Comments on: Winners

By: shahita

shahita — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:48:27 +0000

Am not a Brazilian but who said Brazil left Joga Bonita. Check goal # 2 and 3. The goals and the build up build up were played in a way of Joga Bonita.

Joga Bonita is still alive and well in Brazil. It is only being used as needed. Dunga only added an extra defensive layer to the team. Brazil is more complete than ever before thanks to Dunga. The man is now starting to gain the respect of all his critics.

The best is yet to come.

By: Jagan Da

Jagan Da — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:46:10 +0000

Congradulations Brazil. Long live Dunga era. See you at the world cup. Take care. JNT

By: yeah

yeah — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:11:57 +0000

Hey what the hell happen to your Sub 20 team? Isn’t that suppose to be the the future of brazil?. Your luck is going to run out pretty soon =)
cheers from England

By: Euler

Euler — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:56:54 +0000

Thanks Dude, Anand, Al and Ruben for you comments.

Anand, maybe you are right. Some of you don’t are trolls, but believe me, the ones that are can be really nasty.

Ruben, I know the Mexican people have a special relationship with our Canarinho team since 1970, when Brazil won with that magical team. For that you can be sure Brazilians share very nice feelings towards Mexico, your people and your team. I can only thank the sport for this brotherhood feeling.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:54:15 +0000

Congratulation Brazil for the Copa America Championship, I am Mexican, and we always defend and cheers for Brazil. I am proud of you guys. Go Brazil!!!!

By: al

al — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:17:44 +0000

well said. I am tired of the argentinians thinking they are as you put “a gift to humanity” I guess the old saying by that economist remains true: “the best business in latin america is to purchase argentinians for what they are really worth and selling them back to their country for what they think they are worth”

their inferiority complex is theirs to deal with and not brazil’s problem. if we look at the press and the fans attitudes we see that in brazil the media refers to argentinians as “brothers” and the fans celebrate but not in the low class that many argentinian fans do like dancing over the brazilian flag? and the media in argentina making poor taste jokes about brazil. brazilians care about the game whether it is against argentina or germany but the argentinians when it comes to playing brazil well they let their inferiority complex come out in full force and that is pathetic. they should remember the words of their own writer ingenieros when he said that “envy is a slap in the cheek and true tribute to the other party’s merit” so thank you argentina for in your envy you make brazil’s win even bigger.

By: anand

anand — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:03:14 +0000

No comments..but congratulations..you certainly were the better team on the day.
As for fanatic fans, we take the blame for our own sufferings. We prefer to be in our glass houses of the dream world…coz we tend to be romantics at heart…it may sound childish and silly to many, but hey thats the way we are and I guess we are used to being the second fiddle now and hope one day there will be a change of wave.

But surprising, how easily the Brazilians accept victory over the heart and laughter of the soul…will you be doing the same when you play in the beaches of rio?

Also, there were very very few comments posted disrespecting Brazil. So please dont generalize the entire fanbase.

By: thedude

thedude — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:22:00 +0000

Brazil deserved to win that match. Dunga won because he had a proper strategy – play hard, physical football and frustrate the playmakers of Argentina. Basile had no strategy, he thought he could win just by how he was playing throughout the tournament, and didn’t anticipate any strategy from Brazil.

Yes, it was “ugly”, but it’s a lot more beautiful to the fans to see their team hoist the trophy over their heads. Winning is beautiful, and it’s very beautiful to see a winning strategy executed so perfectly.

The problem with “beautiful football” is that many times, it is not disciplined. Argentina always tries to make one too many passes, and Brazil used to do this too. Most important is putting the ball in the back of the net, not making 25 straight one-touch passes.

Congratulations Brazil on a well-deserved victory.