Posted on 07/09/2014 1:49:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The morning after the night before, Brazil will wake up, shake its head and pray it had all been a terrible nightmare.
Left disorientated, punch drunk and confused by the 7-1 annihilation in the Estádio Mineirão it will take time for the full implications to sink in for a country that had so much invested in all senses of the word in World Cup success.
The newspapers, broadcasters and websites that had spent the last few days whipping up a sentimental tidal wave of sympathy for Neymar turned on Luiz Felipe Scolaris men.
David Luiz, the capering heartbeat of this side and its second most popular player after the stricken No10, was now the tear stained villain.
The Mineiraco, as it is already being called in an echo of the deep impact of the 1950 Maracanazo when Uruguay defeated Brazil in the final the last time the tournament was held here, was variously described as the disgrace of all disgraces and a historic humiliation. Sports paper Lance called it the biggest shame in history.
The previous day there had been even bigger tailbacks than usual in São Paulo as Brazilians rushed home to ensure they were in front of a television set. By 5pm, the streets were eerily silent in Brazils biggest city. What was to follow was equally unsettling.
The effects will be wide ranging, for a whole host of reasons political, economic and cultural in a country where, despite everything, football remains so closely bound up with national identity.
For president, Dilma Rousseff, who found herself the target of obscene chants that had not been heard inside World Cup grounds since the São Paulo opener, the result could have an impact on her re-election prospects in October.
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“FWIW, they have to face the shame of the third place game on Saturday...”
That will be interesting, not.....
Now THAT was funny!
Nice work.
LOL!
If it winds up being Argentina verses Brazil blood will flow.
I think it will be an all Europe final.
“That will be interesting, not...”
It will be if they play Argentina...
That's Cleveland.
*Scolari will never coach in Brazil again.
*Julio Cesar will never be recalled to Brazil’s National Team ever again
*Probably the only ones who will ever done the Brazilian yellow jersey again will be the ones who were injured (Neymar) and didn’t play (Thiago Silva). Everybody else has played their last game for the Selecao.
And church is just a “ceremony”. South Americans & a lot of Europeans live & die by soccer. Sad but true.
HAAHAAA!
Does that mean after he gets their good faith money, then he will pay all of them back? Seems to me, I have heard this before.
:-)
Reading the English translation in El Globo, a huge Brazilian daily, news of the massacre reached the beaches of the Copacabana “where a huge mass robbery was taking place.” I thought that was slightly amusing.
Sad and true.
“That will be interesting, not... It will be if they play Argentina...”
Yeah, forgot about that. If Brazil should lose that game to Argentina I’m thinking their coach oughta get out of the country before the game is over, lol!
I suppose if a Cameroon or Costa Rica (or USA) got that far, they would enjoy one last chance to go home on a high-ish note.
But Argentina or the Netherlands won't possibly want to be there. Just to beat (while getting fouled like crazy) eleven Brazilians on heavy anti-depressant meds.
Yes. The Iraqi national team was run by Uday "Chuckles" Hussein, who, at various times, flogged, bastinadoed, and beat team members whose performance was not up to expectations, shaved their heads, forced them to kick concrete soccer balls, and dragged them through gravel quarries. I believe there was a Youtube video of Uday personally beating the soles of one player's feet with a cane. I've had tough bosses before but that?...
Die by the football.
Get a life.
If people had that much passion for freedom and liberty, we would have deposed Obama by now
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