The “ PARADIGMS ” Of The Undoing Of The Brazilian “ Coaches ” and the Recent failure of Brazil in Football

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The “ PARADIGMS ” Of The   Undoing Of The Brazilian “ Coaches ” and the failure of Brazil in Football

The failure of Brazil in the 1982 World Cup football when it was declared on the earth by everybody that THIS IS THE BEST TEAM IN TERMS OF TECHNICALITY EVER PRODUCED BY BRAZIL of a football team that Brazil possesses and had produced, till then,  and again its failure ie the failure of Brazil  to win the 1986 the 1990 the 2018 football World Cup raises many a question.

 WHY IS THAT BRAZIL WITH THAT KIND OF SUPERIOR TECHNICAL SIDE COULD NOT WIN IN EITHER OF 1982 OR 1986 or why is that with that kind of such a superlative players like Careca, Bebeto and Romario along with Dunga, that Brazil could not win the World Cup in 1990.

Again the Brazil team of 2018 was perhaps the BEST team in the entire World Cup amongst all the team that participated in the World Cup yet it could not win the World Cup- WHY remains the question.

Well there are many that could be answered as a valid point but I have analsysed some of them which are most crucial and important. Let me start with the exit of Brazil in the 2018 world Cup football. Public memory is too short and if I always take them back to the seventies and the eighties perhaps the present generation will never like to read it so I'm taking the latest to start with and moving down to the last for the benefit of the readers

World Cup Football 2018-:

World Cup 2018: Brazil’s exit was like a family death for a nation that has been spoilt by success The day after it made it’s exit, the SATURDAY morning – the day after Brazil have been knocked out of the World Cup, and the gloom on the streets of Rio de Janeiro was so strong you can almost touch it.

One conversation was all about the team’s terrible performance.

In another a middle-aged man  then was s emphasizing that he had never had any faith in the goalkeeper despite the fact that the BRAZILIAN GOALKEEPEER before the start of the tourney was considered to be ONE of the BEST goalkeeper in the World playing for Brazil in the 2018 edition of the tournament . One silly mistake by him against Belgium and he was all gone.

A newspaper proclaims on its front page that “ Brazil is still the team of the 7-1” - that astonishing capitulation to Germany on home soil four years ago then in 2014 .

There is a collective sense of a death in the family. The evangelical Christians were  out in the streets looking for converts, trying to replace that void that people feel with religious feeling. They do not really understand about what is that it has hit the Brazilian football that it chokes up in the crucial moment to lose to it’s opponent which are not at all worth beating them in any manner.

The World Cup in Brazil  which Brazil had staged in 2014, has suffered from all of the excess spending on hosting the tournament four years ago, the unnecessary stadiums that were built and the promises that were not kept.

It has suffered from the 7-1. And it has suffered that year  in 2018 against Belgium, from the dreadful time that the country is going through, full of political and economic problems, full of divisions and little sign of hope on the horizon.

But the World Cup remains huge in Brazil, a massive civic event.

People decorate their streets, hanging yellow and green bunting all over the place, doing street paintings of the players, displaying the Brazil flag and those of other competing nations. The TV coverage is wall to wall, 24 hours a day. It is impossible to escape.

And yet the World Cup experience in Brazil lacks something.

Being so successful – Brazil are the only country to have lifted the trophy five times – has set the bar very high.

Going into the tournament,  everytime with such a unbelievable record, and with a class of the examples of the qualifications beside adding to the Intercontinental Federation Cup that they win, there are only two possible results;  in the World Cup proper for Brazil, either Brazil will win the cup, or they will lose it. It is a binary choice, heads or tails in a contest that starts out with 32 candidates.

The people have been spoiled by success. It leads to excesses of expectation.

And so if anything less than victory in the final is a failure, the missing factor is obvious; what a World Cup in Brazil does not have is the sheer enjoyment of the ride, hanging on to every moment and the crazy emotions they bring to the surface.

In short, there is no possibility for that exhilarating surprise joy of doing better than you expected – the type of feeling,and the feeling of football when it relates to the history of Brazil it becomes very hard for one to digest the Brazilian losses.

