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Independence Day For Dunga

September 8th, 2008 | By: Bruno Romani | 12 Comments »

Reflecting the low morale of Brazil, no one wants to take care of ths blog. I’ve been invited to contribute for this round of the World Cup Qualifying. So, I’m gonna just paste what i wrote on my blog. If you don’t know it yet and wanna be educated on Brazilian football, I take care of the Brazil Offside. And please, somebody take charge of this. I’m not getting a freaking dime to take care of two high-profile blogs. Here we go:

A few things about the victory of Brazil over Chile must be said:

-Today, Chile and Bolivia (our next rival) are the weakest sides in the South American zone. So, take it easy on the excitement.

-Luis Fabiano loves Dunga. When people wanted him out back in November, the Sevilla striker scored twice against Uruguay. This Sunday, Dunga was a fart away from unemployment, but Luis Fabiano pulled another 2 goals and the pass for the goal scored by Robinho.

-When Kléber was the best Brazilian left-back, Dunga insisted with Gilberto. Now that Kléber is in the worst moment of his career, he is in the starting line-up. Where’s Marcelo?

-Ronaldinho, the national team is not some sort of rehab or spa. Go get recovered, then you return.

-Robinho is lucky against Chile. But the dude still needs to learn how to shoot.

-Diego is bench material. Can you believe this was one of his best matches for the national team?

-If what it takes for Brazilian players to put some passion in their game is to say that Argentine players are an example to be followed, then “Messi is God”.

-Valdívia left his heart in Brazil. Chile was going to have 45 minutes in an 11 against 10 situation. But the ex-Palmeiras midfielder managed to disappear with the extra man advantage for his team by being eject in an innocent way.

-Finally Lula made reasonable statements with clear results. Too bad it wasn’t where he is supposed to do that.

Having said all of this, September 7th is the Brazilian Independence Day, but Dunga is the one who has a lot to celebrate his personal independence. His squad played a good match, shutting up the press, the fans, CBF and even the president. The newspaper “Estado de São Paulo” reports that the coach used the president a lot to motivate his players. According to the paper, even the words “son of a bitch” were part of the meeting between players and coach before the match. And of course, after the victory, Dunga said to the press that the president now must be happy. In any case, with or without the presidential statement, this match had the right configuration for the squad headed by Dunga. The team was going to defend (as it always does when it plays away) and use counter attacks to try the victory. The Chileans, underestimating Brazil, had an offensive formation, leaving a lot of space. That’s all we needed. Relying on a good performance of Luis Fabiano, beating the locals was less difficult than expected. With the almost certain victory on Wednesday, we will have to stand the grumpy coach at least until the end of the year.

Tags: Chile, Dunga, Luis Fabiano, Road to Africa 2010, World Cup Quallifying

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By Josimars | September 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am

You certainly don’t like Dunga. I love him maybe its because of my age. We are the same age. I remembered years ago when we had Falcao, Socrates, junior Zico and the like and oh we loved them but the did not win anything. I cried when we lost against italy and I nver stopped morning until we won in 1994. In 1998 I wasnt that hurt because of what happened to Ronaldo. In 2002 we suffered until the great scolari had the guts to stand up to Romario and we won. Parriera squandered our chance by playing old men such as cafu and roberto carlos. Whenever he played younger guys such as cicinho, maicon and even mancini we won. Remember the confederations cup and the copa. Now here comes Dunga and he has his own style. I am a football pragmatist. I prefer to see ugly football and win than pretty football and lose.Thats why I love Dunga. He has made me lose money in the past by getting against him when we played Argentina in the Copa Final and I must say I wasn’t sorry I lost the money.

By rajiv | September 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

I dont see why all the critisism…are you another person who should maybe relocate to argentina and write about them? they are now in second, have not won four of their last games, why not provide some insight to them about how they can improve? about 20 years brazil played all out attack and they were unstoppable…and commentators said its suicide to sit back and wait against brazil. So teams started to attack brazil and realised brazil make mistakes under pressure and can be defeated. so every team started attacking them…Now everyone is angry that brazil have found the perfect answer to that, a ruthless counter attack…now brazil say, “hey if you want to attack us, go ahead - we’ll just smash you on the counter” and once again people have to re-think about how to stop brazil and that makes all the brazil-haters angry, so they shout for dunga to be sacked so that once again brazil will start playing stupid attack football (like agrgentina and chile) and become “specialists in losing” once again. I hope dunga stays for a VERY LONG TIME. Also to say chile are the whipping boys along with bolivia shows you have ZERO knowledge of the game. Before brazil hammered chile, they were challenging for top spot in the group. how did they suddenly become as bad as bolivia? because brazil beat them. In comments like that you show very little respect to a tough team like chile.

