Seleção General Discussion, 2018 and beyond

I was at both the 2010 and 2018 US x Brazil games. The 2010 game actually had an official attendance of 77k! I think a lot of that though was it was one of the first events at the stadium.

For the 2018 game, a lot of the blame is on the US team. They called up essentially a youth team. The team didnt even make it to the WC. And, they don't have a permanent coach. So, I think interest from the US perspective was quite low. The game was also on a Friday night.

The attendance for Argentina x Colombia a few days later was also around 35k.

 

Tite also said the spitting incident played a role in his decision not to call him up.

 

If Neymar spits on someone I bet he'd still be captain.

 

Honestly this is some serious BS from Tite about Douglas Costa. Passa a mão na cabeça só de alguns ...

Only saving part is that like I said, it's tough to rely on DC being healthy.

 

I agree on the one hand, but spitting on someone is pretty inexcusable. Even Neymar hasn't done something like that. And when he did get a red card for kicking the ball at that Colombian, he was suspended anyways.

Either way, Costa picked up a knock so there isn't much of a point in calling him up. I'm fine with Malcom getting a look. Costa isn't going anywhere in the end. He'll be back on the team soon enough.

 

Well part of that is that Tite didn't have a full cycle. It's hard to experiment, especially when Brazil struggled a lot in the WCQ in the beginning.

I'm happy with what he's doing now. It's a good mix of veterans and youngsters.

 

O Neto é um bosta. Shock pundit and admits it.

 

Gabriel Jesus starting ?

 

Coutinho on the right ?

 

Arthur should be starting over RA.

 

That chanting from the speaker or whatever it is ... is pretty damn annoying.