“This is the Olympic team”, Micale told a media conference. Brazil has outscored opponents 12-0 in its last three matches.
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Rio de Janeiro, Aug 18: Brazil smashed Honduras 6-0 in the semi-finals and will play Germany in the final of the men’s football tournament at the Rio Olympic Games.
Nigeria won gold at the 1996 Olympics with a 3-2 victory over Argentina, then won silver in 2008, falling to Argentina 1-0 in the final. That doesn’t mean that defeating the rivals in the Olympic final wouldn’t have a special sweetness.
Most Brazilian players were already back in the locker room when Neymar rushed across the field at Maracana Stadium to celebrate with the fans. “Neymar never played in that match so there is nothing that could generate any type of feeling that we have to take revenge. It is a different time with different players”, Micale said. In the semifinal match against Honduras, Brazil thrashed the competition and ended the game with a 6-0 scoreline.
They will feel the heat from most of the crowd but could adopt the mind-control technique of the beach volleyball players who faced a Brazilian pair in the final, and blocked out the noise from the partisans, to win gold.
“Any scheme will fall apart when you concede a goal with 15 seconds because of your own mistake”, Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pinto said.
With the Rio Olympics quickly approaching the finish line, the various tournaments are finally coming to a close including the 2016 Women’s Soccer tournament!
Brazil started the day 16th in the medal standings, with only three golds in the first 11 days.
Brazil’s star forward Neymar and Borussia Dortmund’s Matthias Ginter are the only two players who were in their respective nations’ World Cup 2014 squads. “He has the gift of playing football, he delights everyone with his talent”, according to ABC. “We will give our best to win the gold”.
“We have experienced players who will help them. Without him playing the way he is playing, I don’t think this team would have been in the final”. What happened in the past is in the past, nothing is going to change that, even if we win by seven goals.
Japan’s Kaori Icho has become the first wrestler in Olympic history to win four gold medals, beating Russia’s Valeriia Koblova Zholobova 3-2 in 58-kilogram women’s freestyle.
Brazil had made three previous finals (1984, 1988 and 2012) in the men’s competition but lost all three.
The Germans would have the last say, as Petersen put it beyond Daniel on the dot of time after a fast break by the Germans.
However, there was no repeat of his tears of anguish when carried off with two broken vertebrae in his back that ended his World Cup participation in a brutal quarter-final against Colombia two years ago. Rodrigo Caio, 23, plays for Brazilian club Sao Paulo but soon will be on his way to Europe. The pressure, whether rightly or wrongly placed, of making up for the World Cup loss to Brazil.
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It was also a red-letter day for golf as a women’s tournament teed-off for for the first time in 116 years.