What is going WRONG in Brazilian football - ::

The basic problem is the TUNING of the players. From 1930 to about 1986 NONE of the Brazilian players went out to Europe for earning They did not join any European club for their earning The Brazilian clubs whatever they paid was enough for the former Brazilian players to earn for a living After their football career was over these Brazilian players would take any job which would include from writing to politics to sales and marketing - least is connecting themselves as a coach .

The HEAVY flux of inflation which started hitting the Brazilian economy saw its fortune being changed and the players 99% of them coming from a very HUMBLE background started moving to Europe from 1988.  Romario was the first to be signed by the P S V Eindhoven , Bebeto followed it with  De La Coruna of Spain Careca went to Napoli to be with Maradona and so hence and so forth

The slow immigration which satiated and started 1988 later became the FASHION of the day for the Brazilian footballers.  HUGE money that the European club pays and the fortune that these Brazilians would make out of the money earned aided by the SQUIGGLING and SWATTERING inflation at Brazil made these money earned from the foreign especially the European clubs a LIFE top live with EASILY

In Europe these Brazilian players are MOULDED into the European Clubs style of play and the way those coaches of either Manchester United ,or Totenham Hotspur at England or Saint Germain Paris, Juventus or F C Barcelone or Real Madrid wishes to mould the players the Brazilian players mould themselves in that fashion and manner They play the European club style of game The USUAL MAGICAL Brazilian style very fast and very rapidly gets out of their life and the game

However when they land at Brazil to play for Brazil and when the Brazilian coaches make them to follow the Brazilian style which depends on the small and quick bout of passes, the DRIBBLES and SNEAKS within the gap with that accuracy and speed and the twist and the twill of the body – it becomes very hard for these players to adjust to that kind of a game No sooner that the physicality of the Europeans also mixes and aids with the game to destruct and stop these Brazilians they find themselves totally in the DARK OUT- CLASSED & FOXED:: CAGED INTO THE ZOO for everything The end result is a disaster

NEED OF THE HOUR- ::

Brazil REALLY has to rethink that WHICH way it needs to go Whether it would believe in their MAGIC and the TREAT which is a TREAT OF FEAST to football and the fans world over or the European one If it has to follow the European one then what has happened to the ASIAN HOCKEY will happen to the Brazilian football

Hockey is DEAD after the ASIAN style of hockey has been KILLED by the EUROPEANS

FOOTBAL WILL BE DEAD IF THE BRAZILIANS STYLE OF FOOTBALL IS GONE AND KILLED

It is for Brazil to THINK and RETHINK as to which way it needs to go Better BRAZIL TRIES TO FIND ITSELF

Another WORLD CUP will come- that also will go If Brazil puts ONE of its LEG in ONE boat and the OTHER at the other then everything that Brazil has will go off fast and it will remain in the history of the sports page

BRAZIL REALLY HAS TO FIND ITSELF- :

The Brazilians and their body is well structured to play that ARTISTIC-CREATIVE-MAGICAL soccer and that is where their future is It has to become BRAZILIANS rather than becoming the BRIDGE of the River Thames or the PUBS of Barcelona and Madrid or the Churches of England and Italy

HOWEVER BRAZIL NEEDS TO FIND ITSELF CORRECTLY

Me being an INDIAN I can suggest them They being the GOD of FOOTBALL will have to find which way to go so that the WORLD keeps on WORSHIPING them

VULNERABILITY OF BRAZILIAN COACHES -:

The trend still continues. The vulnerability of the Brazilian coaches right from the inception to this date of the competition continues

Pics :: The present Brazilian Coach Mr Tite 
Let me start with this World Cup.The present Brazilian coach Mr tite, for his personal diffeernces with Oscar who was far and far and way ahead of players like like Coutinho, was not included in the list of eighteen. The reason cited were two.The First ofcourse is and was that Oscar wanted his professional football career to be continued at China for a Chinese club.That was a hefty amount.
 I CANNOT SEE MY FAMILY STARVING AFTER THE WORLD CUP- was his voice and so it is pertinent and important for me to pay at China for my future.I want an assurance from the Brazilian .

