Brazil left the World Cup so early, inspite everybody’s vote of confidence. What happened? What went wrong?

What went wrong?
As the coach and his players reflect on the tournament, they will find it difficult to put their finger on what went so wrong for the Seleção. While the media will endeavour to find scapegoats, the […]

Roberto Carlos has decided he will retire form international football. He actually retired from the national squad.

“On the Brazilian national team, my story has ended,” he said on his official website.
“I want to open space for new blood. I hope I can give this number six jersey to someone who might carry on this […]

Brazil’s legend Tostao talks about the World Cup and Brazil’s result.

FIFAworldcup.com: Briefly, how would you sum up Brazil’s performance against France?
Tostao: Brazil played very badly and the result was more than fair. Brazil got their game-plan wrong and stood off the French. The midfield sat very deep and gave (Zinedine) Zidane, (Patrick) Vieira and […]

Brazil newspapers were quite mild on critics on their teams’ result at the World Cup.

The country’s biggest newspaper, the Folha de São Paulo, chose to highlight the Seleção’s latest disappointment against France with the headline “Once again France send Brazil home”. The best-selling Brazilian daily read: “Parreira tinkered with the side but to no […]

Brazil fans are crying after elimination of the Selecao in the World Cup. They had so many hopes, but Brazil failed miserably. And, more depressing, to France, yet again.

Many Brazilian fans blamed the coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, for not playing more of his young reserve players once it became clear the veteran squad was […]

Carlos Alberto PARREIRA (BRA)
I’m very sad, and so are the team. Getting knocked out was a situation that we hadn’t prepared for. We started the game well, and our passing was sharp. But our attackers always found it difficult, because France, just like the other teams that we have played, got all of their […]

Henry scored an important goal and has bring his team to the last 4. More, this would bring him on 3 goals, 2 less than Klose, the leader of the goalscorers in the tournament. Ronaldo, the all-time goal-scorer in the World Cups, is out and going home.

France’s No.12 had previously found the target both […]

Of course, obvious for anybody that have seen the match, Zinedine Zidane has been selected man of the match,

Zindedine Zidane turned back the clock and showed the form that won him three FIFA World Player of the Year awards as he led France to a 1-0 quarter-final victory over Brazil in Frankfurt.
‘Zizou’, who was recognized […]

France got through with a great performance, while Brazil disappointed all of us. What will the players say?

Zinedine Zidane (FRA), Budweiser Man of the match
We kept things tight and closed ranks. Physically, we were able to keep going until the end and we’ve come away with a deserved victory once again. Now, we’re going to […]

As you would expect, Brazilian press was not too happy with the final World Cup result.

“Brazil go out of the Cup playing sad football,” said the online version of Lance sports daily.
Folha Online saluted Zidane.
“Again Zidane stood foursquare in our way with France.”
For O Globo: “Brazil lost to France to see the dream of a […]