Football World Cup 2014 / Brazil

This article covers the Brazilian national football team at the 2014 World Cup . Brazil hosted for the second time and made it to the finals for the 20th time. Brazil was also the only country represented at all previous finals. After losing to Germany in the semi-finals and the Netherlands in the game for third place, fourth place was taken.

qualification

On October 30, 2007, Brazil was chosen to host the 2014 World Cup and was thus automatically qualified.

preparation

Since Brazil did not have to contest a qualification, all games for the 2014 World Cup were played after the 2010 World Cup. For example, a team supervised by the then national coach Mano Menezes took part in the 2012 Olympic Games , in which players who had prospects for the senior national team were grouped together. In addition, in 2011, in consultation with Argentina, which also failed in the quarter-finals in 2006 and 2010, the Copa Roca was renamed as Superclássico das Américas . However, since the games take place on days that are not reserved by FIFA for international matches and therefore no players active in Europe can be used, only the players who were active in the leagues of Argentina and Brazil were used in these games. In 2011 and 2012, Brazil won the competition. Mano Menezes was fired shortly afterwards and Luiz Felipe Scolari was his successor, assisted by Carlos Alberto Parreira as technical director. With both of them the last world championship titles were won in 2002 and 1994 respectively and they managed to lead the Brazilian team to victory at the Confederations Cup 2013 , with world champions Spain being defeated 3-0 in the final.

Squad

The Brazilian national team's provisional squad was announced on May 7th. Five players were also in the squad that was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the last World Cup, as well as Fred , who, like Júlio César, was already there in 2006. Five players were part of the squad that won the silver medal at the last Olympic Games.

No.	player	Club 1	International matches 2	Länderspiel- gates 2	Date of birth	Games	Gates				World Cup participation	World Cup games (total)	World Cup goals (total)
goalkeeper
01	Jefferson	Botafogo FR	9	0	0Jan. 2, 1983	0	0	0	0	0	2014
12	Júlio César	Toronto FC	80	0	03rd Sep 1979	7th	0	1	0	0	2006, 2010, 2014	12	0
22nd	Victor	Atlético Mineiro	6th	0	Jan. 21, 1983	0	0	0	0	0	2014
Defense
02	Dani Alves	FC Barcelona	75	6th	0May 6, 1983	4th	0	1	0	0	2010, 2014	9	0
03	Thiago Silva	Paris Saint-Germain M.	46	2	22 Sep 1984	6th	1	3	0	0	2010, 2014	6th	0
04th	David Luiz	Paris Saint-Germain M.	36	0	Apr 22, 1987	7th	2	1	0	0	2014	7th	2
06th	Marcelo	Real Madrid C, P	31	4th	May 12, 1988	6th	0	0	0	0	2014	6th
13	Dante	FC Bayern Munich M, P	12	2	Oct 18, 1983	1	0	1	0	0	2014	1
14th	Maxwell	Paris Saint-Germain M.	9	0	Aug 27, 1981	1	0	0	0	0	2014	1
15th	Henrique	SSC Naples P	5	0	Oct 14, 1986	1	0	0	0	0	2014	1
23	Maicon	AS Roma	72	7th	July 26, 1981	3	0	0	0	0	2010, 2014	8th	1
midfield
05	Fernandinho	Manchester City M	7th	1	0May 4th 1985	5	1	1	0	0	2014	5	1
08th	Paulinho	Tottenham Hotspur	26th	5	July 25, 1988	6th	0	0	0	0	2014	6th
11	Oscar	Chelsea FC	31	9	0Sep 9 1991	7th	2	1	0	0	2014	7th	2
16	Ramires	Chelsea FC	42	4th	24 Mar 1987	7th	0	0	0	0	2010, 2014	11	0
17th	Luiz Gustavo	VfL Wolfsburg	19th	1	July 23, 1987	6th	0	2	0	0	2014	6th
18th	Hernanes	Inter Milan	24	2	May 29, 1985	3	0	0	0	0	2014	3
19th	Willian	Chelsea FC	7th	2	0Aug 9, 1988	5	0	0	0	0	2014	5
20th	Bernard	Shakhtar Donetsk M.	11	1	08 Sep 1992	3	0	0	0	0	2014	3
attack
07th	Hulk	Zenit Saint Petersburg	35	9	July 25, 1986	6th	0	1	0	0	2014	6th
09	Fred	Fluminense FC	33	17th	0Oct 3, 1983	6th	1	0	0	0	2006, 2014	6th	1
10	Neymar	FC Barcelona	49	31	0Feb 5, 1992	5	4th	1	0	0	2014	5	4th
21st	Jô	Atlético Mineiro	17th	5	20 Mar 1987	3	0	1	0	0	2014	3
Coaching staff
	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Trainer			0Nov 9, 1948	7th					2002, 2006, 2014 3	21st
	Flávio Murtosa	Assistant coach			Jan. 14, 1951
	Carlos Pracidelli	Goalkeeping coach			03rd Mar 1957
	Paulo Paixão	Fitness trainer			23 Mar 1951

¹C - The club won the UEFA Champions League in the 2013/14 season , M - The club became champions of its country in the 2013/14 season, P - The club won its country's cup from

²only the games and goals that were played or scored before the start of the World Cup are given. (As of May 16, 2014), updated after the games against Panama on June 3, 2014 and Serbia on June 6, 2014

³ 2002 with Brazil (world champion), 2006 with Portugal (fourth)

