Ronaldinho left off the Brazilian world cup team....say it aint so???????

[Spectrum]

A team >>> an individual.

Brazil flopped last time because they insisted on playing Ronaldo when he was past it..

Ronaldo scored more goals than anyone on the team. He was the only one that really showed up in terms of scoring goals. Ronaldinho was the one that didnt show up... Brazil was getting dominated in the mid-field.. especially against France

 

[Spectrum]

Bingo, my sentiment as well. When it comes to Roberto Carlos, I'm a fan.

Yeah..even though he is older now.. I thought he would possibly still make the team.

 

[Ogsta]

Ronaldo scored more goals than anyone on the team. He was the only one that really showed up in terms of scoring goals. Ronaldinho was the one that didnt show up... Brazil was getting dominated in the mid-field.. especially against France

Ronaldo showed up with with 50 extra pounds of weight. He looked disinterested. I swear he scored half of his goals against one team as well, who incidently had a shitty defence. All well him scoring goals but not at the expense of the team. Ronaldo and Adriano up front was never gonna work! Based on form at the time, it should have been Adriano on his ones however brazil had to play their so called stars. Thats why Dunga is making the right move here.

 

[Spectrum]

Ronaldo showed up with with 50 extra pounds of weight. He looked disinterested. I swear he scored half of his goals against one team as well, who incidently had a shitty defence. All well him scoring goals but not at the expense of the team. Ronaldo and Adriano up front was never gonna work! Based on form at the time, it should have been Adriano on his ones however brazil had to play their so called stars. Thats why Dunga is making the right move here.

Ronaldo has been overweight for years now and he didnt show up fat for the world cup. he was fat well before the world cup LOL. But that fast bastard continues to score goals and he was the only one putting in goals for Brasil. O Gordo cant in any way, shape, or form take the blame for that performance when he was scoring goals...that is all a striker needs to do..score goals.

Ronaldinho didnt do his job at mid-field and that is where Brasil struggled and it only became very apparent against France....where Zidane embarrassed Brasil and also made Dinho look like a fraud as the FIFA player of the year.

 

[2211]

That's a huge mistake in my book, ronaldinho is still a threat in any game and any leaque, having him on the field helps spread the defense instead of working a zone and double and triple teaming a player, btw if dunca thinks that kaka is going to be the man, and fix all the problems of that team all by himself, he must be smoking some strong grass.

i bet you that brasil will not even reach the quarter finals. Smoke on.

 

[HeathCliff]

I wasnt either... Im hoping that they are as good defensively as people think they can be. I would have really liked to see Pato and especially Neymar on that team...

I do know one thing though...they will play much more inspired than the 2006 World Cup team... those cats really didnt give a damn... but they definitely left some very talented players of this roster.

In March my little homie from Zona Norte called me and we spoke about the difference between the 06' team and this year's World Cup team and he said that the individualism is gone. The willingness to play as a team is of that like no other WC squad he has seen in his lifetime.

I can't wait

 

[Spectrum]

In March my little homie from Zona Norte called me and we spoke about the difference between the 06' team and this year's World Cup team and he said that the individualism is gone. The willingness to play as a team is of that like no other WC squad he has seen in his lifetime.

I can't wait

yo ...LOL!!!! at your sig.

 

[Nzinga]

Lol at Africans doing anything disciplined. Also lol at the imbalanced African midfields winning any battle.

The Brazilian midfield is not that good. South Africa and Egypt exposed them. The problem is that people refuse to challenge Brazil in midlfield.

 

[DJCandle]

This was a desperation shot and proved very little.

Brazil have a very basic problem; they do not have team speed, and if you have a team of fast players, who run right down their throat, they are trouble. If anyone has noticed, Brazil attack from the back; they build up by moving the ball from one side back to the other while bringing up their backline. When they find a seam on a wing, they overlap a fullback and cross the ball into the crowded middle where they use their superior ball skills to create opportunity in tight space. If you take the ball, and run up their middle, they are in trouble unless their powerful offside trap stops you. Zidane eliminated them in the 2006 World Cup simply by running up their gut.

The reason why teams fail to capitalise on the fundamentally flawed scheme Brazil employs is that most teams are so in awe of them and resort to playing the same football as they do, and thereby fall into the hands of Brazil.

Those who know better usually do not have the speed to exploit this flaw. France, however, which has employed a significant number of Africans or black people since 1986, has the speed to punish Brazil. It is for this reason that since 1986, Brazil has not beaten France in the World Cup. They are 0-3, starting with the game in Mexico City where Brazil were eliminated by France.

If Africans keep a disciplined backline, and challenge the midfield of Brazil with runs down the pipe, they will have a good chance of winning the game.

*Brazil does have fast players like Robinho and Ramires. Their speed, however, is not a part of Brazilian football, wherein they rarely stretch the field.

They do what works for them. There's no golden rule in football in how to play. They play to their strengths which is touching the ball at a decent pace, and making it impossible to get the ball back. They don't need to necessarily stretch the field because they've got world class on the ball.

 

[DJCandle]

The Brazilian midfield is not that good. South Africa and Egypt exposed them. The problem is that people refuse to challenge Brazil in midlfield.

Not that good? Your bias is leaking as usual. You can expose someone as much as you want, but if you can't win the game, what have you accomplished?

The Patriots in American football tell you one thing and one thing only...

We're lining up 5 receiver sets... stop us. If you can't, that's your problem.

 

[Nzinga]

They do what works for them. There's no golden rule in football in how to play. They play to their strengths which is touching the ball at a decent pace, and making it impossible to get the ball back. They don't need to necessarily stretch the field because they've got world class

I agree; all I was trying to point out was the system has its flaws...

 

[Nzinga]

Not that good? Your bias is leaking as usual. You can expose someone as much as you want, but if you can't win the game, what have you accomplished?

The Patriots in American football tell you one thing and one thing only...

We're lining up 5 receiver sets... stop us. If you can't, that's your problem.

Talk about football not American rugby. There is a way to assess this game, and even if you score more goals, it does not mean you are superior in every phase. The strength of Brazil is in central defense and goal keeping. In front of the goal, they are creative and opportunisitc. However, even when they played Ghana, Michael Appiah dominated the midfield. Their midfield has not been the same since the days of Zico. They simply have not had the excellent possession midfieders of the quality of Andreas Iniesta, Paul Gascoigne, Charles Musonda, Daniel Amokachi, JJ Okocha, Xavi Hernandez, Pavel Medved, or Zinedine Zidane. Kaka is more of a facilitator than a dominant midfield destroyer. His strength is vision on the ball. He know how make plays in front of him. Their system keeps the game out of the midfield, but that is potentially a liability against a team with speed.

 

[mariano42]

Ronaldo scored more goals than anyone on the team. He was the only one that really showed up in terms of scoring goals. Ronaldinho was the one that didnt show up... Brazil was getting dominated in the mid-field.. especially against France

co-sign.


i never was crazy about adriano. hes probably the most overrated player of the last decade