LiveBlogging the Friendly

I was thinking about writing during our friendly game when I saw Shawn’s post. Well let’s see if I can do this work. I won’t narrate it, but I’ll try to comment it a little. Reload every 5 or 8 minutes!

First half is over. I’m not pleased. Ronaldo and Adriano lost too many opportunities, trying to pass all the time. We need more! Roberto Carlos’ goal was credited to Ronaldo, that was just trying to remove himself from the trajectory.

The refs did a lousy job giving Russian attack that offside. The game should be 1:1. Not to mention the ball hitting our post very dangerously.

That Ricardinho is doing nothing but wrong passes. The Russian team is not going to the World Cup and during winter they stop the football season because of the snow, so their players should be in vaccations, so Brazil should be winning with far more goals than that.

Second half just began…

Wow!!! Russia is playing better now (53min). Our defense is a little confused, but Rogerio Ceni is working well.

Our most dangerous weapon until now is Roberto Carlos’ powerkicks. I really don’t like Ricardinho style. I don’t think he should be the substitute for Ronaldinho who plays fast and advanced. He is slower and not very talented.

Too bad that the Russians are not so good. It would be nice to see them scoring just to wake up our team. If Russians were a little better they would have scored 2 other goals. Scary scenes!!!

The field is in lousy conditions… are the Russians used to play in this temperature? It’s -17 celsius and the field has almost no grass at all. The ball seems to be faster and harder to be controlled.

Ronaldo is removed ans so is Rob Carlos. What now??? I hope someone will continue kicking from outside the goal area, because the fast passes are not happening. The Selection is completely disfigured now and Parreira will use the rest of the time to test the new guys.

Gustavo Nery and Fred will probably try to show everything they can to Parreira. I wish them luck, because this result is shameful. Cicinho did it again… passed insted of shooting to an opened goal. Why? I can’t even imagine any reason whatsoever.

More tests! French team enters! I’ve heard very good things about Juninho… let’s see if he can deliver some good moves.

Rogerio Ceni displayed all his talent now. Parreira is in trouble now. And Russia is coming with full strength. Brazil seems to be frozen… foward and in the defence. I won’t be surprised if Russia turn the table on us.

Long sleeves uniform looks nice… (yown!)

Adriano seems to be playing blindfolded… meanwhile Russia almost scored again. The ref didn’t give Russia a penalty. I’m hating this game. Give our players some vodka! Urgent! Vodka and coffee at the same time!

Cold game… and I’m listening to Björk at the same time… he he he… how ironic. At the other hand I’m sweating… 38 degrees celsius here… (I must get an AC to me)

End of game. Am I happy? No. Is any Brazilian happy? No. Russia deserved to win, but I can’t blame Parreira for wanting to test everybody. Now I’ll wait for my birthday (may 15th) to know the official calling, the true Selection. What I saw today was just sad. Not a pretty sight and a bad debut for this new yellow shirt. Nike is evil.

Rogerio, at least, displayed all his potential and I wish him all the luck.