Originally posted by Cantona07:
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Is that why he is playing fo Brazil
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He plays for Brazil because he is skillful and Brazilians love tricks but you might have noticed he is a non-starter. Even Felipão, who absolutely adores him, was using him for shorter and shorter periods during the WC as he is wholy ineffective.
Go through his WC performances and you will notice:
1) In counter-attacking opportunities he wastes just enough time to let the 11th rival to get into the box.
2) He is the most effective weapon to mark Bobby Carlos out of a game. Just keeps dribbling up and down the touchline not only "closing space" for him to run into but also forcing him to stay back to stop the guy who will eventually get the ball from this twat.
3) I have seen him (not once, but several times) dribbling his way right across (i.e. along) the midfield line during a counter or, worse, running all the way from the rivals corner flag to Brazil's just to get a defender off his back (with occasional flicks along the way).
No wonder Brazilians think he is only good for Nike ads and that he belongs in the half time interval as an exhibition player.