That 5-time winners have now been knocked out of the 6th consecutive World Cup is not a surprise. The game against Norway showed what’s wrong with Brazilian football. The revival project has failed
To dissect and dissert on the immediate aftermath of a Brazil World Cup exit is a cue to repeat these immortal lines, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
One is too familiar with the tears of the yellow-clad Brazilian players, who fret and strut upon football’s greatest stage till they are packed off by a Zidane, an Henry, a Sneijder, a juggernaut of Germans, the Belgians, the indomitable Croatians, and most recently, Erling Haaland of Viking descent.
A whole generation has not experienced a Brazilian triumph on the world stage, and their disbelief in the Selecao folklore is eminently understandable.
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