The beautiful lame
Andrew DownieRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil In a country where managers tend to be either neanderthal sergeant majors who openly champion negative football or weak-willed officials there just to follow the orders of their chairmen, Brazil manager Carlos Alberto Parreira is a rare beast: an intelligent coach who has studied the game at all its levels both inside and outside Brazil, and a man who is both sophisticated and polite.
But right now, it is hard to feel sympathy for him.
Brazil is famously the country of 180 million managers and almost every one of them disagreed with Parreira's team selection and tactics through this tournament.
By putting his stubborn loyalty in the old guard and eschewing the glorious attacking football that made them famous, Parreira has not only let down the fans, he has sullied Brazil's and his own reputation.
He started the competition with the same team that brought him through the qualifiers so impressively. But he was unable to see that his full backs were slow, the midfield sluggish and that too much emphasis was put on the much vaunted 'Magic Quartet' of Kaka, Ronaldo, Adriano and Ronaldinho Gaucho.
With the latter playing out of position, Brazil struggled to make its mark, eeking out slim wins over Croatia and Australia.
When Parreira did introduce some attacking verve for the third group game against Japan, Brazil played something like the kind of football it is known for, scoring four times. Two young full backs got forward, Robinho jinked from wing to wing and the midfield created chance after chance for a resurgent Ronaldo.
And yet in the next game, Parreira resorted to the same players and tactics who were so lacklustre in the openers. To no one's surprise, they disappointed again, only performing in fits and starts against a naïve Ghana.
Brazilian fans have never adored Parreira like they adore Zagallo, the crazy old grandad with a hilarious comment for everyone, or Luiz Felipe Scolari, the straight talking Gaucho who wears his blood and guts on his sleeze. But they always held a grudging respect for Parreira, if only for the way he took a team of uninspiring journeymen and ended Brazil's painful 24-year World Cup drought in the US in 1994.
This year, with this team, was always going to be different. Brazilians were never going to accept anything less than attacking football from a squad that has already proven it can be the most thrilling in the world. Anyone who watched the joyous Brazil that destroyed Argentina 4-1 in last year's Confederations Cup Final know what it is capable of.
After all, this is a team that man for man eclipsed any of its 31 rivals.
A team with Ronaldinho Gaucho, the two time World Player of the Year. A team with Ronaldo, who for all his troubles, proved Parreira right and started scoring again. A team with Juninho Pernambucano, arguably the most deadly striker of a dead ball in world football today.
A team with Robinho, whose mercurial brilliance sparked Brazil into life on more than one occasion this tournament. A team that was the hottest favourite in the history of the World Cup.
Parreira, though, appeared afraid to unleash those talents for fear of defeat. The paradox of Brazil is that fans will accept, albeit grudgingly, poor football if the team wins. But they will not accept defeat lying down. As one distraught fan said after the match: 'At least Argentina fought. For them it wasn't about money, it was about heart.'
Parreira even said he did not even what beautiful football is. He laughingly claimed history remembers winners not great teams, conveniently forgetting Hungary of 1954, Holland of 1974 and more pertinently, Brazil of 1982.
When asked by O Globo newspaper why he wasn't able to put out a team that could excite as well as win, he responded: 'Do Brazilians want to win the Cup or come home early? I think they want to win the cup. What is exciting football? I don't know how to answer that question.
'Is it a team that plays good football and doesn't win? I don't know know what an exciting team is. I know what a technically good side is that plays well is. What is important in the World Cup is winning.'
That attitude backfired, with fans and commetators lining up to excoriate him. Several senior players let him down. Cafu and Roberto Carlos looked past it, Kaka shone only intermittently, Adriano was slow and cumbersome and worst of all, Ronaldinho Gaucho went missing.
Parreira had the solutions. He was afraid to use them. And Brazil paid the price.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=373121&root=worldcup&cc=4716&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos2 講真，彭利拿一路都話隊波上緊力，要留力踢到第七場先至上高位
但係佢上力果條CURVE會唔會上得太慢呢 原帖由 橙色力量 於 2006-7-315:42 發表
Parreira had the solutions. He was afraid to use them. And Brazil paid the price.
:icon075: 雙卡係廢物!?之前幾場雙卡都踢得好好, 而且同位置上有其他球員踢正選會好過佢地咩?
無腦架d巴西傳媒
彭利拿要負責就一定架喇 原帖由 無忌公子 於 2006-7-306:07 PM 發表
雙卡係廢物!?之前幾場雙卡都踢得好好, 而且同位置上有其他球員踢正選會好過佢地咩?
無腦架d巴西傳媒
彭利拿要負責就一定架喇
右邊就有既...
左邊就真係...:icon102: 原帖由 makkaho 於 2006-7-306:10 PM 發表
右邊就有既...
左邊就真係...:icon102:
施仙奴同卡富既話,正路都應該比經驗豐富既隊長卡富做正選
之前幾場卡富都踢得唔算差, 點可以因為一場比賽就話人廢物
:icon066: 原帖由 無忌公子 於 2006-7-306:16 PM 發表
施仙奴同卡富既話,正路都應該比經驗豐富既隊長卡富做正選
之前幾場卡富都踢得唔算差, 點可以因為一場比賽就話人廢物
:icon066:
冇錯 原帖由 makkaho 於 2006-7-306:10 PM 發表
右邊就有既...
左邊就真係...:icon102:
Gustavo Nery 希望上到啦 Carlos截左幾多攻勢ar... :o
亂咁blame. 原帖由 HackerWong 於 2006-7-306:31 PM 發表
Carlos截左幾多攻勢ar... :o
亂咁blame.
RIGHT!!
我最唔"鋸"就係d人係咁鬧卡路士
有睇對法國戈場或者之前d比賽既話都知卡路士表現有幾好
無佢既話巴西隨時失多幾球添啦!
Henry射入戈球, 卡路士係有mistake, 不過其他防守球員都應該有責任
無理由全部係哂中間爭頂, Henry反而無人去睇 原帖由 Fantasista 於 2006-7-312:50 PM 發表
「這是沒有樂趣、沒有個性、沒有巴西風格的足球」
:icon075:
鍾意睇番果D你攻入3球﹐我入番你5球既全攻形巴西。。。。:icon082: 原帖由 bazookay 於 2006-7-308:17 PM 發表
鍾意睇番果D你攻入3球﹐我入番你5球既全攻形巴西。。。。:icon082:
要睇番1970 World Cup ga la wor.. 原帖由 HackerWong 於 2006-7-308:21 PM 發表
要睇番1970 World Cup ga la wor..
咪就係。。。所以果D先至叫做巴西隊。。。。:icon082: 原帖由 沙基 於 2006-7-312:27 PM 發表
巴西出局, 很多人說是意外, 但對於我來說, 這是自然的事
巴西真的那麼強嗎?? 未必.
巴西有著一流的攻擊線是鐵一般的事實, 但防守始終是一個問題, 而且巴西的攻擊線到底有多強???
巴西今年要打外圍賽, 對手是南 ... No matter how weak of Brazil are, one shoot on goal is unusual.
[ 本帖最後由 Barker 於 2006-7-401:19 AM 編輯 ] 其實我覺得係細哨同卡卡兩個擦唔出火花...
同埋大哨+阿祖都淨係識得行行企企....:o:o
雖然中前場粒粒皆星 , 但係全無默契可言... 彭利拿落左台未?
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