Revealed: The reasons for Brazil’s failure
Anyone who watched Brazil play cannot be anything but disappointed by the Seleçao’s performances. Newspaper Folha of Sao Paulo has now revealed the reasons behind the teams poor showing. The paper claims that the camp was divided, with half of the squad in favour of heavy drinking and other forms of “excess“, with the remainder shunning such behaviour especially during a World Cup. Surprise, surpise, two of the main culprits were Ronaldo and Adriano, who smoked and drank heavily on their days off. Kaka, Lucio, Luisao, Cris and Ze Roberto were (understandably) angered by such behaviour with Ze Roberto saying “I tried my hardest but every player must ask himself whether he did“. One day after Brazil’s exit to France, Adriano and Ronaldo were spotted out clubbing and team-mates have accused Ronaldo of only being interested in breaking the World Cup goals record (which he did).
Cafu is another who does not escape criticism - the accusation against him is that his primary motivation was to break the record for the highest number of appearances in World Cup finals matches and that he did not care about how the team did. This seems a strange charge to hold against him - surely Brazil’s progress in the tournament would also help him improve his record!Whatever the truth, the fact is that World Cups are not won on reputation but on performance and this is why Brazil failed.
