Diego’s Father in Jail

February 6th, 2007 | By: Euler Costa | 5 Comments »

Today Brazil will play against Big Phil, Ronaldo & Co. Dunga is experimenting many players and tactics while some of the big names will not take part in the match. Ronaldinho and Robinho are injured, as is Alex (PSV). Diego (Werder Bremen) was called for today’s game, but Dunga is not revealing the starters yet. During training today, Adriano was benched and Rafael Sobis and Fred formed the attack.

London Party While the Portuguese people are extremely confident of a win today and the English press tries to build drama between Ronaldinho and Dunga, Diego got a disturbing information from Brazil, regarding his father. It seems that Djair Cunha drove his car over some motorbike rider that ended up in a hospital. It looked like a normal traffic accident at first but some people reported that they had some kind of previous feud. Djair was arrested immediately and will wait for the formal charges from the victim.

Diego received the surprising news soon after the arrest, and said to reporters that he will maintain focus on today’s match, and will deal with his father after the game. Poor Diego…

About today’s match I don’t think that most Brazilians will expect a great performance from the players, since they seem so far from our country and not motivated themselves. Some newcomers will take the opportunity to showcase their individual skills and try to confirm a permanent place in the main team, but as I said before, the next World Cup is still very far. Until 2010 we still will see a whole new group of new talents emerging to represent our country. One name in particular I would like you all to pay attention: Alexandre Pato (the Duck).

Anyway, Portugal has a good football history against Brazil, but it is still not enough for us to consider them as a big rival, like Argentina or Italy. My feeling is that we are too friendly to get fanatic against them, especially when our Phil is in charge there.

Special good luck for Diego today.

Tags: Adriano, Alexandre Pato, Big Phil, Brazil, Diego, Duck, Dunga, Felipe Scolari, Fred, Portugal, Rafael Sobis, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo

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Comments

By conceicao | February 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

Here is my problem with all of this. Going into
the 1994 World Cup, the only two countries who
could claim an historical advantage over
Brasil were Hungary and Portugal. Now, after
two more Cups, making another final, and
generally dominating over the last 13 years,
the selecao is now being dogged by not only
Hungary and Portugal but also Norway and
France, and it just keeps getting worse. Aside
from beating Hungary 4-1 recently, it is all
more humiliation and little chance of regaining
the edge against any of the four in the next 20
years. Brasil could beat all four in the next
World Cup and still be inferior to all four
historically in my mind. And what about the badass avenger Dunga? He hasn’t even been coaching the team for six months and has already had his face rubbed into it by Norway and Portugal.

Posted from United States

By Euler | February 9th, 2007 at 11:21 am

Funny, I don’t have this feeling at all. Historic advantage? Every team must lose sometime. We won in 2002, right? Let me list some defeats we took before that: we lost to Mexico, Honduras, France, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay in 2001 and 2002.

In 2006 we were all happy because of the Confederations Cup and Copa America, but the team was lame during the World Cup.

I wouldn’t worry about Hungary or Norway for now.

Posted from Brazil

By conceicao | February 9th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Euler, you are much more generous of spirit than I am and I compliment you for it. But we are talking about a team that had never - am I right?
- ever even lost a World Cup qualifier until the qualification round for the ‘02 Cup. Now
we have the string of losses you cite plus a losing
record against four countries in all-time
World Cup competition. The selecao has simply
gotten too used to losing and the lack of effort in
Germany probably had a lot to do with the
lowering of standards that naturally comes from
rationalizing losing to all of these weiner
countries. The worst part of it is that the great
majority of these losses were avoidable and
the recent record just gives fuel to the Brasil-haters who are only too willing to dismiss the selecao as just another team.

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By Euler | February 15th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

That really is the worst thing about all this. Giving haters fuel to their crazy minds.

I must confess… now that we are no longer the #1 in the Fifa rank, it feels a little awkward… and again: more fuel. Don’t worry, we’ll be back soon.

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By ALex | March 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

i think they r going to do just fine so all of ya’ll talkin mess about brazil ya’ll better watch it because they r going to do just fine then ya’ll will regreat what ya’ll said

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