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    SQUAD NUMBERS!!

    Confira a numeração dos 23 integrantes do grupo da Seleção:

    1 - Jefferson
    2 - Daniel Alves
    3 - Thiago Silva
    4 - David Luiz
    5 - Fernandinho
    6 - Marcelo
    7 - Hulk
    8 - Paulinho
    9 - Fred
    10 - Neymar Jr
    11 - Oscar
    12 - Julio César
    13 - Dante
    14 - Maxwell
    15 - Henrique
    16 - Ramires
    17 - Luiz Gustavo
    18 - Hernanes
    19 - Willian
    20 - Bernard
    21 - Jô
    22 - Victor
    23 - Maicon

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    http://www.espnfc.us/fifa-world-cup/...key-for-brazil

    Oscar is the real key for Brazil
    Oscar's creativity will be instrumental in the host nations' bid for a record sixth World Cup title.

    A recent survey of Brazilian social media showed that Neymar was getting many more mentions on the Twitter-sphere than all of the rest of the Brazil team put together, including high-profile, charismatic coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.

    Of total mentions, Neymar had something like 65 percent. The rest were all reduced to scraps, tiny percentages -- and well down the list of these also-rans was midfielder Oscar, which seems like a tremendous injustice.

    Neymar, of course, is the undoubted poster boy of the 2014 World Cup, the young man whose individual brilliance is supposed to carry his country to victory. He is the team's most potent weapon in the last 30 metres of the field. Oscar, meanwhile, has an equally important role to play over a much wider area of the pitch. The slender build and sloping shoulders of the Chelsea youngster belie the fact that this is a player who is important to Brazil over a broad, vital range.

    The Chelsea midfielder is three in one. He can drop back to pick up possession from the centre-backs and orchestrate play from deep. Higher up the field he can slip his passes through the opposing defence and put the strikers through on goal, and he can also run beyond the strikers and score the goals himself. It is this versatility that makes him so important.

    Tostao, the great from Brazil's 1970 team and perhaps the brightest man ever to pull on the famous yellow shirt, laments the separation of functions that has taken place in the Brazilian midfield over the past 25 years. Much of this had to do with the premature elimination of Brazil's wonderful 1982 World Cup side, with one of the most ball-playing midfields ever assembled on a football pitch. In response, future Selecao sides decided to protect themselves, and, as Tostao wrote recently, "the midfield in Brazil was divided into the 'volantes' (defensive midfielders) who mark and the 'meias' who attack," with a consequent loss of fluidity. The ball has never moved through the team as smoothly as it did in 1982.

    Oscar helped Brazil claim the 2013 Confederations Cup. Can he now help them claim the cup that really matters? Oscar helped Brazil claim the 2013 Confederations Cup. Can he now help them claim the cup that really matters?

    The organic unity of the team has been affected by this separation of midfield functions. Oscar's capacity to skip all over the pitch offers a solution to this problem, one that is likely to be especially important in a World Cup on home soil. In recent times Brazil have developed an obsession with the counter-attack. This June and July, though, most of the opponents will seek to pull men behind the ball, making it hard for Brazil to launch their favourite weapon. Passing fluidity will be vital, and Oscar is the man to supply it. Providing, of course, he is fit to do so. Oscar's late season form has been questioned, not least by his own club manager, Jose Mourinho.

    Scolari has made it abundantly clear that he could hardly care less about the form of his players at club level. If the likes of Oscar, Paulinho and Neymar are being criticized, this is a concern for Chelsea, Tottenham and Barcelona, respectively. He does not have the slightest worry about the ability of these players to carry out their functions in the different, collective context of the Brazil side. But, at the end of the draining European club season, he is very concerned about the players' fitness. Will they physically be capable of operating at the level required? Oscar is a specific fear here because he has been playing so much football.

    In the 2011 close season he made his name for Brazil in the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia, scoring all three goals in the final against Portugal. A year later he played in the Olympics in England, moving straight on to Chelsea without a break. And there was no opportunity to rest last year because of the Confederations Cup. Might Oscar be too jaded to perform well now that the World Cup has come around?

    When the squad meet up in the hills outside Rio on May 26th, the most important man present will be Paulo Paixao, Brazil's physical preparation specialist. Twelve years ago Ronaldo was not making progress recovering from his injury with Inter Milan. Barcelona said that Rivaldo would also not be able to play in the World Cup. Paixao and his staff got them both fit. And while players from other teams who had played the European season were running on empty, the likes of Cafu and Roberto Carlos were charging up and down the flanks like men possessed.

    Paixao -- and Brazil's culture of physical preparation -- played an absolutely vital role in Brazil's fifth World Cup win. The biggest contribution he can make to win number six to ensure that Oscar is firing on all cylinders between June 12th and July 13th.

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    wat a transformation of the brazil national team.... they have to project oscar as their main creative player.. wat a journey (downward...) .............. no wonder brazil does not have that fan following nowadays...

