Corruption also to blame for Brazil football woes: Romario EE
Rio de Janeiro* EE Brazilian footballing great turned politician Romario says corruption not just poor play was to blame for the country humiliating exit from the World Cup a year ago Wednesday // On the field, the diagnosis was obvious the panic and inability to react by the players, Romario said of the 7*1 collapse in the semi-final to Germany, who went on to win the tournament in Brazil // Romario, a star on Brazil`s 1994 World Cup winning team and now a senator, said however that the players were not the only culprits // Off the field, the problem was far worse* a complex web of corruption involving the CBF *ruling body*, federations clubs, agents, marketing businesses and managers, he wrote on his Facebook page // Together, they destroyed our football because they had one sole aim to get rich // A year after the embarrassing exit from a World Cup that Brazil was not only hosting but was under huge pressure to win, the football mad country`s sporting leaders are debating how to rebuild the team // The coach, Dunga, has warned that Brazil`s road back to dominance of world football will be neither easy nor quick // Romario EE said the fiasco at the World Cup saddened him, not because I wanted to be on the pitch, but because I have had a privileged view, already for several years, of Brazilian football`s deterioration // The latest signs of Brazilian football`s multiple problems were elimination by lowly Paraguay last month in the quarter-finals of the Copa America and the arrest of Jose Maria Marin, a former Brazilian soccer boss, in the FIFA corruption scandal // On Tuesday, Brazilian international defender Daniel Alves said that Bayern Munich trainer Pep Guardiola, a Spaniard, had offered to coach Brazil at the World Cup // The job went to Luiz Felipe Scolari, keeping the tradition of Brazilian coaches // Pep is the best trainer in the world, the best sporting manager I`ve known, Alves said // If you pass up on an EE opportunity like that, it`s because the team doesn`t matter to you //
Rio de Janeiro* EE Brazilian footballing great turned politician Romario says corruption not just poor play was to blame for the country humiliating exit from the World Cup a year ago Wednesday // On the field, the diagnosis was obvious the panic and inability to react by the players, Romario said of the 7*1 collapse in the semi-final to Germany, who went on to win the tournament in Brazil // Romario, a star on Brazil`s 1994 World Cup winning team and now a senator, said however that the players were not the only culprits // Off the field, the problem was far worse* a complex web of corruption involving the CBF *ruling body*, federations clubs, agents, marketing businesses and managers, he wrote on his Facebook page // Together, they destroyed our football because they had one sole aim to get rich // A year after the embarrassing exit from a World Cup that Brazil was not only hosting but was under huge pressure to win, the football mad country`s sporting leaders are debating how to rebuild the team // The coach, Dunga, has warned that Brazil`s road back to dominance of world football will be neither easy nor quick // Romario EE said the fiasco at the World Cup saddened him, not because I wanted to be on the pitch, but because I have had a privileged view, already for several years, of Brazilian football`s deterioration // The latest signs of Brazilian football`s multiple problems were elimination by lowly Paraguay last month in the quarter-finals of the Copa America and the arrest of Jose Maria Marin, a former Brazilian soccer boss, in the FIFA corruption scandal // On Tuesday, Brazilian international defender Daniel Alves said that Bayern Munich trainer Pep Guardiola, a Spaniard, had offered to coach Brazil at the World Cup // The job went to Luiz Felipe Scolari, keeping the tradition of Brazilian coaches // Pep is the best trainer in the world, the best sporting manager I`ve known, Alves said // If you pass up on an EE opportunity like that, it`s because the team doesn`t matter to you //