Test matches 2014

• March 5 in Johannesburg against South Africa : 5: 0 (goal scorers: Oscar / 10th, Neymar / 41st, 46th and 90th and Fernandinho / 79th)
• June 3 in Goiânia against Panama : 4: 0 (goal scorers: Neymar / 27th, Dani Alves / 40th, Hulk / 46th and Willian / 73rd)
• June 6 in São Paulo against Serbia : 1-0 (goalscorer: Fred / 58th)

Finals

Group stage

São Paulo Brasília Fortaleza Teresópolis Belo Horizonte

Preliminary round location (red), eighth and semi-final location (green), preliminary round and quarter final location (yellow), preliminary round and location of the match for 3rd place (pink) and quarters (blue)

Even before the draw for the final round on December 6, 2013, Brazil was identified as the group head of Group A and one of the two teams that played the opening game. At the drawing, Cameroon, Croatia and Mexico were drawn. Brazil also played against Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup preliminary round and in the preliminary rounds of the Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003. The pre-World Cup record against Cameroon is positive with three wins and one defeat. Brazil also played against Mexico in the preliminary rounds of the World Cup in 1950, 1954 and 1962. Most recently they won 2-0 at the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2013. Before that, however, a Brazilian team with numerous current senior international players lost to another numerous current senior national players occupied the Mexican team in the final of the Olympic Games 2012. Brazil is the third most popular opponent of the Mexicans after the USA and Costa Rica. The pre-World Cup balance is positive with 22 wins, 6 draws and 10 defeats. Brazil last played against Croatia in the 2006 World Cup preliminary round and won 1-0. The other two games ended in a draw. The last group game was the 100th World Cup game for Brazil. Only Germany had already played more World Cup games at the time.

The team's quarters and training facility were the Almirante Heleno Nunes training center of the Brazilian Association in Teresópolis .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	7: 2	7th
2	Mexico	4: 1	7th
3	Croatia	6: 6	3
4th	Cameroon	1: 9	0

• Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in São Paulo Brazil - Croatia 3: 1 (1: 1)
  

• Tue., June 17, 2014, 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza Brazil - Mexico 0: 0
  

• Mon., June 23, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Brasília Cameroon - Brazil 1: 4 (1: 2)
  

Knockout round

• Round of 16: Sat. June 28, 2014, 1:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte Brazil - Chile 1: 1 a.s. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 2 i. E.
  

For the third time, Brazil met Chile in the round of 16. This is the most common pairing of the last sixteen in World Cup history. The record against Chile before the game was positive with 48 wins, 13 draws and 7 defeats. The previous World Cup games against Chile were all won, most recently in 2010 3-0 in the round of 16.

• Quarter-finals: Fri July 4, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Fortaleza Brazil - Colombia 2: 1 (1: 0)
  

In the quarter-finals, Brazil had to do without Luiz Gustavo , who was suspended after two yellow cards. The senior national team had previously played against Colombia 24 times, 14 of which were won, 8 - the last 4 of which - ended in a draw and two were lost. They have never met at world championships.

• Semi-finals: Tuesday July 8, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte Brazil - Germany 1: 7 (0: 5)
   

→ Main article : Football World Cup semi-finals Brazil - Germany 2014

In the semi-finals, Brazil had to do without captain Thiago Silva , who was suspended after two yellow cards. The striker Neymar was out for the remainder of the World Cup due to a lumbar vertebra fracture, which he sustained in a foul in the quarter-finals. Previously there were 21 games against Germany, 12 of which were won, 5 ended in a draw and 4 were lost. At world championships there was only one encounter in the 2002 final, which Brazil won 2-0. Germany won the last match before the World Cup between the two on August 10, 2011 3-2. In Brazil, Germany had never before won against Brazil. The 7-1 defeat is one of the two biggest defeats in Brazil and the biggest loss for a World Cup host.

• Game for 3rd place: Sat. July 12, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Brasília Brazil - Netherlands 0: 3 (0: 2)
   

Both met 11 times before and each team won three times. Five games ended in a draw. The goal difference was also equal before at 15:15. There have been four games at World Cups, Brazil won one normally, one on penalties and two lost.

Sports impact

On July 14th, the Brazilian Football Association CBF ended its collaboration with coach Luiz Felipe Scolari , technical director Carlos Alberto Parreira and the rest of the coaching staff. Successor as national coach was Dunga , with whom Brazil failed in the quarterfinals in 2010.

In the FIFA world rankings , Brazil fell four places from third to seventh place and were initially no longer the best South American team in the rankings as Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay overtook them. It was not until April 2017 that Brazil was able to oust the Argentinians, who had meanwhile moved up to number 1, from the top of the ranking and become the best-placed South American team again.

Resignations

Goalkeeper Júlio César and striker Fred ended their national team careers after the World Cup. Fred feared becoming "the new Barbosa of Brazil".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kicker.de: "Brazil: Rafinha is missing in the squad - Scolari trusts Dante and Luiz Gustavo"
2. ↑ resources.fifa.com: Release List of Players , PDF, 11.9MB (English); Retrieved June 3, 2014
3. ↑ fifa.com: team quarters
4. ↑ Disappointing home World Cup: Out for Brazil coach Scolari. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, July 15, 2014, accessed July 17, 2014 . 
5. ↑ fifa.com: "World Champion Germany takes over the top position"
6. ↑ Brazil striker Fred: "For me the Seleção is over". In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, July 13, 2014, accessed July 26, 2014 . 

Web links

• All matches of the preliminary round at a glance