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    Quote Originally Posted by moovybuf View Post
    wat a transformation of the brazil national team.... they have to project oscar as their main creative player.. wat a journey (downward...) .............. no wonder brazil does not have that fan following nowadays...
    Football has changed over the years..Can you name one Number 10 in the mould of Zico,maradonna or Zidane in world football today??Last of those breeds were Valderama and Riqulme from South America.
    Tell me the name of any one classic Number 10 playing in any of the national teams? Ozil ,Modric and Oscar are the prominent ones in World football today.But they all depend upon collective strength than individual brilliance.After the 1982 debacle Brazil has changed their system to inlude more Volante's ...Thtat's what gave them 1994 and 2002 WC including 98 final.When they tried to be more attack minded they had no balance and they collapsed in 2006.In 2002 they actually dropped the more attacking minded Juninho Paulista and introduced Kleberson halfway through the tournament to obtain that balance.In 1994 they dropped RAI and introduced Zinho after the first match and went on to win the tournament.

    It's just your assumption that Brazil's fan following has diminished. How can you quantify it? Brazil NT is the most loved NT across the globe.Most of the neutrals across the globes Brazil is the second favorite footballing nation after of course their home country.

    Oscar will be important when they play against attack minded teams , because he excels in high pressing and high intensity games which Scolari uses against attack minded opponents. .Everything boils down to fitness anyways.
    I still have reservations against how this team is going to play against teams who will play with 11 players on their own half or the so called bunker teams.
    Oscar's strength is in his contribution to the defensive side of the game.That's why coaches like Scolari and Mourinho likes him.It's not becuase of any fancy dribbles, mazy runs or audacious skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nettooran View Post
    Football has changed over the years..Can you name one Number 10 in the mould of Zico,maradonna or Zidane in world football today??Last of those breeds were Valderama and Riqulme from South America.
    Tell me the name of any one classic Number 10 playing in any of the national teams? Ozil ,Modric and Oscar are the prominent ones in World football today.But they all depend upon collective strength than individual brilliance.After the 1982 debacle Brazil has changed their system to inlude more Volante's ...Thtat's what gave them 1994 and 2002 WC including 98 final.When they tried to be more attack minded they had no balance and they collapsed in 2006.In 2002 they actually dropped the more attacking minded Juninho Paulista and introduced Kleberson halfway through the tournament to obtain that balance.In 1994 they dropped RAI and introduced Zinho after the first match and went on to win the tournament.

    It's just your assumption that Brazil's fan following has diminished. How can you quantify it? Brazil NT is the most loved NT across the globe.Most of the neutrals across the globes Brazil is the second favorite footballing nation after of course their home country.

    Oscar will be important when they play against attack minded teams , because he excels in high pressing and high intensity games which Scolari uses against attack minded opponents. .Everything boils down to fitness anyways.
    I still have reservations against how this team is going to play against teams who will play with 11 players on their own half or the so called bunker teams.
    Oscar's strength is in his contribution to the defensive side of the game.That's why coaches like Scolari and Mourinho likes him.It's not becuase of any fancy dribbles, mazy runs or audacious skills.
    Brazil has got these much fan following because of their style of play and of course won the Cup most number of times , Italy just one short but didn't have the fan following anyway near Brazil , Argentina or even Germany.

    Brazil's style has changed over the years , from free flowing attacking football to effective football to win Cups...nobody remembers Brazilian defenders of 60's , 70's , 80's .....from Dunga's Brazil of 1994 ...people used to remember their defenders too...Roberto Carlos , Cafu etc ...

    In 1994 they had Romario - Bebeto
    In 1998 it was Rivaldo - Ronaldo
    In 2002 Ronaldo - Ronaldinho ....and they won it in 1994 & 2002 ...and reached the finals in 1998

    aa oru flair ithavanathe team nu illa ( Cup kittaam kittaathirikkaam ) , Neymar or Oscar may emerge as the player of the tournament ..still Brazil ennu parayumbozhulla aa oru ithu ..that's missing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggs View Post
    Brazil has got these much fan following because of their style of play and of course won the Cup most number of times , Italy just one short but didn't have the fan following anyway near Brazil , Argentina or even Germany.

    Brazil's style has changed over the years , from free flowing attacking football to effective football to win Cups...nobody remembers Brazilian defenders of 60's , 70's , 80's .....from Dunga's Brazil of 1994 ...people used to remember their defenders too...Roberto Carlos , Cafu etc ...

    In 1994 they had Romario - Bebeto
    In 1998 it was Rivaldo - Ronaldo
    In 2002 Ronaldo - Ronaldinho ....and they won it in 1994 & 2002 ...and reached the finals in 1998

    aa oru flair ithavanathe team nu illa ( Cup kittaam kittaathirikkaam ) , Neymar or Oscar may emerge as the player of the tournament ..still Brazil ennu parayumbozhulla aa oru ithu ..that's missing
    Players like Rivaldo or Ronal;dos are born only once in a decade.
    Ronaldinho - If he concentrated on football instead of partying and boozing could have been the heir to Ronaldo and Rivaldo.The same case with Adriano--he was the real heir to Ronaldo .He destroyed his career due to phsycological problems and boozing after his fathers death.So in theory Ronaldinho,Kaka,Maicon,JC and Adriano should have lead Brazil to WC glory in 2006 or 2010.So a generation is wasted right there.
    Oscar,neymar,Lucas etc. are just in their early 20s.I think if they develop properly their time will come in 2018,when they will be in their peak.I am sure that 2018 Brazil WC team will be very exciting with lots of young players reaching their maturity.
    Some exciting talents like Mosquito are going to emerge in the next couple of years.
    Unlike in 2010 and 2006 current team has great depth especially in the midfield.The problem is the inexperience.I hope home advantage will help them overcome the inexperience.

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    brazil 2-0panama HT

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