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Do I have ESPN I mean ESP or what. Not to blow my own horn but hey I have to. Choke City. The Choke Collar. You can cut this seventy-five ways to Sunday I don’t care. Brasil went oh-fer four in a PK shoot out to Paraguay.

Elano, Fred, and Andre Santos missed big time. Wide right twice and Fred spilt the uprights for what would have been a good field goal in the NFL.

Not in futebol.

Paraguay keeper stone cold stopped Brasil’s only shot on goal by Thiago Silva in the PK shootout.

This was worse than horrible.

You know what guys you deserve what you got a big fat bagel.

This is a first for the mighty Brasil.

The hero of this match was Los Guaranies keeper Justo Villar.

He stopped five for sure goals with some death defying acts in the net to send this puppy to the PK shootout.

Two of these suckers were point blank shots on goal via kick save.

Can you say Patrick Roy?

It all came down to this.

Brasil sucks.

Brasileiros futebol is not that good.

Mano Menezes should be fired.

The crowd called for Dunga’s head because he didn’t select Neymar, Pato, Ganso, and the rest.

Dunga’s downfall was that he would not take crap from the press.

He said what was on his mind.

Dunga didn’t kiss their collective asses.

He was the Bobby Knight, Bill Parcels and Bill Belichick of Brasil.

You can now see the folly of the Brasileiros mobs wants and desires.

It comes down to this Brasil is a one sided attack.

Los Guaranies saw this tendency and stacked the deck on the right side of the pitch.

Brasil has to learn the entire pitch.

When Dunga was the boss man Brasil attacked from anywhere on the pitch.

Hey Brasileiros, you got what you wanted a loser for a coach Mano Menezes.

I bet Dunga is laughing his ass off.

UOL wrote this crap- O Brasil jogou bem, pressionou, pressionou, viu o goleiro Justo Villar realizar grandes defesas e não saiu do 0 a 0 com o Paraguai durante os 90 minutos do tempo regulamentar e mais os 30 da prorrogação.

A condição do gramado na arena de La Plata não permitia que a bola rolasse com perfeição, e muitas falhas nos passes foram registradas na etapa inicial (29% de erros dos paraguaios e 18% dos brasileiros).

UOL is too kind with their words. In all honesty Mano Menezes is an idiot for the choices he made in the PK shootout. He didn’t use Robinho or Lucio instead he choose four of the worst PK takers in history.

My grandmother would have done better. She’s been dead since 1976.

Give me a break.

Menezes is clown.

O técnico Mano Menezes reclamou do gramado ruim pelo Brasil ter perdido tantos pênaltis e ter sido eliminado pelo Paraguai nas quartas de final da Copa América. O treinador deu exemplos para defender a tese de que “hoje não era o dia” da seleção na competição.

Mano said he lamented his decision on who took the PK’s.

This guy is an idiot.

Mano lamentou as inúmeras chances perdidas na partida, mas sem querer encontrar culpados. “Hoje não era o dia. Fizemos jogada ensaiada, o Lúcio entrou sozinho e chutou a bola exatamente onde estava o goleiro”, afirmou o treinador, que destacou a evolução da seleção nesta Copa América.

“Penso que é bom ter tranquilidade na hora da análise, pois na hora da derrota a tendência é sempre achar que tudo está ruim. Penso que não esta tudo ruim, pois evoluímos quando pudemos trabalhar um período pela primeira vez”.

Stupid is as stupid does.

I have read several Brasileiros blogs and reports. This idiot from Brasil wrote

O Brasil jogou bem.

Se Neymar e Pato fizessem o trabalho deles direito, especialmente o centroavante. a história da Copa América contaria a história da partida com tranquila e fácil vitória da equipe de Mano.

Como não fizeram, a decisão foi para as penalidades.

E nelas, a seleção tremeu.

If you think was good futebol then you will get your asses handed to again and again.

Four goals in four matches suck.

The only club the mighty Brasil beat was a horrible side from Ecuador.

In this one Ecuador gave Brasileiros all they could handle and then some.

Flamenguista for life.

