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July 9th, 2010 | 
Author: Brasil acts like they should been awarded the World Cup before it was even played.
This is sad but true.
Many from Brasil think the World Cup is their birthright.
Wrong!
Brasil has won five of the nineteen World Cups that have been played to date. Italy has won four. Germany has won three. Argentina and Uruguay have two each while France and England have won one a piece.
The nineteenth World Cup winner will be either Spain or the Netherlands.
Brasil played well in the 2010 World Cup. The team was young. Many of them have never played in real nut cutting time matches. This showed when Mello did the good old leg stomp on a Dutch player.
Mello was frustrated because he stepped in front of keeper Julio Cesar and knocked the ball into his own goal.
About twenty minutes later, the Brasilian “D” fell asleep on a corner kick. The ball went from one Dutch head to another and then into the back of the net.
The truth is this Brasil played the famous statute “D”.
No one reacted. They were cemented to their spots.
Wham, bam, boom, Wesley Sneijder’s header in the 73rd minute sealed Brasil’s doom.
Instead of sucking it up, Brasil quit.
They played individual ball instead of team ball.
Even with a man down Brasil still had a few chances to tie this sucker up.
A real championship team knows how to comeback when the odds are stacked against them.
Joe Montana and his San Francisco 49ers in the 1980 NFC Championship game against Dallas came back and beat the Cowboys to advance to the Super Bowl.
Joe Montana drove the 49ers the length of the field in the final two minutes to win that sucker.
Joe Montana is the greatest money player in NFL history.
How about John Elway and The Drive against Cleveland.
How many folks remember this game?
The Houston Oilers jumped out to 32-point halftime lead only to have Jim Kelly lead the Bills to an improbable win in the 1993 NFL Playoffs.
The Bills won 41-38.
Buffalo made it to the Super Bowl where they lost to Dallas.
There was no quit in this dog.
It is easy to play great when you are winning but the real test comes when you have to come from behind and win.
Brasil and the guys folded like a cheap tent.
Is this the fault of the Dunga or the players?
Both.
Neither knew how to react when they saw the Dutch come back from a one-goal deficit to lead 2-1.
To come from behind takes mental toughness and the will to win and overcome no matter what.
This is not the South American way.
Yes, Brasil came back against an inferior American squad in the 2009 Confederations Cup but when it counted, they quit.
Hard words but true.
Should Dunga have been fired?
No!
Brasil is at least two players away from being a championship team.
Brasil does not have a money player.
This means a Joe Montana type.
The idiots who are in charge of the CBF think they know it all.
If coaching is easy let them do it.
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Tags: Brasil, De Futebol, De Futebol Brasil, Dunga, Futebol, Jim Kelly, Joe Montana, John Elway, World Cup | 
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