Pic - : The " ebullient" Brazilian player, Oscar 
authorities to cover up up my losses if incase any that would arise for leaving out the Chinese contract.If they give it to me in writing well, I'm there for Brazil he said. This was not taken up in a proper manner by the present Coach of Brazil.There started existing MILLIONS of personal differences and that set the tone and Oscar was out of the team from Brazil.The loss was of Brazil and not Oscar. No Coach in this World worth his name and post as a Coach would try to ever drop a player like Oscar if he has him in his side but the Btazilian Coaches and their mental make up and the level of thinking are such.
The Worst of the Coach's decision : Not fielding Leonidas from the start in 1938 semis

From not playing Leonidas from the word go in 1938 in the semis right from the word go ,  against Italy to not playing Costa in this World Cup ie , the World Cup of 2018, to NOT fielding and giving a place to Oscar in the squad of 2018,  the Brazilian team has suffered from the wrong decision and the planning of the coaches from time to time

Individual flair of the Brazilians and the kind of the HEIGHT that some Brazilian footballer always had possessed their presence always had the Brazilian coaches covered and their instabilty to take the right decision getting overshadowed by these SUN and the 9th sky of the star had its effect always on the overall performance of their team and this World Cup was no different

 I cite the World Cup 2018 as an example, and I write that knowing fully well that their two most important players Danileo and one along with him will not be available any further in this tourney because of the injury Brazilian coach should have preferred a taller player in the place of Daniello at the defence

Then knowing well that Casemiro will not be playing because of the yellow card problem , there was no need to play Fernandinho at his place He should have started with someone who did play the qualifiers brilliantly He instead put Fernandinho who was today responsible for letting that self goal.

Also seeing that Gabriel Jesus was short of everything in the three matches played so far he should have preferred Costa the one who reduced that margin against Belgium.  What a beautiful ball player is this man and what a way he opens in front of the opponent's goal .Yet he was consistently ignored in prefernce to Jesus and that ws the undoing. 

Infact with two of the very good players of Brazil Danielo and his one cobber not any more fit themselves to play in the World Cup because of the injury metted to them by their opponent by their physicality and with Gabriel Jesus failing to come up to the terms the Brazilian coach should have played Neymar in the middle more rather than the left and should have allowed Costa and Firminho more to operate from the strikers position That would have fetched more positive result .

The way Brazil missed four open chances in the Quarter-finals against Belgium,  and the way the Belgian goalkeeper saved four sure shot goal bound shot aided to the FACT that a genuine penalty was denied to Brazil the Brazilian coach should have had more flexible planning for this match Even after playing such a NEAT and BRILLIANT soccer after trailing by 0-2 the coach should have changed the players at the right time as well his tactics too . That he did not do at at the most appropriate time.Even after completely dominating the game in the second half against Belgium the Brazilians had to pack and go.

Casemiro not playing at the centre today also put Willian plan in the shade and actually the two injuries as well the wrong fieldings of the players like to start with Fernandinho and Jesus made the things very bad for Brazil The Brazilian coach, Mr Tite,  did not read the pre game analysis properly
Brazilian Coaches at times nothing short of " Tourist " 

The Brazilian coaches for most of the time in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1986 were nothing short of a TOURIST with the side. The fact is ONE of their player who really was ABOVE THE GOD FIGURE controlled the team and the others with such a LOAD of BOUNDLESS TALENT revolved and played according to his planning. The cases of the Brazilian side from 1958 to 1970 revolved around Pele and Garrincha, and whatever Pele told the players did and whatever the players combined could not do, Garrincha did that . The Brazilian coach had no say or no answer to anything as such.

One of the Brazilian journalist between the period of 1958 to 1970 writing on Brazilian football had wriiten- WHY IS THAT BRAZIL NEEDS A NATIONAL COACH AT ALL.

That the Brazilian coach has NO SAY in the planning and in the process of playing his team according to his will was reflected in the 1982 World Cup. Brazil needed only a draw against Italy to make it to the last four. In that league game Italy went ahead twice through Paolo Rossi and Brazil equalized.

