Wednesday 17 April 2013

Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Selecao – An analysis


It’s all happening in Brazil. We’re just two months away from the start of a three-year sporting bonanza, beginning with the 2013 Confederations Cup and ending with the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the middle of that is the 2014 World Cup, a tournament that has belonged to Brazil more than any other country in international history. And the pressure is on for Seleção boss Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Brazil Training and Press Conference
So far in his five-month tenure in charge of the Seleção, Scolari has managed Brazil in four games – three in Europe and one back home in Brazil – and won just one. For Brazil, that simply isn’t good enough.With three more games to go until the opening day of the 2013 Confederations Cup, Scolari is under increasing pressure to get it right – for when 2014 comes round, the fans will demand nothing less than a sixth World Cup victory; nothing less than total domination from start to finish; nothing less than a triumph on home soil for the very first time in their history.
It is for this reason that Scolari has been installed in the hotseat. The former Palmeiras and Chelsea boss led a star-studded Seleção to glory in the 2002 World Cup, a tournament where the likes of Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Cafu and Roberto Carlos demonstrated their talents on the world stage.


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