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Brasil can thank their lucky stars that Paraguay didn’t score that magical third goal in the 78^th minute. Instead the Paraguayans non-chalanted it and this resulted in Fred’s life saving goal in the 90^th minute that gave Brasil a two all tie with Paraguay.

Brasil drew first blood in the 39^th minute.

Jadson dialed up a bomb from just outside the box to give us a 1-0 lead.

I thought good. This is what we needed a goal. Now we’re on the way to the win.

Not on This day.

Paraguay kept the pressure up and scored on a defensive lapse by the Brasileiros side in the 55^th minute.

This goal was typical tick, tack, doe futebol.

Nothing but the back of the net for Roque Santa Cruz.

Los Guaranies added another goal in the 67^th minute.

Nelson Haedo Valdez had an easy walk in goal to give Paraguay the 2-1 lead.

I thought here we go again.

Enter Fred on the pitch for Brasil and the rest is history.

UOL put his way- Foi por pouco. Em uma nova atuação desastrosa, o Brasil se livrou de uma derrota para o Paraguai graças a um gol salvador de Fred, aos 44min do segundo tempo. O jogo terminou 2 a 2, e a equipe de Mano Menezes segue sob risco de dar vexame na Copa América

Brasil and Paraguay both have two points. Ecuador and Venezuela play later on Saturday. If either side wins they will jump to the head of the class in Group B with four points.

Let’s hope for a nil-nil tie.

UOL added- Com o empate, brasileiros e paraguaios somam dois pontos no Grupo B. Na quarta-feira, às 21h45, o selecionado pentacampeão mundial precisa ganhar do Equador para se classificar às quartas de final. Um tropeço pode significar uma eliminação precoce, o que seria um vexame histórico para o país atual bicampeão continental.

Os aficionados brasileiros, minoria no estádio Mario Kempes, em Córdoba, não gostaram do que viram e pediram até por Marta, jogadora eleita por cinco vezes a melhor do mundo.

Mano Menezes também foi alvo dos protestos. O treinador surpreendeu ao sacar o criticado Robinho e apostar em Jadson. O novo titular errava muitos passes e estava mal, quando abriu o placar aos 38min do primeiro tempo.

No intervalo, apesar de ter balançado a rede, Jadson deu lugar a Elano. O Brasil começou a errar demais e chegou a ficar na roda, para delírio dos paraguaios, que dominaram as arquibancadas, graças também ao apoio de argentinos infiltrados.

Look folks Brasil is playing like crap.

Mano Menezes was supposed to return Brasil to their glory days however this guy hasn’t won one major title as a coach.

The club is totally one sided in their attack.

Menezes has Neymar and company attack the right side only.

This allows other clubs to stack the right side of the pitch and thus force the Brasileiros attack to fight through an entire the eleven-man opposition.

The teams “D” is suspect.

These two goals were soft goals.

Paraguay flat out beat the “D”.

Keeper Julio Cesar was hung out to dry both times.

Brasil is very predicable in their attack.

Menezes is coaching against a players natural instincts to attack.

A left side attack would be nice.

Dunga did this with Kaka, Elano, Robinho, and Dani Alves.

The team is missing a quarterback.

This is a guy who distributes to the attacking players so they can score.

Brasileiros doesn’t have a QB who can give Neymar, Fred, and Jadson the ball with the best chance to score.

Hey Menezes how come Robinho road the pines.

You suck as a coach.

I wonder if Dunga is saying, “Do you miss me yet.”

One final parting shot. Dunga didn’t select or play Neymar, Jadson and the rest on the national team because they weren’t ready to perform on the world stage.

They are still not ready to perform on the World Stage.

This stupidity will cost Brasil another World Cup title.

What hurt Brasil in 2010 was Elano getting his knee busted up against Mexico and Kaka getting kicked out for two yellow cards.

This killed Brasileiros chances big time against the Netherlands.

I rest my case.

Brasileiros futebol Association are a bunch of fools.

You deserve what you get.

A clown like Menezes.

Flamenguista for life.

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The 2010 World Cup is in the books. Spain defeated Netherlands 1-0 to win their first title. I was happy for the Spanish side but I was sad Brasil didn’t win.

