Comments on: Diego’s Father in Jail

By: ALex

ALex — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:08:19 +0000

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

By: Euler

Euler — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:42:12 +0000

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.

By: conceicao

conceicao — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:13:47 +0000

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.

By: Euler

Euler — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:21:42 +0000

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.

By: conceicao

conceicao — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:01:12 +0000

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.