2014 FIFA World Cup™ 3rd Place: Brazil vs Netherlands, pre-game discussion.

I look at them as "free football". I think you could do away with the Miss. Congeniality match and the tournament wouldn't suffer, and I understand why players hate playing for "bronze", but I will always watch and enjoy this game.

 

I'm sure that somewhere on the streets of Brazil, there are several more Neymars, David Luiz's and Oscars, just waiting to be discovered. Or, perhaps more to the point, several Leaos, Toninhos, Cerezos, Dirceus,Edinhos, Juniors, Falcaos.....
If they keep Scolari, Fred, Hulk and Marcelo, someone's got blinders on or they have friends in VERY high places.
In that case, I wouldn't blame Brazilians one bit if they lost interest in the whole thing and turned to something else less screwed up. Off the top of my head, they have excellent volleyballers, skateboarders, surfers and bull riders.

 

Yes,indeed man.And i hope that both teams will do their best.For me it is not important who wins,if Brazil ends up on the third place,i'm ok with it,they deserve it.

I think for now Brazil's greatest nightmare is when Argentina wins against Germany in their own country which is an annoyance for them.They will rather die when this happens.

 

You won't see any of the Dutch stars tomorrow and to be honest I am looking forward to seeing more of the young players. That doesn't mean we aren't playing to win, it is just the reality of the 3rd place match.

 

Apparently things must have been getting out of hand because @bungadiri posted a warning at the top of the forum. You guys be nice and don't use any language your mum wouldn't approve of.

 

I'm looking forward to a good match tonight, though I'll be sure not to place too much hope on that.

Silva will be back on defensive duties, so hopefully that will give Brazil a good boost to help make this a good match to watch.

That said, I'm very curious as to what team van Gaal will field. Oranje has played two consecutive 120-minute matches and will be going in to this match with a day less rest. My guess is De Jong and van Persie will both be rested.



~*~*~Trivia~*~*~
Here's the info on how the payouts look:

1st place: $35 million
2nd place: $25 million
3rd place: $22 million
4th place; $20 million
KO'd @ 1/4finals: $ 14 million
KO'd @ R-16: $9 million
KO'd @ group stage: $8 million

Strange to see that there seems to be such little differences between 3rd and 4th place ($2 million) as well as between those who succeeded and those who failed to pass the group stage ($1 million?).

 

Wait did they change the hour?
I thought the game for 3rd place was at an hour that was 1 hour earlier than the final