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...lost 1-0 to Brazil Thursday night in Maldonado, but the team played well enough to put a scare into the Brazilians, who had never lost to the North Americans and in fact had not given up a goal to them in 65 years. As Carlos Alberto Parreira, who coached Brazil to its World Cup victory last year, says, "The U.S. is not the dead chicken that everyone used to think...
...Please, We're Brazilian: Brazilians have spent the past several weeks arguing about whether their team should have sex while in America (the debate isn't about safety; it's about on-field performance). When soccer legend Pele weighed in on the pro-sex side, coach Carlos Parreira, who had said spouses could not accompany the team, changed his mind: "We are not going to lose the Cup because...
Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...