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Thus, since the mid-1990s, Brazilian football began to lose its characteristics. For Tostão, Brazilian football has become outdated: "The most classic example of this is that in the last 20 years Brazil has not had a single great midfield player. And this happened because there was a division in the midfield between the midfielders, who play ...
2002 World Cup winning Brazil national football team airplane in Brazilian team livery. Fuelled by the "Three R's" (Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho), Brazil won its fifth championship at the 2002 World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan. Brazil beat all three opponents in group play in South Korea and topped the group.
Charles William Miller, the son of a railway company employee, is widely credited as the "father of Brazilian football". Miller, who was born in Brazil, went to England to study at Banister Court School. There, he became an admirer of football and in 1894, when he returned to Brazil, he brought with him two balls in his suitcase.
The first Brazil national team ever, 1914. Brazil's first match at home against Exeter City in 1914.. It is generally believed that the first game of the Brazil national football team was a 1914 match between a Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo select team and the English club Exeter City, held in Fluminense's stadium.
Records in this section refer to (Level 1) i.e. Taça Brasil from its founding in 1959 through to 1968, the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa from its founding in 1967 through to 1970, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão from 1971 to the present.
Anglo-Brazilian Charles Miller introduced Brazil to football association rules to Brazil in 1894 upon his return from England, where he attended college and discovered the sport, and it soon became popular in the country. In 1902 Miller helped to organize the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (current Campeonato Paulista), Brazil's first football league.
The Confederation of Brazilian Football (Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira de Futebol; CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as Federação Brasileira de Sports , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separated from other ...
Brazilian football champions are the winners of the highest league in Brazilian football, which since 1971 is considered the national championship. In 2010, the Brazilian Football Confederation additionally recognized the winners of the Taça Brasil (1959–68) and the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1967–70) as Brazilian football champions l. It has also briefely recognized the controversial ...