Don’t Cry and Chupa, Argentina! (Again)
By: Bruno Romani | July 15th, 2007 
More Details on the Crushing of los Hermanos Soon!
Chupa Argentina!
Update
One more time Argentina had the top-stars. One more time Brazil had a B team. And one more time the Brazilian B team was hungrier than the big-names of the rival nation.
Brazil played a mediocre competition, with a mediocre coach, but this Sunday, the players put their hearts in the tips of their boots. Argentineans, who usually are considered brave and restless, could not match the amount of effort put by the famous duo Mineiro-Josué and defenders Juan and Alex. When playing at Corinthians Tevez and Mascherano never won a match against São Paulo of Mineiro and Josué. Today, it was no different.
There was also an aspect of luck. The Gods of football were with Dunga. With 4 minutes, Elano, who was replacing Gilberto Silva, got a long-pass to Júlio Baptista. The beast was called in the last minute to replace Zé Roberto. He dominated the ball and fired it. What a goal!
The early goal forced Argentina into the Brazilian trap. Argentina advanced all players in hopes of getting a tie still on the first-half. The result was lots of space in their defense for the Brazilian counter-attack, which was explored with efficiency. Argentina hit the post, Doni saved a shot, and all the chances for Argentina scoring ended there.
Elano got injured, and for the first-time Dunga made a surprising and efficient substitution. Daniel Alves crossed the ball which the veteran Ayala pushed against his own net. Luck? There was more coming up in the second-half.
Brazil used all the tricks of a side that is used to important matches. Tackled, wasted time, made Argentina nervous with the progression of the clock. Juan and Alex were superb. Maicon and Gilberto either. And now Messi knows who Mineiro and Josué are. Brazil needed to get only one counter-attack right. One!
Before the 25th mark, Vagner Love passed the ball and Daniel Alves again! The replacement of the replacement scored the third. Match was over. Brazil B Champions again! Argentina still in the hiatus of titles! What a dramatic tango…
Brazil won a tournament without a coach, without a reliable goal-keeper, without a striker who scores, without any stars , with a team worse than the one from 2004 and with all the shady people from CBF in control.
Argentina, next time we will send our U-15. This is a promise. Just don’t choke when facing the yellow jersey again.
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Here’s my take on it: “Brazil destroys Argentina to win Copa America; Brazilians welcome Dunga Era II”
A very sweet, surprisingly easy win. Oh, the pain Argentineans are feeling now. How sweet.
–WKW
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What I liked about this game, though… was the heart. Brazil seemed SO incredibly determined and focused out there. That, and I agree with Wolfrum, is what was missing from Germany’s 2006 team.
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Congratulation!!!! Brazil. Salute to the players who played with their heart in that final. Shame on U-20 team and those players who are complaining tired after long season. Hope Dunga don’t be cocky cause still long way to go.
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Great Brazilian Victory! Despite not playing brilliant soccer, it showed heart and will to win. Doni was great. All the defensive system played awsomely. Mineiro and Josué did wonderful protecting and antecipatory moves. The transition worked. Julio Batista scored a great goal. Daniel Alves another great one.
To put it simply : Brazil applied defensive pressure and did great on the counter-attacks.
The Argentineans play great soccer when they have some space - and Brazil didn´t allowed any.
Sorry for them. Great for us (Yes, I´m Brazilian).
They´re still great players (Boca Juniors is one of the greatest teams around) yet Brazil had the better team.Posted from
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I think you are a little too harsh on our team Bruno..
this team is more disceplined than the team of wc 2006..
i swear i’d take this team over the one parriera took to the wc. and dunga as the coach..
that’s what i wanted to say..
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First of all I wanna say Im eternally gratefull to the Brazilian “B” team for that PERFECT final game and the victory. But still one has to dream.
My Ideal Brazilian “A” Team.
Forward: Robinho, Adriano (not that good lately but better than Wagner Love)
Offensive Mid: Ronaldinho, Kaka (come on, give the guys a brake, they are in fact the 2 best players in the world)
Def Mid: Josue, Mineiro (did u see that final?????)
Sides: Gilberto (I just love him), Cicinho (I know Daniel Alves is great, but have u seen Cicinho play?)
Def: Juan (Undisputable and in my opinion Captain), Lucio
GK: Dida (one of the very few that had a decent WC 2006)Please post your thoughts about it and give your Ideal Brazil team.
