Brazil Friendly NT matches 2012

Dunga Brazil I think would of beaten them. Mano Brazil have the overall talent to beat them but don't convince me enough to believe they can beat Spain.

Spain can be beaten. Spain plays slow boring tiki-taka football. Portugal gave Spain alot of trouble and if CR7 had a good forward like a Benzema they would have easily scored. With the Brazil NT we have Neymar,Hulk and sometimes Damiao. That is why we needs to play the 4-3-1-2 to flood the midfield. Brazilian football has always been pace,speed,dribble,penetration in the box. Spain is slow passing,probing,find an opening and attack. To beat them you need to have a solid defense,flood the midfield to get the ball back and have two forwards with speed and strength to breakdown Spain's defense.

To beat you have to score first.

2012 version of Spain can be beaten by many teams including Brazil.They are not anything special anymore.And painfully boring to watch.
Their time at the top is almost near the end, whether they win the euro or not.

You maybe right ... and I do think this young Brazil side could score against Spain in first 60minutes ... well I hope

Most important thing is that Neyar, Lucas, Oscar Ganso need to go to play in Europe big teams - to learn more of the pressure handling , tactics of big games and tricks in play from big coaches, players there - the sooner the better

Why? Besides the above obvious "experiences" mentioned in bold, history says that ONLY Brazil could have won WC with their main players playing in big clubs of Europe (Romario, Bebeto, Dunga, Ronaldo Rivaldo Ronaldinho...) Rivelino , Alemao, Zico Socrates FAILED while they play inside Brqazil in their time! Didi, Pele and Garrincha were way off in the past when the games were just EVEN from SA to Europe back then!

That thing though no one has beaten them in the Euro's. They have been painful to watch for about 2 years but it hell of effective. Score 1 goal and just pass for 90 mins. I definitely think we can beat them but we are not ready yet as of right now IMO. There still some kinks that need to be work out. We need to get organized, we need a define system, we need a balance lineup and of course get better defensively.

Spain wins the Euro's again in spectacular fashion. The commentator was saying how Spain would fare against the 1970 Brazil team. How short people memory are. The team we had in 96-99 would have given them a run for there money. There defense would get a hell of a test with prime Ronaldo.

I know. People are all of sudden have underrated Brasil know. People say we are overrated,samba is crap, or worse that Brasil time on the sun is gone. Let them underrate the boys in yellow and blue and they will see what happens. We are waiting and preparing. The world may forget about brasil but we will be back with a vengeance. We have alot of young guys who will shine in 3-5 years. The new era of brasil is coming back.

well Spain did put a fantastic game in attack (surprisingly) against the "naive" tactic of Italy (fully open at the back in first 30minutes) ...

Imagine they will face off with prime Ronaldo running off from midfield and play 1 and 2 with Romario ? Not even mention of Pele + Tostao + Jairzinho and Rivelino ... Goshh

We are underrate now b/c in general people keep comparing the current team to teams in the past. Which I have always stated to be unfair cause the previous bar was set high.

I am so damn sick of hearing comparisons between this Spain team to Brasil's '70 team, or Barcelona's team to Santos '62 team. All a bunch of crap.
How in the ******** can you compare Rivelino, Gerson, Jairzinho, Tostao, and oh yeh, Pele, to a Xavi/Inesta/Fagregas? Pure crap.

I know FIFA world rankings are total crap but it looks we fell to 11th place. The reason I mention this is because people are seriously underrating us. LOL. I sort of like it like that. It puts the pressure off the Selecao a bit.

What pressure does it put off??
It is our undeniable, undisputed obligation to win the 2014 World Cup.

Thats why I think Brasil, even if they don't progress/develope as much as we all would like in 2 years, still has just as good of a shot as anyone to win the Copa. Its a competetion where luck and peaking at the right time makes all the difference.

And am I the only one that thinks England is completely overated and should never even be discussed on the level of other contenders? In my opinion Portugal and various other teams in Europe and SA are head and shoulders above them in terms of talent and production.

That is true. I was having a discussion with a Portuguese friend of mine he said the same thing. Spain has beaten every team major European power in the last 4 years. Since Zidane left France have been shaky. Holland the land of total football was total garbage at this years Euros. Italy did better then anybody expected but that match with Spain hurt them alot. Their defense was terrible.Germany seems to have a team that is deadly but is slowly becoming the Holland of old. You know play good in qualification and group stages but choke at the elimination rounds. Portugal could beat Spain but they lack a striker which will always hinder them. Without CR7 and Nani Portugal is an average team.Argentina has good offensive but their defense is STILL weak! Their full squad conceded 3 goals from an U-23 Brasil team.

The main them is the big teams have fallen of their ways it seems. Italians complain that the team is playing a game that is far from the hard defense Italian way. Dutch fans complain Holland is not playing total football. Germans complaining Germany is not playing the same dominant force like the old German teams. The Portuguese are still complaining they have no striker. The french are looking for the next Zidane. The Argies have good forwards,better then average midfield and a defense that makes QPR's defense look elite. So we are at an usual time in football. However I think by 2014 there will be balance in the football. Spain is at its golden era but they are slowly declining.

It Spain then a big gap with Germany possibly second and then everybody else around the same level. Spain are very good and are one of the best NT ever but they also are dominating in a weaken Era of international futbol.

The mid 90's to early 2000's the gap wasn't so big in international futbol. Argentina, Italy, France, Brazil, Holland and you can even add Portugal who had there golden generation at the time all with the potential teams that could win the world cup.

Well to be frank ... Brazil NT now lost quite a few games vs strong opponents (Germany, France, and Argentina ...) while only won over "crap" sides ... so FIFA ranking is not as bad

Like Kaka10725 said the bar was set a bit too high (inside Brazil) vs older eras ... and rightly so ... Brazil with Ronaldo (and Romario) were ALWAYS #1 = 9times /12 years span in FIFA, from 94-05 (bar 2 years 2000-01 when Ronaldo was OFF) . Plus the fact we always lack of GOOD coach (with good tactics to compensate for the quality of players, and playing style)

With the CORE of this young sides, plus a "new" caoch I believe we'll do well in next WC, especially AT HOME

rumors of Brazil to play Libya in Libya in order to improve relations between the two countries...

China in Recife on 10th September confirmed

Link

http://globoesporte.globo.com/pe/no...za-jogo-do-brasil-contra-china-no-recife.html

At least there will be a crowd......