, or the day Zidane will show the world he hasn’t left the light yet; the day Parreira’s stubborness will prove genious, or the day his ignorance will become apparent; the day Brazil will break another record, or the day they will be sent home with just a collection of numbers on the bag.

What day will this be?

As a brazilian, I’m confident on their ability to get past France. On the other hand, I also know they’ll face their toughest opponent so far. Brazil is known to get into the right gear during the last matches of the World Cup - here’s to hope we will see that today… and that I don’t have a heart attack in the process — the anxiety, my friend, is excruciating.

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By Zé | July 1st, 2006 at 2:52 pm

Hey guys, two things about comments I have to say:

1. If you add a comment and if doesn’t show up immediatelly, it means it has been caught by the anti-spam system that’s installed on WorldCupBlog (Akismet). If that happens, try posting with a different email address, as some email domains are known to cause trouble (@yahoo specially). I try to go through the blocked spam list as oftenly as possible to approve the valid comments, but it’s quite hard considering there’s hundreds of comments that get caught by the system (the vast majority of them being spam bots). This system has been installed on all WCB blogs since the beginning, and we (blog writers) don’t have access to the block list, so we can’t investigate why particular comments never show up or “fix” it if it’s repeatedly blocking someone.

2. Many of you may have noticed that as of yesterday the Argentina blog was met with a torrent of hate posts, many of them from Brazilian supporters. Let me be the first to tell you none of the comments posted there have anything with people who post regularly here on Brazil’s section of WorldCupBlog (and specially that we don’t instigate hate or racism speech). If you feel the need to retaliate here by posting your idea of hate, remember that by doing so you will simply showing your trash is similar to our trash - you will be providing retaliation to people that wasn’t even related to that crap. It won’t make you look better. So you’re free to say how much you don’t like us as usual, but at least do that knowing you’re just being childish and naive.

With that said, let’s have fun. It will be a hell of a game, I’m sure!

Posted from Brazil

By Ash | July 1st, 2006 at 3:03 pm

Go Brazil, in 2 words

Posted from New Zealand

By Johnny L. Fashkha | July 1st, 2006 at 3:35 pm

first of all, i would like to thank Ze’ for his time and effort to update and keep us informed !!!

i hope Ze’ will be rewarded with a “Hexa” trophy for the selacao, but let me concentrate on tonight…i wish Robinho, Juninho, Cicinho and Gilberto Silva will be part of the brazilian startup tonight…

i think this is going to be an interesting game for the Brazilians, and hopefully God will be watching too!!

Obrigado Brazil for making us believe…..

Posted from Lebanon

By Gustavo | July 1st, 2006 at 4:11 pm

I just read that Parreira will start with Juninho Pernambucano, and advance Ronaldinho to Adriano´s spot!

Parreira is a misterious guy, but he knows what he is doing!

I just wished he put cicinho and gilberto, but I think thats asking too much… lol

GO BRASSSIIIILLLLLL

By Zé | July 1st, 2006 at 4:14 pm

Gustavo: Wow.. that IS a surprise! I’m just seeing it now! I’ll post another article, thanks for the heads up.

Posted from Brazil

By EagleEye | July 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm

Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho

Juninho Pernambucano, Kaká

Zé Roberto, Gilberto Silva

Roberto Carlos, Juan, Lúcio, Cafu

Dida

IS THIS A DREAM TEAM OR WHAT?
Today the world will see RESULTS AND JOGO BONITO. The best players of the world are in OUR team, no theirs.

* 1958 SWEDEN
* 1962 CHILE
* 1970 MEXICO
* 1994 USA
* 2002 KOREA/JAPAN
* 2006 GERMANY

HEXACAMPEAO

By brazilian2006 | July 1st, 2006 at 4:28 pm

aren’tyou guys nervous.The anticipation istaking it’s toal on me. Iwas even planning on not seeing the game and if they win, I’ll watch the reruns

Posted from Netherlands

By brazilian2006 | July 1st, 2006 at 4:31 pm

Go Brazil!!!!!!!

Posted from Netherlands

By Arjuno | July 1st, 2006 at 6:07 pm

A much welcome update - Thanks Ze! So Parreira spices things up, clearly adapting to what he anticipates in France. The line-up sounds good to me. Adriano already has a yellow and I’m sorry to see Kaka out (injury no doubt). Are you sure Robinho is out?

This one has all the makings of a classic!

By Falcao | July 1st, 2006 at 6:08 pm

brazilian2006,
That’s exactly how I feel too. The best way to fight the anxiety is to watch and support your team mentally and spiritually.

Posted from United States

By Jono | July 1st, 2006 at 8:34 pm

Brazil will win! 2-0 or 2-1

By Zé | July 1st, 2006 at 8:46 pm

Arjuno: yes, Robinho’s out.. for the first time on this WC, Parreira announced the lineup 3 hours before the match.

In regards to Robinho, Parreira will probably resort to his old strategy, of putting him after 70 mins of play. *Maybe*, because he would have to replace Ronaldo or Ronaldinho, and not Adriano anymore.. so it might have changed.

Posted from Brazil

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