Spain became the first team lose their opening round match and go onto win the World Cup.

So much for the press template.

A friend of mine at the radio station where I work asked me what did I think about the World Cup.

I told him it was a chippy match. The Dutch played dirty because they couldn’t keep up with Spain’s superior speed.

It was down right dirty futebol. Especially De Jong’s foot to the chest of the Spanish player.

This should have been a straight card.

The ref had his head up his butt on that one.

My friend is a former professional wrestler.

We both are air personalities.

I am the a futebol freak and Seth is a former professional wrestler working together. Then throw into the mix Ross a hockey nut and Dave a straight-laced news guy makes the radio station kinda wild.

The news guy and myself are the only true futebol nuts.

The ESPN idiots and the clowns in the press are having a cow that Rooney, Messi, and Kaka didn’t score.

Rooney entered the World Cup tourney broke down. He was part of the walking wounded. Rooney has been hurting since September 2009.

This is the direct result from playing futebol year round.

Hey, give the guy a rest.

Kaka was not the primary scorer on the Brasil side. Kaka was the point guard to use hoops terminology. His job was to distribute the ball to Robinho, Elano, and Fabiano.

Kaka’s role and I repeated his role was to dish out assists.

Don’t doubt me on this.

This was Dunga’s system.

The stoops at ESPN were either blind or were stuck on their template.

What killed Brasil in the match against Netherlands was Elano was hurt.

Without Elano, this enabled the Dutch to marshal their forces to stop Robinho and Fabiano.

With a Elano healthy, this would have opened up the pitch.

Instead of a two-pronged attack, Brasil would have three go to guys.

Yet, this doesn’t take away from the boneheaded stomp on the ankle by Mello.

You can’t lose your cool in times of crisis.

I am not saying if Mello didn’t do the unforgivable sin Brasil would have won but he did kill Brasil’s chances of mounting a serious comeback.

Brasil played team ball.

They were not a team of stars.

The Brasil press went nuts on this.

Globo Esporte and UOL wanted the likes of Ronaldinho and Ronaldo to play. They blamed Brasil’s defeat on the lack of stars.

Yet, the stars of 2006 stunk the joint out.

They were fat, out of shape, and drugged out.

These stars lost in the quarterfinals too.

Brasil lacks two players.

One is a money player.

This is the cat that can take over a match and score.

A dude who can carry a team on his back like Pele.

A Pele comes along only once in a million years.

Yet, if Kaka, Elano, Robinho, and Fabiano can play together for another four years Brasil will be almost unbeatable.

The second is a stopper on “D”.

Dunga knew what he was doing.

He was fired or quit according to what source you read was because he didn’t placate the Brasil press and the CBF.

Dunga should not have been fired.

This was stupid.

England needs to fire Capello.

Fire the entire team and rebuild from the ground up.

The English side was overrated.

Germany will be a force to be reckoned with in 2014.

Spain is a one hit wonder.

The Netherlands had their chance.

Argentina needs to fire Maradona.

Argentinos will need to replace Tevez and whole slew of players.

Maradona is fun for quotes but a futebol mind he is not.

Hire a real coach.

Try Europe.

Uruguay was a huge surprise to many.

Not me.

Uruguay had to go through the qualifying route to make it to the World Cup.

The Uruguayans are for real.

Suarez and Forlan are for real.

This squad is made up of some real good young studs.

Forlan scored five goals.

All in all, it was a fun World Cup.

South America proved they can hang with the big boys of Europe.

The power is shifting from Europe to South America.

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On the verge of leading Brasil into their quarterfinal match against the Netherlands, former Dutch star Johann Cruyff said he wouldn’t pay to see Brasil play.

He said Dunga has led Brasil into the shits.

Globo Esporte put it this way- Dunga aproveitou a entrevista coletiva oficial da Fifa, nesta quinta-feira, em Porto Elizabeth, na África do Sul, para responder a Johann Cruyff. Considerado um dos melhores jogadores de todos os tempos, o líder do Carrossel Holandês que encantou o mundo na Copa de 1974 disse que “não pagaria para ver a seleção brasileira jogar” e que o Brasil comandado por Dunga tinha se transformado em “um time como qualquer outro da Copa”.