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By peter | September 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Let’s give Dunga a chance and not jump on the Dunga-hater bandwagon just because it’s the popular thing to do. Everyone loved Dunga when the team destroyed Argentina in the Copa final. Did you even watch the tournament? Argentina looked like gods and Brasil looked bad in losing their first game but got stronger as the Copa progressed. Remember, Dunga has a talented squad but there are a lot of players who are average. By average, I mean they are undistinguished in this squad. This squad has no Ronaldo or Rivaldo to lean on nor do we have a back four as good as 1994. Dunga may not be a genius like some previous national team coaches but I like his style and intent. Hopefully, the players will come together in top form and win for him. This team needs to prove to the world in South Africa that they are the best. Right now, I see them as contenders, favorites, but not head and shoulders the best as in 2002. Let’s give Dunga a chance (and of course the players) and see what happens.

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By Bruno Romani | September 8th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

what a victory does. now everybody loves the man. not me. he is not a coach. he is an intern with a lot of luck.

By mike | September 8th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

dunga will always have critics…but anybody who downplays the hard fought victory yesterday is a brazil (or dunga) hater and their comments are worthless.

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By Bruno Romani | September 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

wothless? before you were even thinking of “do i like soccer?” I was already going to stadiums in Brazil.

By Josimars | September 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am

Don’t be so hard on Mr Romani. He has nade some very good points and some people will never like the style of Dunga because he is a pragmatist. However when he played for Brazil we seldom lost. I remember the time in 1998 when he screamed at Bebeto for not doing his job by standing near the ball when an opponent gets a freekick to prevent them taking a quick one. You have seen Argentina punish opponents with that many times. However while I agree with Bruno on some of the points he has made. I disagree on some things and thats what make this game so interesting.

By sandman | September 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

I’m scratching my head seeing how Brazil had become recently. I look at Brazil as an asset for the entire football world because they are the only team that is good and entertaining to watch. I saw the Brazil-Chile match and I don’t even know what team Brazil is anymore. Their defense was clearly not good enough to stop great offensive team, they never possesed the ball, and their offense is a total mess. Please just look at all three goals, first one was a set piece, you can’t really say that second goal was from a good playmaking, third one, Fabiano just simply outphysiqued the defender. None of them are from good plays. The biggest asset that Brazil has is they have tons of playmakers with good ballhandling and they try to play like Italy???

I root for Brazil for a entertainment, tradition, AND result altogether. If I want to see a blue collar football, I’ll root for Italy.

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By dave | September 9th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

hey bruno, dont be a soccer snob…arrogant people like you give the beautiful game a bad name… In italy soccer is called calcio, in brazil it is FUTEBOL in germany fussball so what if in the states its called soccer…your argument shows you are of low intelligence and dont have any facts to back up your empty words..big deal you were going to stadiums in brazil…i was going to stadiums in england where SOCCER was born…

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By tim | September 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Better to play like brazil and defeat teams 3-0 than to to play “empty football” like argentina and chile - great midfield play, ZERO end product. Very soon all of s.america will copy brazil’s style of play and if they dont they will just keep getting thrashed by brazil…either way its win-win for brazil football…CMON DUNGA!!!

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By redneckdude | September 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

yeah i agree with all the comments here who support this style of brazil play…much better than loser teams like argentina or chile…and before some idiot says “oh yeah, well arg defeated brazil at the olympics” SO WHAT? what is the olympic football tournament? for kids…its not even FIFA sanctioned…however brazil TWICE beat the crap outta argentina in Fifa tournaments…so Brazil are on the right track and idiots like bruno should either write sense or keep their dumb comments in their bedroom.

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By Bruno Romani | September 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

yeah dave, thanks for not getting the point. the idea is: my talk about brazilian soceer is not “worthless” like you said because i watch more of it in one week than you do in one year. if the dunga supporters think this is great, maybe they don’t remember the 1990 cup, which were playing pragmatic soccer just like now. and what did we get from that cup? massive ass whopping from argentina. and yes, another proof that english soccer is not good for your health.

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