by Axé Brasil on 08 Sep 2008, 19:58
Ed,
The Arg x Par result was good indeed, but what really made my day was to see "Cabrito Fezes" receiving a red card at home from a brazilian ref, heheheh. Now serious, let's be real, Argentina has a fantastic upfront line with Messi, Riquelme and Maradona's son-in-law Aguero, but the deffence sucks big time, beginning from the GK, even the defence that Dunga calls is better tahn the hermanos'.
About Brasil, great result, but it is worrying since people may think "oh, it was just a matter of attitude" , and it isn't, Brasil has serious technical and tactic problems, Dunga isn't a coach, for the simple fact that he doesn't train the team. I think you don't know , but Dunga "trained" this team for two days, in one of them he released the players from the afternoon train(as he usually does). In both trainings, he used the same players, he didn't change to test a single option for the starting lineup. And let's be real, Chile was an adversary a little bit more dangerous than the wind, same as Bolivia in the next game. Of course the players have talent, and they were challenged t show it by the chilean press, players, the brazilian press and even Lula made deserved critics to the recent performances of the seleção.
The Selecão has a precious asset that this CBF direction seems to don't give a damn at : the admiration and the respect our jersery imposes. Take a look at this board and there are people from all over the world that supports Brasil as if is their native land team; now I can imagine Palo getting ashamed telling his kids: !Hey, niños, let's support this team because they are the best in the world" , and then they see Dunga's team playing....it is easier to keep the children believing in Santa Claus.
"It´s knife in the skull"