Dunag fired back that FIFA gave him free tickets.

Ele (Cruyff) deve ter ingresso de graça. Por isso ele não paga. Ele pode escolher as partidas para ver. Na democracia você escolhe os jogos que quer e vai assistir. Ele deve ter ingressos de graça da Fifa e por isso não vai comprar.

Perguntado se pagaria para ver alguma partida da Holanda nesta Copa do Mundo, Dunga preferiu brincar.

Eu sou pão duro, vejo pela televisão.

Logo depois, o técnico brasileiro procurou amenizar a polêmica. Jogos de Copa do Mundo sempre valem a pena assistir. São um espetáculo. São jogadores de qualidade de todos os países. É algo único que acontece de quatro em quatro anos

Não sei se o mundo para, mas uma boa parte do mundo para para assistir. Eu pagaria sem dúvida. Gostamos de olhar os jogos porque são jogadores muito técnicos.

Johann Cruyff também havia criticado os talentos individuais escolhidos por Dunga para disputar a Copa do Mundo.

 Eu olho para esse time e me lembro de pessoas como Gerson, Tostão, Falcão, Zico ou Sócrates. Agora, só vejo Gilberto (Silva), (Felipe) Melo, (Michel) Bastos, Julio Baptista. Onde está a magia brasileira? – disse o holandês.

The entire world was waiting to see the match between Brasil and Portugal. This baby ended in a nil-nil kiss your sister draw.

Dunga rested many of his top stars. Robinho was given the day off. Kaka had to sit out due two yellow cards and Elano missed to the ankle stomp administered by the dirty Ivory Coast buggers.

Brasil had most of the possessions.

Both sides had a few good scoring chances but ended up firing blanks.

The fake Ronaldo played like a girl. This dude sucks in big time matches.

The stupid folks at ESPN named the fake Ronaldo the man of the match. Only the idiots at ESPN could come up with something as insane and inane as this.

Dunga said it best- This was a totally dumb decision. Lucio should have been named player of the match not the fake fraud of a player Cristiano Ronaldo.

 Além do técnico Dunga, diferentes atletas da seleção brasileira criticaram a escolha de Cristiano Ronaldo como melhor jogador em campo. O mais enfático foi o zagueiro Lúcio: “É uma vergonha”, disse, depois de observar que a defesa brasileira anulou o atacante português. “A nossa defesa marcou muito bem, conseguiu neutralizar o Cristiano Ronaldo. Com todo respeito, acho uma vergonha ele ser eleito o melhor em campo”.Na entrevista coletiva depois do jogo, Dunga afirmou que, na sua opinião, o merecedor do troféu de melhor em campo deveria ser, justamente, o capitão da seleção brasileira. ““Eu elegeria o Lúcio, que interceptou todas as bolas e saiu jogando muito bem. Mas são as pessoas que escolhem que têm que ver”, comentou.

Lucio said someone must have been watching a different game.

Luis Fabiano também se surpreendeu com a escolha. “Quem ganhou? O Cristiano Ronaldo? Se ele foi eleito, alguém viu outro jogo”, ironizou. Sobre a própria atuação foi mais comedido: “Se ficam os 11 atrás, como eles ficaram, não há equipe que vença”, observou. “Foi muito complicado achar espaço”.

Os números mostram que Cristiano Ronaldo teve atuação apagada na partida. Chutou sete vezes a gol, mas só uma na direção certa e sem perigo para Julio Cesar. Tocou na bola 32 vezes, acertando 13 passes. Não sofreu marcação especial e levou apenas duas faltas. Conseguiu levar perigo ao gol brasileiro em uma única jogada. Depois de driblar Juan, levou Lúcio a tocar a bola para Raul Meireles, que quase marcou.

Portugal coach blamed Brasil for the lack of “O”.

Dunga said the Portuguese side sat back and did nothing.

Dunga played his cards tight to the vest.

We won Group G and now we faced South American foe Chile on Monday.

Portugal takes on European foe Spain.