“England invented football, Brazil showed how it should be played”.
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Hi Sam…
my ideal team is very similar to yours…Rogerio Ceni
Cicinho
Lucio
Juan
GilbertoMineiro
Josue
Ze Roberto
KakaRonaldo (yes)
Robinhowhere’s ronaldinho? on the bench, of course.
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coach: Felipao
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Hello Bruno. It´s good to know that I have a similar ideal team to the one a person who knows a lot about Brazilian football like you would choose.
Even though I think Ronaldo is one of the best strikers ever, I wouldn´t choose him cause I think his time has passed. That´s one of the reasons I think the WC2006 team failed. A lot of old players like R. Carlos, Emerson, and specialy CAFU. And even though I don´t think Ronaldo is in this guilty group, I would not choose him in the new team. Not that I like Adriano a lot eather.
I think we need a new young striker. A hungry one (like u said). Not Vagner Love please!!! By the way, how is Nilmar doing this days????The other thing that called my atention was that u placed 3 defensive midfielders (Josue, Mineiro and Ze Roberto who by the way quited the Brazil team) and only one Offensive one to pass the balls (Kaka). Wouldn´t this make the team too defensive??
Last but not least the Ronaldinho issue.
I totaly respect your opinion that his not doing well in the N.T. I don´t think he did a good job in WC2006. But…
Don´t you think he did a great job in WC2002 and Confederation Cup 2005? That was only 2 years ago.I think he is right now the best and most capable player in the world. Maybe what they need to do is adjust the team to his lead. Like in Barcelona. My opinion anyway.
By the way I would also love Felipao back.
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ok sam, so let’s do it like Jack, The Ripper and go by parts.
i know ze roberto quited the team, but this is a ideal situation, no? =)
anyway, my choice for him is based on how he was playing at santos. More advanced on the pitch, almost as a classic playmaker. with that he could work on the left portion with the field with gilberto, setting Kaka-free on the right side. Also, with him, there could be a variation of Kaka playing without any worries of defending, but still having someone with a good pass and technique. Also with Mineiro, Josue and Ze Roberto, the two side-backs could have lots of freedom to help the forwards, instead of playing like defenders. Cicinho at Sao Paulo and Gilberto at Gremio played like this. I believe that with Josue and Mineiro, Cicinho would grow a lot again, given they were used to play together.
Now, the argument to justify ronaldo in and ronaldinho out is the same. I believe in players that grow in important moments and players that disappear in such important moments. Ronaldo is the man who grows, no matter how he is. If he is in shape he is as good, or better, than Adriano, Ricardo Oliveira, Fred, Luis Fabiano (players that I think could be with the NT). Even in the mediocre match against France, who was the only one trying to shoot?
Ronaldinho, on the other hand, disappears. the guy is amazing. With Barcelona. I don’t think he is reliable and he puts too much pressure on himself to be the best. That screws his game.
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On a different note, with Felipao, we could have the team playing on 3-5-2, just like in 2002.
then, you could have a third defender playing with lucio and juan (naldo, alex…), have gilberto and cicinho way advanced with josue and mineiro in the middle.
ronaldinho or kaka as the playmaker (like rivaldo in 02), and robinho and ronaldo. (yes i think we need a real number 9). I can’t see the offensive trio with kaka, ronaldinho and robinho.
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Yeah. I see what you´re saying. And I totally agree w u. But I´d give Dinho another chance at the NT. After all, he did grow in 02 against England with that amazing goal and he finished Argentina in Confederation 05. I just hope I can see him in yellow again.
That being said, I just wanna say that I´m really really happy with the side-backs we have or could have right now. I´m talking about Cicinho and Gilberto.
I think that in todays football this position is key to winning or loosing games. I was worried that when R. Carlos and Cafu got old (as they clearly did), Brazil would have a set back with the replacements, but this hasn´t happened.
I´ve seen the France game over and over and I think it was a totally different game the last 15 min when Cicinho got in. I wonder what would´ve happened if got in the 2nd have instead. In fact I thought then and still think it would have been a totally different WC if Parreira had started with the team u and I are talking about. I mean, our “ideal” team was almost the same team that played Japan. And this was the only display of good brazilian football I saw in all the WC. It was also almost the same team that won Confederation 05.Posted from
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