Early Nineties and late Naughties the Brazilian Team was full of players who are of top class qualitiy. Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldino, Cafu, Robino, Roberto Carlos, Kaka. However, this level of player production seems to have declined and now there appear to be good players but few World Class. Whilst in Brazil last year I spent time at Santos Football Club and Corinthians Paulista, two of the many powerhouses, within Brazilian league. I managed to look and study a wide variety of age groups from top players down to the juniors as well as talking with top coaches and compiled the list of issues that are now facing Brazil and most of this is due to her constantly improving economy. Players back in the day would only play football, a limited time at school but from 1 til it got dark kids would play football and only football in the streets, until it got dark or their parents called them in. Times have changed, a booming economy has opened the streets to cars and car ownership and this h...
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