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Me and the squad met up in a dis used sports ground in Bolivia. Before training me and a few players had a press conference. I knew that it would be about my squad selection. Not many people were pleased with Luizao being included. I myself did not see any wrong in this decision. It was mainly because of Ronaldinho being injured I called him up. Lots of Brazilians wanted Nilmar in the squad instead. But he had only scored 5 goals in 24 games this season whilst Luizao had scored 18 in around the same amount of games.

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Press Conference

Press: Will Juninho be captain.

Me: Yes.

Press: Ronaldinho injured so you choose Luizao as his replacement, even though there are players like Diego and Nilmar.

Me: Luizao scores goals and I want to try different players before the world cup.

Press: You still havn't qualified for the World Cup. How disapointed would you be if you ended up in the play off.

Me: I can't see that happening.


After the press conference I went to the training ground. The training session went well, Dani Alves looked very good playing in a training match.
I told the squad my line up:
-------------------Julio Cesar
Dani Alves---Lucio---Cris---Roberto Carlos
Mancini---Emerson---Juninho
Ronaldo----Adriano

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First Half
Excellent preformance.
I couldn't believe it.
One minute in Ronaldo was tackled and we had a penlaty. Mancini hit it straight at the keeper, it came back to Roberto Carlos, he hit it at the bar, it hit back to Juninho, he passed to Kaka and GOAL!
Then Kaka scored again. Then again. The made a brilliant pass to Adriano and GOAL!

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Second Half
Started with a bang. Juninho ran straight up the field and GOAL!
The team dominated all the second half.
The man of the match was Kaka for sure.

At the end of the match I was leaving for my private jet and Cafu approached me.
"You left me out of your line up. You have annoyed me..."

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Cafu was furious.
"I am a good player why should I not start, in fact why am I not on the bench?" he shouted.
"Calm down Cafu. I just wanted to try other players thats all."
"You have never liked me. Why an english manager? Why they appointed you! You strip me of the captaincy and now leave me out. This is not fair!."
"Look Cafu. Think about how lucky you are to be in the team, you are 35. How many players are still in international squads that played at the 1994 world cup? I will play you in some games but if you act like this everytime you are left out you will not be in my future squads. Now get out my way I have to get on my plane. I will see you in Brazil for the Venezuela match."

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The Venezuela match was my best so far.
Assuncao started and scored two goals. Ronaldo with the other.
The match ensured we qualified from the tight South American qualifying group and that we won the group.

I decided to go back to England for a few days and watch Berryhill town. Then maybe go and watch some Brazil based Brazilians.
I could see the World Cup in my hands already.

retired_jdupont

UAE and Australia are good opponents for the suggestion I made below (from the other page). :thup:

retired_nasty

After a few days break in England I returned to Brazil.
My scout advised me to watch some of the Internacional players. He told me Sobis was on the verge of breaking into the Brazil squad.