Football Daily | Will there be no more Neymar for Brazil?
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It has been rather an underwhelming World Cup cycle for Brazil. They arrived at the Human Rights World Cup as fairly hot favourites but after their exit at the hands of Croatia in the last eight in Al-Rayyan four years ago things have drifted. They went out in the quarter-finals at the 2024 Copa América, then limped through Conmebol qualifying for the Geopolitics World Cup, finishing fifth after six defeats – to Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina (twice), Paraguay and Bolivia – with their lowest points tally since South America switched to an 18-game format for the 2002 tournament. In October they lost 3-2 to Japan in a friendly and in November they were held to a 1-1 draw by Tunisia.
Following on from Ken Muir’s bin-related Spurs joke yesterday, maybe the next candidate for the Tottenham managerial merry-go-round should be the current boss of Dutch side Brabantia?” – Phil Taverner.
Re yesterday’s line about teenager Max Dowman fielding the ‘what did you get up to at the weekend?’ question as he walked through the school gates on Monday morning: surely the more obvious b@nter among those of that age would be ‘so I heard you scored on Saturday night?’ – Justin Kavanagh.