Bye, Bye to the fake Ronaldo and his Portuguese buds.

Spain beat Chile 2-1 to win Group H.

Now it’s on to nut cutting time.

Brasil, USA, Uruguay, Chile, Netherlands, Ghana, Slovakia, and South Korea are on one side of the bracket.

You gotta look at the death side of the other bracket. Get this Spain, Argentina, England, Paraguay, Mexico, Germany, and Portugal in a knock down draw out bracket.

Twenty paces, aim and fire guys. Let’s hope the guns are loaded. Whatever you do, don’t fire blanks.

Six of the top fifteen teams in the world are in this bracket.

Crazy baby.

The Brasileiros press can scream at Dunga about how stupid he is but look at the teams he is match with.

You idiot pundits need to shut the blank up.

Dunga is a genius. ]

He has taken a team that was full of fat overpaid stars that didn’t care about anything and transformed this sorry team into one of the top teams in the world.

Dunga got rid of the fat man Ronaldo, the troublemaker Ronaldinho Gaucho, the coke head Adriano and the other clowns and replaced them with Kaka, Robinho, Maicon, and Fabiano.

It’s on to the next round baby.

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Finally, Portugal played very well although be it against an inferior foe North Korea. Portugal flew to a huge 7-0 win.

Even the fake Ronaldo scored his first 2010 World Cup goal in the 87^th minute.

This match was over before it even began.

Portugal came flying out of the box.

They made mince meat of the vaunted North Korean “D.”

The Korean keeper Ri Myong-Guk must felt like he was in a shoot gallery.

Portugal takes on Brasil in the final match of Group G.

Portugal should move on.

Ivory Coast goose is cooked.

This is a dirty team.

Drogba and his mates should shot for dirty play and horrible acting.

Thank God Elano didn’t get hurt when the Ivory Coast player decided to do the ankle stomp on him.

Portugal played well but against Brasil Portugal will have a hard time even though Brasil is minus Kaka.

You better watch out for Danny Alves.

Robinho will be loaded for bear as well too.

Brasil has a point to prove.

We will be playing with a chip on our shoulders.

Watch out Portugal for your fakes stars better be ready.

Chile beat Switzerland 1-0.

Spain took care of business against Honduras winning 2-nil.

Chile is top dog with six points.

The Chileans are on to the next round.

Spain and the Swiss are tied for second with three points each.

Switzerland battles Honduras and Spain takes on Chile.

Spain has to win against Chile and hopes that Switzerland either losses or wins by less than two goals.

Brasil, Argentina, Netherlands, and Chile are on to the knockout stage.

The fun is just heating up.

I just love it.

The cheating French are fighting with each other.

Ireland must be laughing themselves silly.

Even with all this chaos the French are still dangerous.

I would love see them get 86^th in the Group stage along with the nasty Germans.

Italy the defending World Cup champs may not even make it out of the Group stage too.

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This is the match I have been waiting for Brasil- Ivory Coast.

Game on.

I love it.

So far, we have a tightly played contest.

Brasil hit for pay dirt in the in the 25^th minute. Luis Fabiano fought his way thru the tough Ivory Coast “D”.

He roofed a tight angled right side shot to give us 1-0 lead.

Kaka had his hand in the play with a great back heel pass to set up the winner.

Brasil has now seized the match by the throat.

Ivory Coast is still dangerous with Didier Drogba on the pitch.

This cat can change the scope of the match in a heartbeat.

Except for free kick, Drogba has been MIA.

This is not good for the Ivory Coast.

So far so good, for we are up 1-nil.

From the 35^th to the 37^th minute, the Ivory Coast has had three good attacks on goal. Zippo nada is the result.

We are half and we have the result we wanted a 1-0 lead.

We are in the money. Fabiano took it straight to the rack and beat three Ivory Coast defenders to make 2-0 Brasil in the 50^th minute.

A great long ball by mate Julio Cesar set this up.

Drogba had a great header on goal in the 54^th minute. His shot skidded across the goalmouth.

This was s close call. 

It is three-nil in the 63^rd minute.

