Brazilians are having a strenuous time to fathom precisely how everything went drastically wrong versus Germany in the World Cup Semi-Finals.
The sad faces of
Brazil’s Football fans:
“We are still trying to understand what happened,” Daniel Alves right
back said. “I guess it is football. In 6
minutes you can be eliminated and that’s what happened to us.”
The Germany national team scored its first Five goals by the 29th minute
as defence of Brazil self-destructed, shocking the crowd at the Mineirao and
everyone else watching on television.
“It was a hard day,” Brazil defensive Luiz Gustavo said. “We started
well, with everybody doing what they were supposed to be doing, but then all of
a sudden we conceded the goals.”
Tuesday’s result equaled the margin of its previous worst defeat – a 6-0
loss to Uruguay in the South American championship in 1920. It was the worst
World Cup loss ever in numbers, and probably nearly as heartbreaking as the
home defeat in the 1950 tournament, the so-called Maracanazo.
“It’s difficult to explain,” Oscar said. “I don’t know what to say. All
we can do is apologize. Nobody expected this.”
Left back Marcelo added: “We were in shock about what happened. We were
going through our worst day and they (the Germans) were going through their
best day.”
Although no one was making excuses, Brazil played without star striker
Neymar because of an injury and captain Thiago Silva because of a suspension.
Silva said it was “almost impossible to explain what happened. It wasn't the Brazilian national team that we are used to seeing.”
Bernard, who took Neymar’s spot in the starting lineup, said “nothing
went our away. It was atypical.”
Brazil now has to play the third-place match on Saturday in Brasilia
against either Argentina or the Netherlands.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said she was “very, very sad” after
the loss. Pele said it showed that “football is a box of surprises.”
“Nobody in this world expected this result,” Pele posted on Twitter,
already looking forward to the 2018 tournament. “We’ll get the sixth title in
Russia. Congratulations to Germany.”
But many of the Brazilian players won’t be back in Russia to try to rebound
from the historic home defeat. Only seven players will be 30 years or younger
in 2018 – Marcelo, Luiz Gustavo, Paulinho, Willian, Neymar, Oscar and Bernard.
“We know this will be remembered for a long time,” veteran defender
Maicon said.
Striker Fred, who struggled the entire tournament and was loudly jeered
when he was replaced in the second half on Tuesday, said “our lives will be
marked by this.”
In Rio de Janeiro officers descended on Copacabana beach amid reports of gunfire. Authorities were called to a densely-populated area of Sao Paulo after football supporters reportedly set a bus alight (bottom right), leaving it as little more than a burnt-out shell.
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