Antônio Carlos Napoleão BRAZIL OF ALL WORLD CUPS Brasília 2012 ©2012. All rights reserved. The author allows reproduction of parts of this book, provided the source is cited. RY A SUMM THE WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL 10 Ministry of Sport Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco A TRIUMPHAL KICKS AND NEIGHS 14 ZIP 70054-906 Brasilia, DF 1930 - THE FIRST WORLD CUP 18 FAUSTO DOS SANTOS 24 N216b Napoleão, Antônio Carlos. 1934 - A DREAM UNFULFILLED 26 Brazil of all World Cups 1930 - 2010 / Antônio Carlos Napoleão. – Brasília : Ministry of Sport, 2012 1938 – THE STRENGTH OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 34 260 p. ; 23 cm. LEÔNIDAS DA SILVA – THE BLACK DIAMOND 42 ISBN 1950 – THE COUNTRY OF FOOTBALL HOSTS THE WORLD CUP 46 1. History of football. 2. History of Brazil in the World Cup. 3. Football. 4. Brazilian Football Team. I. Title ADEMIR MENEZES – THE CHIN 52 CDD: 981 1954 – A FESTIVAL OF GOALS 56 JULINHO BOTELHO 62 1958 – THE WORLD CUP IS OURS 64 1962 – BRAZIL, TWICE WORLD CHAMPION 74 1966 – EARLY ELIMINATION 86 1970 – BRAZIL, THREE TIMES WORLD CHAMPION 93 1974 – WORLD CUP REVEALS CLOCKWORK ORANGE 103 1978 – BRAZIL, THE MORAL CHAMPION OF THE WORLD CUP 109 1982 – ART FOOTBALL DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE CHAMPIONSHIP 117 1986 – THE LAST WORLD CUP OF A GENERATION OF SUPERSTARS 123 1990 – BEGINNING OF THE DUNGA AGE 129 1994 – BRAZIL LIFTS THE WORLD CUP TROPHY FOR THE FOURTH TIME 135 1998 – A HAZY FINAL 147 2002 – THE FIRST FIVE-TIME WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPION 154 2006 – BRAZIL IS ELIMINATED IN THE QUARTER FINALS 171 2010 – THE DREAM OF WINNING THE SIXTH WORLD CUP IS POSTPONED 179 BRAZIL MATCHES IN ALL WORLD CUPS 186 BRAZIL TEAM RECORDS IN ALL WORLD CUPS 238 Americans, and among them Brazil, were vital in the strength-football never hung up its boots, and still has Ultimately, however, even when the Brazilian team loses construction of this journey, and it should be noted that supporters even in Brazil, but the world never played it enthralls the world. The best examples are still the 1982 the first world championship was spurned by the major ball the same way, ever watchful and ever fearful of the cup in Spain and the 1986 cup in Mexico, where a genera- countries of Europe, starting with England, which has selected Brazilian players. tion of superstars of the first magnitude shone, such as always seen itself as the Trustee of football, and Uruguay, Falcão, Socrates, Careca, Zico. already an Olympic champion, has to sponsor the cham- The saga of yellow-green soccer played in the gala Brazil collects World Cup trophies, starting with its partici- pionship on its own. arena of the World Cup is scrutinized in this book by The players’ style generated an atypical reaction in Brazil- pation in all the 19 held to date and its place guaranteed Antonio Carlos Napoleão as an epic narrative. Securing ian fans: it is not enough to win, it is essential to also play as the host in 2014; the country reached seven finals and Football used to be a rigid game, with no flexibility, prac- his place as a sports historian, the author records the a beautiful game. Moody, critical, defeatist, fans are also won five; and another distinction that is less noted but ticed based on a manual written by the British. There history of Brazilian football in the cups with a wealth of stable, loyal, enthusiastic, and this paradox is explained not less important: Brazil’s mastery has enriched football were mostly white players, generally elite amateurs who documents and a bright iconography ranging from the by the glittering superiority complex that fans project on with an artistic density that increased the interest and didn’t need remuneration. With Brazil’s experience, foot- country’s debut in 1930 in Uruguay to the adventures the Brazilian team: not admitting that the team, being the admiration for the game. If it is the sport of the world, this ball became a platform for inclusion and social mobility. in South Africa in 2010. Entries of all games in the 19 best, let victory escape. Not by chance the figure of the devotion is largely due to the liturgy introduced by the Poor and black kids became the first mass idols, such as cups and an anthology of records of the Brazilian team fan is featured in this book in a vast and interdependent yellow-green team, with its nimbleness, improvisation, Friedenreich, Heitor Domingos da Guia and Leonidas da complement the research as an encyclopedia and an photo album, as an expression that World Cup and Brazil unpredictability, swerves, the technique of putting the Silva. We began our participation in international tourna- illustrative almanac of the best football. are front