Kaka took a free kick down the left side of the pitch. He set it up with a great crossover dribble.

This set up the defender to shade to the middle of the pitch.

Kaka went zoom past em.

He flew straight to Ivory Coast end line.

Elano broke to the center of the box.

Kaka fired a great diagonal pass to mate Elano.

Elano had the easy tap in goal to make 3-0 nil Brasil.

Drogba scored for the Ivory Coast on a break away header in the 79^th minute.

This was set up by a defensive lapse by Brasil.

Robinho stopped a for sure goal a few moments earlier.

This led directly to the Didier Drogba goal.

Now you see what I mean about how dangerous Drogba is.

It is 3-1 Brasil.

Kaka was given the heave-hoe after his second yellow card.

The Ivory Coast player deliberately ran into his elbow.

The guy’s a flopper.

This sucks big time.

Brasil was given the raw end of the deal.

Yet read the scoreboard fools.

You lost sucker.

3-1.

Brasil is on to the next round.

Kaka will miss the final Group stage match against Portugal.

Kaka played great.

He didn’t score but had two assists.

The Elephants are dirty.

The Brasil press said that peace has been restored on the Brasilian team. This win tested the nerves of the Brasileiros team- Globo Esporte- Foi uma vitória para restabelecer a paz entre a seleção brasileira e a torcida, que na arquibancada do Soccer City gritou “olé” e “o campeão voltou” graças ao placar de 3 a 1 sobre a Costa do Marfim neste domingo, em Joanesburgo. E foi também uma vitória que testou os nervos de alguns jogadores, já que os africanos apelaram para faltas duras depois de levarem três gols até os 17 minutos do segundo tempo. Kaká não passou nesse teste e foi expulso.

Luis Fabiano’s two goals made him the top scorer with Dunga at the helm.

Os gols marcados por Luis Fabiano (duas vezes, uma delas ajeitando a bola com o braço) e Elano fazem do Brasil o segundo país classificado para as oitavas de final da Copa do Mundo, depois da Holanda, e o terceiro a conseguir 100% de aproveitamento, junto com holandeses e argentinos. A primeira colocação do Grupo G pode ficar garantida já nesta segunda-feira, em caso de empate entre Portugal e Coreia do Norte, que se enfrentam às 8h30m. Luis Fabiano, agora o artilheiro da era Dunga (com 21 gols), foi eleito o melhor em campo no Soccer City. 

The press is saying that Fabiano’s second goal is similar to Maradona’s famous “Hand of God” goal in 1986.

The the ball did roll up his arm.

The ref didn’t see it.

Too bad this baby counts.

This was like Maradona’s blatant hand ball.

This sucker was not intentional.

 Em 1986, o gol com a mão de Maradona na partida de quartas de final entre Argentina e Inglaterra criou uma polêmica que se arrasta por mais de 20 anos e promete não ter fim. Neste domingo, em Joanesburgo, Luis Fabiano, mais discretamente, usou novamente do artifício para ampliar a vantagem da seleção brasileira sobre a Costa do Marfim, na partida vencida pelo Brasil por 3 a 1. Após a partida, o atacante confessou que dominou a bola com o braço. No entanto, ele tentou aliviar para o seu lado.

Foi uma mão involuntária, a mão de Deus. Realmente a bola acabou tocando na mão no primeiro lance. O segundo lance foi no ombro. Para ficar mais bonito, o gol tinha que ter um toque duvidoso. Mas como foi involuntário, acho que valeu o gol. Acho que foi um dos mais bonitos da minha carreira. Fazer um gol numa Copa do Mundo é espetacular. Acho que é falar mais do gol, que foi uma pintura, do que o uso da mão – afirmou.

New Zealand pulled off a huge upset by tying the defending World Cup champs Italy one all.

Italy is playing like crap.

Paraguay shut out Slovenia 2-0.

Paraguay is in the pole position in Group F with four points. Italy and New Zealand are tied for second with two points each.

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This is the day I have been waiting for Brasil’s first World Cup match.

Sure, Brasileiros won 2-1 but the reality of the situation is this we played like crap.

Yes, the two goals were brilliant.

