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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.
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 For Tostão, Brazilian football has become outdated: "The most classic example of this is that in the last 20 years Brazil has not had a single great midfield player.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 ...
Brazil 1–1 Switzerland, 19 May 1982 Brazil 8–0 China, 10 September 2012 101,670 (vs. Argentina, 23 March 1994) 8–1–0 88% 6 Engenhão: Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Brazil 0–0 Bolivia, 10 September 2008 Brazil 1–0 Peru, 5 July 2021 31,422 (vs. Bolivia, 10 September 2008) 5–1–0 83% 5 Neo Química Arena: São Paulo, SP
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.
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.
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.
The Brazil national football team represents the country of Brazil in international association football. It is fielded by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body of football in Brazil, and competes as a member of CONMEBOL, which encompasses the countries of South America. As hundreds of players have played for the team ...
Marcos Evangelista de Morais (born 7 June 1970), known as Cafu (), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.Widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time, he is known for his pace and energetic attacking runs along the right flank [4] [5] [6] He is the most-capped player for the Brazil national team with 142 appearances.