Pre-match: Copa do Mundo 2018, Quartas-de-Final: Brasil vs. Bélgica, 6 de Julho de 2018

NO WAY !!
And Brasil CBF would never ever agree to a foreign coach.

 

Yep, few years back.

 

I felt like his positioning in the goal from Switzerland and the OG yesterday were pretty bad. Not his fault but defintely preventable.

Are you ok with him continuing on as #1 or do you think Ederson should be given a chance...

Pretty sure they did. There will never be a foreign manager. And to be honest, Pep allegedly has an alienating personality. Can't see that working well with CBF and a national team setting where you can't just ignore a good player or trade him away for someone else.

 

this is happening to us on perhaps a slightly less catastrophic scale.

Re-Instate a Lei do Passe!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...osman-ruling-dutch-football-champions-league/

 

Asia is lucky for us. I am keeping my fingers crossed for 2022.
I think we have seen a degraded version of neymar in this wc. He was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Its a Pity that at the age of 26 he is not mature enough. I also want to say that we have to nurture more of Brazilian based players and maybe reinvent the indigenous style of play rather than follow the European style. 2022 may see the rise of vinicius junior as a star.

 

Alisson did nothing wrong this tournament. I can’t really say anything negative about most of our players with a few exceptions.

Neymar wasn’t even a 100% but did okay IMO but it seems a lot of neutrals hated Brazil solely because of his antics and nonsense. It’s possible the refs swallowed there whistle at times for this very same reason. We tolerated that behavior for too long and he deserves criticism for it.

Marcelo had a poor tournament for me. You expect him to struggle defensively but he wasn’t great offensively either.

Gabriel Jesus was almost as bad as Fred but Tite should get some blame for this as well. He let his poor play continue for far too long. He is young and most likely should improves from this.

Paulinho wasn’t that bad but he wasn’t good either. An improvement over 2014 but it’s is not saying much.

 

Isn't this similar to Lei Pelé?

 

we don’t know how a 30 year old Neymar will reach Qatar. He probably won’t be the same player.

As for Alisson, I don’t think he did anything notable for us in this tournament, but I don’t think Ederson is the answer.

 

Yeah cause both Ronaldinho and Robinho were considered not useful when they turned 30 before a World Cup!!

 

Mario Fernandes just saved Russia in overtime lol
Brazil ain't done in WC2018

 

If it goes to penalties Croatia will win

 

I hope.

 

and now he misses a PK...

 

I have my questions about Neymar's character, i.e., is he a serious individual or not? That F*cking hair style in the game against Switzerland gives me some doubts and those stupid tatoos, please no more tatoos. However, I think Neymar will take care of his body and he should be OK for Qatar 22. Also, 30 isn't that old and besides Neymar was not that healthy or in good game shape in Russia. If he is healthy and fit in Qatar he SHOULD be better than in Russia. At least I hope.

 

Way too early 23 for Qatar 2022:

Neymar-Pedro
Paqueta-Malcolm
Arthur-Casemiro
Airton-Jemerson-Marquinhos-Eder
Alisson

Bench:
Ederson, Jean,

Alex Sandro, Bremer, Caio Felipe, Verissimo

Fred, Fabinho, Coutinho

Rodrygo, Jesus, Douglas Costa

 

Another question I have for Tite is: Why take Taison and Fred if you aren't going to use them? Why not take Vinicius Jr. and Rodrygo and give them some World Cup experience? I think that using two team spots to give youth a taste of the World Cup is a good thing. I think Parreira took a 17 year old Ronaldo to USA 94.

 

this is constantly brought up but Ronaldo didn’t play in that World Cup and that spot could have gone to someone who could have instantly helped us with the whole Leonardo thing going down

 

Asinine nonsense from Vickery.

This antiquated notion that Brazil NEEDS to logjam in an armador in the starting XI for tradition’s sake or because “shit it might work” is detrimental to the team and plain stupid.

We outplayed Belgium and couldn’t finish and we’re held back by Tite’s stubborn decisions to keep Jesus and Willian in.

 

But why the football jingoism?

Brazil has always done well when it has worked with others. While there has never been a foreign coach of the national team there has been plenty of examples of outsiders coming to Brazil and influencing the football. Off the top of my head I can think of Béla Guttman at São Paulo with his 4-2-4, clearly influencing Vicente Feola. I think Ondino Vieira also brought this tactic to Vasco?

Or Isidore Kürschner who brought new training methods with him from Europe, working with Flávio Costa, who went on to end a 27 year wait for a Copa América in 1949.

I know this is all old stuff and off topic but it shows navel gazing is just one of the problems within Brazilian football I think.

Anyway, someone like, say, Roberto Martínez would laugh at the idea that a foreigner can’t manage a national team well.