In their prime these lot would have wiped the floor with anyone. Werther's Originals at the ready folks, here's the World Cup Old Folks XI.
A knee injury threatened to rule out everyone’s favourite sh*thouse, but Pepe’s proved his fitness and we will have the pleasure of seeing him pinching strikers, feigning injury and shouting at referees in an eighth major tournament.Brazil haven’t been all that likeable for a while now. They’re nowhere near as fun as the squads of the noughties, are mostly functional, and those that would be described as the flair players aren’t rooted for by the masses in the same way as Ronaldinho or Ronaldo.
It would, however, be rather nice to see Thiago Silva lifting the World Cup. And manager Tite will be hoping suspension doesn’t rule the centre-back out of a key game this time, as with no-one to hold David Luiz’s leash against Germany in 2014, Brazil infamously lost 7-1.18 caps shy of Yasuhito Endo’s record of 152, Nagatomo becomes the first Japanese player to feature in four World Cups on the bounce.
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