Pics-: Tele Santana

With two minutes remaining any Coach in the World would have gone in for a TIME-WASTING tactics, but the Brazilian players headed by Zico, went in for the kill leaving their defence wide open.  It was NOT the Coach of the Brazilian side then, but the decision of players like Zico and Socrates who would NEVER compromise on the QUALITY of the game to be dropped just because of a silly reason saw them attacking like a wounded Lion but that counter was just mote than enough to send them packing and with ONLY the FAIR-PLAY Trophy in their hand. A counter saw them conceding the goal as the defense was not there to save the goal and Paolo Rossi made the unbelievable happen everybody to believe.Brazil were knocked out of the 1982 World Cup.

 A TEAM THAT SHOULD HAVE WON THE WORLD CUP FINISHED WINNING THE FAIR PLAY TROPHY

Brazil’s instinct of NOT-PLAYING-NEGATIVE-FOOTBALL  and stick to it’s principle of playing the most positive football, send them empty hand in the World cup 1982, despite the fact with Zico, Socrates, Junior and Sergio, they had the BEST of the MIDFIELDER in the World and they gave just a eye pleasing account of the most attractive blend of playing the  calculative-and-percentage-soccer.

The one who had to face the most of it in terms of the wrath was their Coach Tele Santana.

In 1990 the Brazilain coach Sebastio Lazaroni,  no can knows why despite of having TWO such a brilliant player in Romario and Beboto, the Brazilian coach kept them aside and fielded a player in the upfront to assist Careca who was nowhere near to the standard of either Bebeto or Romario. Over it instead of playing the natural Brazilian flair of soccer he played a kind of an Algerian brand of soccer.Obviously if you play a Algerian brand of soccer for Brazil you cannot win the World Cup and that is what it happened.

Pics-Sebastio Lazaroni, one of the "WORST" Coach to have ever coached Brazil 

One mistake by Dunga saw Maradona getting a space and that ONE defense pass by Maradona to his striker was enough to send Brazil out of the world Cup inspite of the fact that Brazil completely had dominated Argentina in that match.

Well that tournament saw Brazil one of the most insipid soccer and it perhaps gave one of the most BOGUS kind of a performance on the field and there was many a differences of the opinion between this Coach and some of the players who were playing for Brazil. Infact Careca and Dunga had gone to the extent that the calibre of Lazaroni was such that he would not be considered even to be a coach of the fifth division team of Sao Paolo.

Never after 1990 Brazil and it’s Coach had the BEST relation with them that could have served the team well. It was the brilliance of Romario in 1994 that won them the World Cup then. The Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, then had dropped the captain of the side and had made Dunga the Captain to lead the team . Dunga actually was not even the Vice-Captain when the team as declared at Brazil.

In 1999 when Brazil were playing their qualification with Romario leading the side they had lost to Uruguay by 1-2 . There was a heated argument by the Coach Scolari and Romario.Immediately Scolari dropped Romario for the remaining of the matches.

Pic- : Scolari the Brazilian Coach who "TOSSED " the orders of their President to drop Romario

 Ind-spite and inspite  of Romario pleading to Scolari on a national scale and nationally,  and inspite of Scolari being asked by the Brazilian President Mr Lula then, Scolari did not include Romario in the squad. Though Brazil went on to win the world Cup in 2002 after playing the play off match which is considered to be a a BONUS-QUALIFICATION match against Australia in which they beat Australia by 2-0. It had appeared that Brazil would NOT qualify at all at one stage.  Persistent request of the President Of Brazil too did not have any effect on Scolari.

The same happened when Mario Zagallo dropped Romario from the squad in 1998 after he had met with an injury.Though Romario had by then recovered and was in a position to play for Brazil he was not included in the side. 

Pic- : Mario Zagallo , the Brazilian Coach who won the World Cup as a player in 1962 

After Brazil had lost to France by 3-0 in the finals, Romario got some COMMOT prepared exactly in the shape of Zagallo’s face and some he put it in the public place for the people to use that, and three in the house where he stayed at Brazil, ie in his own house at the toilet.That really speaks all about the coaches of Brazil and the relation that exists between his players.

I again end up saying that - It is for Brazil to THINK and RETHINK as to which way it needs to go Better BRAZIL TRIES TO FIND ITSELF.

 That is it

Regards

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing 

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