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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Brazil World Cup 98 France





The Brazil finished as runner-up in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. After a very respectable campaign, the team lost to hosts France 3-0 in a problematic final game. Brazilian marking at defensive set pieces was poor, and Zinedine Zidane was able to score two headed goals from France's corner kicks. Also, Brazilian star Ronaldo suffered a nervous breakdown or an epileptic seizure a few hours before the match. Many criticized the decision to reinstate Ronaldo into the starting lineup as he put in a poor performance. The coach of the team at the time was Mário Zagallo, who won the World Cup as a player in 1958 and 1962, as the coach in 1970 and as assistant coach in 1994.

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The blue 1998 FIFA World Cup kits, however made no appearance at the tournament. The Samba squad wore the yellow shirts in all the matches.
Brazil 98 France FIFA World Cup squads:1 GK Claudio TAFFAREL, 2 DF Marcos de Moraes CAFU, 3 DF ALDAIR Santos, 4 DF Raimundo JUNIOR BAIANO, 5 MD CESAR SAMPAIO Campos, 6 DF ROBERTO CARLOS da Silva, 7 FW GIOVANNI de Oliveira, 8 MD Carlos Verri DUNGA, 9 FW RONALDO Nazario de Lima, 10 MD RIVALDO Barbosa Ferreira, 11 MD EMERSON da Rosa, 12 GK CARLOS GERMANO, 13 DF Jose ZE CARLOS, 14 DF Marcelo GONCALVES Lopes, 15 DF ANDRE CRUZ, 16 DF ZE ROBERTO da Silva, 17 MD DORIVA Guidoni, 18 MD LEONARDO de Araujo, 19 FW DENILSON de Oliveira, 20 FW Jose Oliveira BEBETO, 21 FW EDMUNDO de Souza Neto, GK Nelson DIDA, Coach: Mario Zagallo

The kits has the no.11 on the shirt and short indicating it was the kit of ROMARIO, however it not list on the Brazilian squads 1998 France FIFA World Cup. Sorry friends.

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