Brazil's success in the upcomming years will depend on weather Kaka will get in form or if Ganso is something else than a glass (or well someone else rising up in the midfield, but I don't think it'll be enough to keep Mano and his terrible brand of football on board). Well that and Marcelo (inspite of making the cross that ended in goal, Dani Alves for the NT has never convinced me, but tbf, if both him + Marcelo would've started we would've lost 5-0). Fabio was shockingly bad.
Dear God Dinho is so over, I mean super over (class act as a person though, miles ahead of Messi as far as personality goes, but as a footballer he's done), yes he can produce a magic ball every once in a while, but he's too static, too slow...too easy to mark.
Neymar needs a body, he fell too easily (not to say we didn't kick some asses out there-we did went a bit violent there
-, but Neymar just fell flat when someone brushed him) and was rather easy to mark, inspite of his talent. Seriously having watch him play for Santos, in the Copa America and live in here so not worth the hype.
As for Thiago, he gave me a huge scare when he went down for a few minutes, it was nothing thankfully. Argh, Saborío (who missed a super easy chance at the start of the game), not only beat him int that chance, but won most of the aerial battles, his positioning wasn't always the best. That said, I enjoy how secure he is with his passing and most importantly, how he commands the defensive line. Probably Brazil's best last night (but still worried about some aspects on his game), but really a joy to watch live.
Us? Loved the defense, well organized, we have no one in the midfield that brains smartly and in attack, Saborío was great in pivot in the 1st half specially but dear god how did he miss that? And Parks was great in the second half, I still don't get why he was subbed out, the way he was playing + Campbell could've caused chaos in Brazil's backline (it bugged me that we didn't aim to shoot much too, specially since it was pouring rain). Clinical finishing and the game would've been a draw maybe even a win, cause Brazil didn't actully created much overall, and were super slow, and there were times in the match were we control the possession (which I find it ridiculous).
The only thing I'm truely disgusted with are the "fans" that went to the stadium (I don't have a problem with the stadium not being full, rightfully, it was ridiculously expensive, prices in Mexico are much more lower and their playing in a similar capacity stadium), sat next to two girls from here that whenever Brazil attacked were waiting for their goal (obviously they just knew who Neymar, Ronaldinho, Marcelo and Dani Alves were, ok and Julio Cesar, and whenever some brazilian did a nice pass "oh my GOD DID YOU SEE THAT" yeah look we just did the same pass now...or worse yet when we fouled them "oh that animal, how dare he do that to Ronaldinho" airheads), I told them off "why Brazil to score? We're Costa Ricans, fuck them". They gave me the eye, which was fun
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People with Brazil jerseys and celebrating Neymar's goal...and jeering our team, FUCK THEM. Possibly the one reason I hate we play against this NTs is that: the people that go to the stadium are just gloryhunters who know jack shit about football, and then they feel they have the right to talk shit about our NT, we're screwed for the existance of fans like those. The enviroment was lame to say the least (it doesn't help that it's an Olympic stadium), people cheering brazilian players when they went out and the ones that came in...no one jeering their names when their starting lineup was announced, no one screaming the last names of our players when our starting lineup was announced. Lame lame lame. I know it's a friendly and that brazilians were super cool with the fans and the press in here, but fuck it, in the pitch they're rivals.