THE BRAZILIAN nation was saddened by the attitude of our team when we played France on Saturday night.
Like 1986 and 1998 we said ” au revoir” to the World Cup because of a lack of guts and the blind faith of the coach in certain sacred cows, like Roberto Carlos and Cafu.Those were the main reasons for the defeat.
What Roberto Carlos did in the moment of the goal was to give Thierry Henry the freedom of the city. It was like putting Al Capone in charge of Prohibition in Chicago.
Still, we who love the sport of football have to say this : What a playmaker Zinedine Zidane is!
The game is going to miss Zidane after the World Cup. Like Gazza and Cruyff, he shows us how football learned in the streets is good for the game.
The most amazing thing said by any Brazilian player after the game was when Cafu said, “After their goal I felt we could score in any moment of the game.” He thought that. We didn’t.
We will now turn to Portugal and support Scolari and Deco, who are our people in Germany now.
France meet Portugal on Wednesday night.
By Alexandre Abreu Gontijo