Brazil World Cup Blog

Well, I correctly predicted the score of the Japan game, though I don’t think it was right to say it “[wouldn’t] feel quite as close...

In the end, if Brazil’s 3-0 win over Scotland on Wednesday wasn’t spectacular, it was certainly the most comfortable a Brazil win has felt in a while. We pounced on a few catastrophic Scottish mistakes, controlled the game well enough that Scotland had barely had a c...

I think it’s fair to expect that the side that goes on to win this World Cup will have done so by leaving a little something on the table at every opportunity. With a longer route to the final than ever before, in a particularly hot and humid part of the world, after a club season that only gets more oversaturated every year, it is extremely prudent to save your players’ bodi...

Folks, I have a confession to make: I was in a good mood after the Morocco game on Saturday.

I know, I know. The sky-is-falling reactions extended well beyond our own small and sometimes pessimistic community. Lots of people saw Brazil make countless sloppy giveaways and struggle to get anywhere near Morocco’s passing moves and assumed the worst about our World Cup...