Maicon scored the first goal in the 55^th minute.

He fired a difficult angled shot from the right of the box.

Maicon squeezed the ball past the keeper just inside the left post.

Globo Esporte wrote this about his first appearance in the World Cup competition.

Maicon, um dos estreantes em Copas do Mundo na seleção, disse ter ficado satisfeito com a atuação de outros jogadores que atuaram pela primeira vez na história da competição. Por ter marcado um gol logo na estreia, o jogador ficou emocionado. Mas garante que não chorou.

Maicon said he was happy and about to cry after his first Wiorld Cup goal.

Passou (na minha cabeça) tudo o que eu passei para chegar a esse momento, de disputar a Copa. E logo na primeira partida fazer um gol… Não cheguei a chorar, mas fiquei feliz, beijei a minha aliança por tudo o que a minha esposa vem fazendo por mim. É um agradecimento a todos que sempre estiveram do meu lado.

Then Robinho feed mate Elano. Elano had a walk in goal to make 2-nil Brasil in the 72^nd minute.

North Korea made it close when Ji Yun-Nam shredded the Brasileiros “D”. He ripped the twines to cut the cap to 2-1 in the 89^th minute.

It wasn’t pretty but a win is a win.

Brasil had a 3-1 edge in possession but Kaka and the guys wound up firing blanks.

Kaka was nowhere to be found.

This is very disturbing. 

Globo Esporte said that Brasil has never lost an opening game of the World Cup.

Durante 55 minutos, o Brasil deu a impressão de que seria atingido pela seca de gols nesta Copa do Mundo. Teve uma atuação burocrática no primeiro tempo e adotou outra postura após o intervalo, afastando o assustador 0 a 0 e conseguindo dois belos gols. Um descuido defensivo no fim da partida, no entanto, determinou o placar de 2 a 1 sobre a Coreia do Norte, mantendo a  tradição de vitórias apertadas em estreias. Desde 1982, o Brasil tem 100% de aproveitamento em suas participações iniciais, mas quase sempre por um gol de diferença – a exceção foi em 1994.

Many blamed the frigid conditions. It was 34 degrees with a wind chill of minis 2.

A previsão de frio na noite de Joanesburgo se confirmou, com 2º no começo da partida (e sensação térmica de -3º), obrigando cinco dos dez jogadores de linha na escalação inicial a usar luvas: Juan, Gilberto Silva, Felipe Melo, Kaká e Luis Fabiano. Na arquibancada, a torcida fez a sua parte, tentando esquentar o clima com seu grito preferido de “sou brasileiro, com muito orgulho, com muito amor” e dando a impressão de que a seleção estava em casa.

Dunga said Brasil started out slow and improved in the second the half.

Após a vitória por 2 a 1 sobre a Coreia do Norte nesta terça-feira, em Joanesburgo, o técnico Dunga disse que o Brasil sentiu a ansidedade do primeiro jogo na Copa do Mundo, mas melhorou no segundo tempo. O comandante da seleção  explicou as substituições feitas na partida (Elano, Kaká e Felipe Melo saíram para as entradas de Daniel Alves, Nilmar e Ramires) e falou sobre a dificuldade de enfrentar equipes que armam fortes retrancas. Confira os principais pontos da entrevista coletiva:

The press questioned Dunga about his line up and why he choose Nilmar over Julio Baptista.

Eu tenho 23 opções no elenco. Se fosse apenas substituir um pelo outro, eu optava pelo Julio Baptista. Mas eles (coreanos) estavam em linha. Por isso eu quis colocar um jogador para dar mais velocidade, e esse era o Nilmar.

Then the idiot press asked Dunga if Brasil will play better against a stronger opponet.

Quando se enfrenta uma seleção ofensiva, você tem espaço. Quando um time joga fechado, fica difícil. É preciso acelerar o passe, tem que ter persistência. Mas a nossa movimentação foi perfeita no segundo tempo, principalmente quando passava o Maicon. E criou bastantes oportunidades.

We will find out when Brasil faces the Ivory Coast on Saturday.

Portugal and the Ivory Coast tie nil-nil.

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