How a yellow jersey is dividing Brazil’s soccer world
Rio de Janiero, Brazil – Rio de Janiero may seem like a fairly remote place to fly into; for the past few months, most international fliers have had to fly into Recife, across the border.
But on arrival, you will find yourself in a city that is almost completely dedicated to soccer. The city’s streets are lined with fans, clad in yellow and blue (the national team kit colours) and standing shoulder to shoulder in a way that only the biggest cities in the world can.
And in the centre of those cheering crowds is the Olympic Stadium, where the squad will be training on and off the pitch for the next month.
The squad will play in a tournament during which they will have to win, draw or lose to qualify for the final tournament, which is for the teams who do not qualify for the final tournament.
If Brazil wins the event, it has an excellent chance to qualify for the World Cup in Russia, which will be held there for the first time since 1958.
And, if Brazil does not win the tournament, it will also have an excellent chance.
“We’re going to Russia in the first phase for the World Cup, that’s going to be fantastic for the team,” said midfielder Bernardão. “We need to qualify, so this is a competition in which, if we win, it’s going to be incredible, because then we will be qualified and if we lose, then we’ll have to fight for the first time in history to go to Russia.
Brazil’s squad for the tournament, which kicks off in June, includes six of their players who were part of the squad that won the Confederations Cup final in Russia in May.
The squad for the tournament includes players from throughout the country, so a fair number of the players on the squad are people from smaller towns not in the cities of Rio de Janiero.
But there they are on the team.
“There are a lot of them, and each of them thinks he should be a part of the national team, and so they have come to Rio de Janiero to improve their lives,” said Raphael Miranda, the coach of the national team.
Miranda and his staff have brought in coaches from across
