The Brazil men’s soccer team is glorious to take a shot of their first-ever Olympic gold medal and the victorious moment would partially credit to one record-breaking 15-second play.
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Skipper Neymar led Brazil from the front and nearly single handedly took the hosts to the final of the mens football in the Rio Olympics.
Micale, who also led the Brazil under-20 side to the World Cup final a year ago, hopes a team not only boasting Neymar, but wonder kids Gabriel Jesus of Manchester City and the sought after Gabriel Barbosa will rekindle the “essence” of flair in Brazilian football. “For me, it’s an opportunity to turn around something the fans today talk about as the hard defeat and we’re going to reverse that result, God’s willing.” . Neymar also leads the Brazilian team in goals scored in the Olympic tournament with 4.
Said Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus, after the team’s semi-final win over Honduras: “This is what we wanted”. The game followed a bronze medal match in which Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross beat Brazil’s other women’s team, Larissa and Talita.
‘We will continue trying to understand, I confess that it is complex’.
This is the third straight Olympics in which Brazil has brought some of its best players looking for gold.
Hrubesch played down suggestions Brazil would be looking for revenge following a 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup. Struggling after several steps, he collapsed again and was stretchered off the field and attended to before being able to return.
Neymar and Brazil will now meet Germany in the final on Saturday and attempt to win their first Olympic gold medal in history. “Our forwards have scored 21 goals so it is a case of how Brazil will stop us”. “It helped us break the game open and it made everything easier”.
Nine minutes later, Neymar turned provider with a precise pass down the left that Jesus burst onto before crashing the ball into the roof of the net. It was Peterson’s sixth goal of the tournament.
“I’m happy for the goals but the most important thing is that we made it to the final”, said Gabriel Jesus, who before the Olympics signed with English club Manchester City. In the last four, the Spaniards must play the US, who let Argentina take an early lead before asserting their superiority for a 105-78 win.
Paris Saint-Germain defender Marquinhos took advantage of some terrible Honduras marking to make it 4-0 six minutes into the second-half. “It is a different time with different players and ages”.
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Neymar scored twice as Brazil routed Honduras 6-0 in their semifinal in front of a near-capacity crowd at the Maracana Stadium on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. “The supporters will want what they want, but there is no link between that match and this one”.
