Brazil says goodbye to the World Cup
Over the weekend, Germany shook from the great football news: the Brazilian national team for the first time in 12 years will not play in the finals of the world championship. Five-time World Cup winners, considered absolute favorites, stumbled already at the 1/4 final stage. A peremptory defeat from the French (0: 1) shocked the Brazilian nation, however, among the wide fan masses it was met without hysteria and regrets. In a neutral viewer in this championship, the Brazilians did not cause anything but disappointment.
“What is being said about our game in Brazil? Nothing good. But they are trying to love the national team and such. You don’t stop loving your wife if she was a wonderful housewife for 11 months, and at the end of the year she’s very tired and slightly started up her life. Moreover, she’s objectively we have no competitors in this championship. More precisely, it’s not, Argentina has flown out, "- before the match with the French, Brazilian TV Paolo sits in the press center, cross-legged, and relaxedly discusses the chances of his team. Paolo is a very common type of Brazilians who spend the first month of this summer in Germany. While representatives of other countries are biting their nails about every match of their team, South Americans are calmly doing their job, not a bit in doubt: Brazil is the only team that will win, no matter how badly it plays.
Actually, this is exactly what she did in all her previous games. With the exception of the second half of the match with Japan, the Brazilians simply went on the field, as if not intending to play. For such a football, the team could have given up if it weren’t for its fans. During the three weeks of the championship, yellow-green fans appeared in various parts of Germany and their bright, emotional and life-affirming behavior seemed to atone for the sins of their pale team. They cause even more respect when you find out how the fans get so far for their favorites. Many have been saving up for this trip for all four years, denying themselves holidays and other human pleasures. However, now they will probably regret the sacrifices made. When Henry turned into a goal the transfer of Zidane who did not want to retire, a sobbing Brazilian fan of age was shown on television. The poor fellow knew: his guys would not win a goal against such Frenchmen even for the remaining half hour.
“We lost for a simple reason: because in this championship we didn’t play the way the Brazilians should play,” Juninho's midfielder cannot yet boast the title of the main player of the national team, but he expresses his thoughts more clearly than others. “France was better than us. Now we have to accept a fair criticize and prepare young players for the next championship. " “Technically, we were very well prepared, but since we did not win the title, then there were problems,” the head coach of the national team Carlos Alberto Parreira tried to find out the reasons for the failure. “Now I understand that we needed to be better prepared, especially in terms of physical condition. I’ll stay Am I on the national team? I don’t know. And I don’t really worry about it now ... "
An hour after the end of the match, the attention of the crowd walking from the stadium was attracted by a black fan of the French national team. Shaggy, like Barmaley, and huge, like Patrick Vieira, he performed a very unusual ritual: he wrote the name of the player of the Brazilian national team on the ground, jumped up, erased with a wild roar his boot, sat down again and began to write a new name. After going through the entire composition of the South Americans, he once again screamed and spent Brazil with all the goodbyes he knew: "Au Revoir", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Chao" and even "Dazvidan". After this, everything became clear even to those who were not at the match. The Brazilian circus has left. To entertain the audience in the remaining matches will be those who really succeed.
Yuri Dud, Frankfurt