Klostermann scored in the ninth minute off a cross from captain Maximilian Meyer, beating fallen Nigeria goalkeeper Emmanuel Daniel.
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If we play like we’ve did today, keep our focus and our fans come out to support us, I believe we can face any challenge and achieve that gold medal and make history for Brazil.
The Olympic men’s soccer finals will be held at Rio’s iconic Maracana Stadium.
The Barcelona ace was at his brilliant best in the semi finals vs. Honduras, scoring twice and grabbing a pair of assists to help his country to a 6-0 win on Wednesday. “We will give our best to win the gold”.
Germany’s defence will now be tested against a Brazil side that, during the course of the competition, has proved one of the oldest truisms in the game: It is when the collective balance of a team is sound that the individual talent appears.
After beginning the Olympic tournament with two goalless draws, Brazil have won their past three matches by an aggregate of 12 goals.
Skipper Neymar and six-goal hosts Brazil will play in the Olympic Games gold medal match in Maracana on Friday after running away with their semi-final against rank outsiders Honduras.
After two awful performances against South Africa and Iraq – two scoreless ties – Brazil has scored 12 goals and the team finally seems to have gelled.
He was also on the national team eliminated by Germany’s senior squad after an embarrassing 7-1 loss in World Cup semifinals two years ago, although he didn’t play because of a back injury sustained in the quarterfinals against Colombia. The Chinese men’s team, led by Ma Long, who had already won the men’s singles, defeated Japan in the final. “Neymar never played in that match so there is nothing that could generate any type of feeling that we have to take revenge”.
They came to Brazil with no players from the country’s dominant club Bayern Munich and only four from the other three clubs that finished in the top four of last year’s Bundesliga.
“This is the Olympic team”, Micale told a media conference.
“We are impatient. We think we have to start at zero as soon as something goes wrong”.
Brazilian fans were given a scare as Neymar had to be stretchered off the field after awkwardly falling while scoring the history-making goal.
“We know that here, when the team is not winning, the verdicts are very tough”.
Victory also guaranteed Brazil a fourth Olympic men s football medal, but after bronze in 1996 and 2008 and the shock of losing to Mexico in the London 2012 final, only gold will suffice for an expectant nation back at the Maracana on Saturday.
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“It was once in a lifetime; 7-1 was one time in a career, we will not win 7-1 against Brazil”.
