Soccer World Cup 1938 / Brazil

This article covers the Brazilian national soccer team at the 1938 World Cup in France .

qualification

Brazil should have played for qualification against Argentina in the two legs. However, as the Argentines withdrew their application, Brazil qualified for the World Cup without a fight.

Contingent

Surname		Association at the time	birthday	Sp.	goal	red
goalkeeper
	Batatais	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	05/02/1910	1	0	0
	Walter	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	07/17/1913	4th	0	0
Defense
	Domingos	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	11/19/1912	4th	0	0
	Yes	Corinthians São Paulo	11/17/1909	1	0	0
	Arthur Machado	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	01/01/1909	4th	0	1
	Martim Silveira	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	03/02/1911	3	0	0
midfield
	Afonsinho	São Cristóvão AC	09/21/1912	4th	0	0
	Argemiro	Portuguesa Santista	06/03/1915	1	0	0
	Brandão	Corinthians São Paulo	09/19/1916	2	0	0
	Brito	America Mineiro	03/06/1911	1	0	0
	Luisinho	Palestra Itália	03/20/1911	2	0	0
	Nariz	Botafogo FC	December 8, 1912	0	0	0
	Tim	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	02/20/1915	1	0	0
	Zezé Procópio	Botafogo FC	08/12/1913	4th	0	1
attack
	Hércules	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	07/02/1912	2	0	0
	Leônidas da Silva	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	09/06/1913	4th	7th	0
	Lopes	Corinthians São Paulo	02/25/1911	3	0	0
	Niginho	CR Vasco da Gama	02/12/1912	0	0	0
	Patesko	Botafogo FC	11/12/1910	3	0	0
	José Perácio	Botafogo FC	11/02/1917	4th	3	0
	Roberto	São Cristóvão AC	03/19/1913	2	1	0
	Romeu	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	03/26/1911	4th	3	0
Trainer
	Adhemar Pimenta		04/12/1896

Note: Leônidas da Silva was the regular captain. Due to his injury, he was represented in the semi-final match against Italy by Martim Silveira, captain in 1934.

Games

Round of 16

June 5, 1938

Strasbourg

Brazil

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Poland

6: 5 a.d.

The highly dramatic game against Poland went 4: 4 into overtime. There Leônidas da Silva scored two goals before the Pole Ernst Willimowski was able to shorten with his fourth goal. Nevertheless, Brazil reached the quarter-finals 6-5.

Quarter finals

June 12, 1938

Bordeaux

Brazil

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Czechoslovakia

1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)

June 14, 1938

Bordeaux

Brazil

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Czechoslovakia

2: 1 (0: 1)

In the quarter-finals, Brazil met the strong Czechoslovaks , who showed themselves to be equal opponents. After no team could prevail in the first leg even in extra time, the Brazilians won the replay 2-1 thanks to a brace from Leonidas.

Semifinals

June 16, 1938

Marseille

Italy

-

Brazil

2: 1 (2: 0)

In the semifinals, the Brazilians failed to Italy after they had previously won the games with luck and their football art shown for the first time in the world. The star of the team, Leonidas, was absent due to an injury sustained in the game against Czechoslovakia. Romeu only scored the goal for Brazil in the 87th minute to make it 1: 2.

3rd place match

June 19, 1938

Bordeaux

Brazil

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Sweden

4: 2 (1: 2)

After the disappointment of the semi-final defeat, the Brazilians were at least able to win the game for third place against Sweden . Although the Swedes led 2-1 at halftime, Leonidas (2) and Perácio turned the match to a 4-2 victory.

Remarkable

• Martim Silveira and Leônidas da Silva were the only players from the 1934 World Cup who were called up again.
• Leônida's seven World Cup goals in just four games are the second-most a Brazilian player at a World Cup today. That yield was only exceeded by Ademir de Menezes , who scored nine times in seven games in 1950 .

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