and back of the same valuable coin of football. THE WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL ball on the right spot, making it behave irregularly and ments in the America’s Cup in 1916, and introduced the At the end of the reading, one concludes that, if Brazil If the World Cup is the greatest show on earth, no other take asymmetric paths, synthesized in the banana kick. ballet moves at the 1930 World Cup, in our first official failed to win 14 of the 19 world cups in which it competed, country excites its people as in our fields of earth and game against a European team, Yugoslavia. The team did it was never due to collective ineptitude or lack of quality grass. What we read in O Brasil de Todas as Copas (Brazil The excellence of players on the field and the importance not pass the qualifiers, the victim of political strife among players. More than once, the Brazilian team lost to itself - of All World Cups) is a proof that, beyond what our par- of the game in society are Brazilian distinguishing fea- the top hats of Rio and São Paulo, who refused to release due to disorganization, under and/or overconfidence, indi- ticipation in all cups confirms, there never was, because tures that helped give football a universal dimension. 14 of the summoned players. But those who watched vidual errors, incompatibility of coaches. In Italy, in 1938, there never can be, a World Cup without Brazil. Currently, 204 associations affiliated to FIFA (not all the two matches played by Brazil had the good fortune we didn’t even know the rules properly - coach Ademar representing independent States, such as Hong Kong and to witness the rise of a sport to an art form. Pimenta didn’t know the regulation of the goal kick. The Tahiti) are vying for the 31 places in the competition (the amateurism and disorganization ended in 1958 when the 32nd belongs to the host). A long game with geopolitical Friedenreich was not released by São Paulo to go to president of the Brazilian Confederation of Sports, João and sociological effects has been played for decades so Uruguay, but another poor black kid, Fausto dos San- Havelange, kicked the parish mentality, unified São Paulo that each selected player could wear the nation’s shirt. tos from Maranhão, won the Cup. He was one of the and Rio de Janeiro and gave the team the necessary lo- Every team in the world goes to the field filled with pride, first football idols to earn superlative epithets: Black gistics to win the greatest sporting contest on the planet. according to chronicler Nelson Rodrigues, “motherland Wonder, so prominent that he was also one of the first At last Brazil matched its performance to its potential and in football boots”, and with the World Cup football was Brazilians to enter the transnational circuit of immigrant introduced to the world the perfect synthesis of football Aldo Rebelo consolidated as an element of national identity. South stars, going to play in Spain’s Barcelona in 1931. The excellence, the boy Pelé. Ministry of Sport 10 11 Yes, we did. For example: We learned how to win the is not a single Brazilian in their team. The reader will ask: game in dubious ways. And, in fact, we were hunted with “Not even Pelé?” Our fellow chroniclers are so fascinated the impudent acquiescence of the referees, who were by feeble football that they wiped out the divine black controlled by England. Channel 100 is out there. It is the player from the face of the earth. Someone will say that L cinema, with a magnification of Michelangelean scale, Pelé played only against Bulgaria and was “murdered” in A D showing our massacre. Nothing describes and nothing the Brazil – Portugal game. compares to the cynicism with which Pelé was brought down. This cynicism was perhaps the biggest lesson we But no European player has ever done anything re- S learned from the World Cup. sembling Pelé’s moves in Brazil’s opening game. And even on a stretch, even in a hearse, he should be in H The best lesson, and yet not the only one. We also learned any World Cup team. And what about Gilmar? And Paulo that an empire is built by jumping over the wall and ran- Henrique? And Altair etc… etc… From the stupidity of the G sacking the neighbor. There was only one thing we did Technical Committee we delve right into the stupidity of CKS AN not need to learn: How to play football. You all witnessed a certain chronicler. One managed to destroy the team; I EI RIUMPH the fate of the Russian team in Brazil. It is one of the best the other wants to destroy Brazilian football itself. teams in the world. The only reason why it did not get to the K N T finals, in lieu of Germany, was because it played the semi- Thank God there are two smart people in football: The final with nine men.