Brazil's team at Wembley will be :
Helton (Porto), Daniel Alves (Sevilha), Naldo(Werder Bremen), Juan (Bayer Leverkusen), Gilberto (Hertha Berlin), Mineiro (Hertha Berlin), Gilberto Silva (Arsenal) Kaka (AC Milan), Ronaldinho (Barcelona), Robinho (Real Madrid) and Vagner Love (CSKA Moscow).
The new boys from Brazil
VAGNER LOVE – He earned his nickname because one day he was found "scoring" with
a groupie in a hotel room, very skiful and fast. Palmeiras was his only serious club in Brazil. There he played two years as a professional and got one relegation and promotion. After 2004 he went to Russia and made history there when his goals in UEFA cup made CSKA Moscow the first Russian club to win a major European title.
AFONSO ALVES – The biggest shock of this group. Most Brazilian fans and journalists have never heard of him. But he has scored more goals for Herenveen than Ronaldo, Romario or Van Nistelroy in one Dutch season. This happened because Alfonso build his professional life in northern Europe. Before Holland he played in Sweden for Malmo. This happened because the Atletico Mineiro, the club which sold Gilberto Silva to Arsenal, showed to door to him.
NALDO – Another player that the great majority of fans and press have never heard
about. Naldo arrived in Werder Bremen from Juventude, the club from same city where Scolari was born and raised, Caxias do Sul. He won all hearts and minds in German football when he scored a hat-trick against Eintracht Frankfurt. From that day the lad started to dream about of the call of Dunga, which happened for this tour.
After the England game today, Brazil will play against Turkey in Germany next week.
London is becoming the house of Brazilian football, as this is our fourth match there in the space of nine months. Unlike the other visits, this one has different taste because now we play England and the honeymoon between the coach and the fats cats of the team is over.
Dunga didn´t like Kaka and Ronaldinho asking for a holiday instead of going to the Copa America. For the game at Wembley his biggest concern is to put on the pitch a team with the biggest international expertise possible.
Another thing made clear by the coach is the duties of Robinho, Ronaldinho and Kaka : those three are free to dream but they also have to work for the team.
Gilberto Silva is the guardian of Brazilian castle today. With two World Cups and a coach like Arsene Wenger behind him, he is the silent leader of the team.
Mineiro, his partner in the midfield, has a lot to prove, because he left the country as biggest player of the domestic league and then disappeared without a trace in European football.
As happens during World Cups in Brazil a lot of people will leave their offices earlier today.