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Brazil (BRA)
- FIFA Trigramme: BRA
- Country: Brazil
- Country (official name): Republica Federativa do
Brasil
- Continent: South America
- Capital: Brasilia
- Major cities: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo
Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza, Nova Iguaçu, Recife, Curitiba, Pôrto Alegre,
Belém, Goiâna, Campinas
- Currency: Real
- Official languages: Portuguese
- Motto: Order and progress (Ordem e Progresso)
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Standings |
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Group F |
MP |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
Pts |
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BRA |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
9 |
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AUS |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
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CRO |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
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JPN |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
1 |
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| Founded |
1914 |
| Affiliated |
1923 |
| WC participations |
17 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974,
1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) |
| WC honours |
5-time FIFA World Cup winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002), 2-time
FIFA World Cup runners-up (1950, 1998), twice finished in 3rd place
(1938, 1978) |
| Continental Titles |
Copa America 7 times (1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1993,
1997, 1999), Pan American Cup 4 times (1963, 1975 with Mexico, 1979,
1987)
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Facts
- Brazil can rightly lay claim to being called the kings of
football. They have lifted the FIFA World Cup on five occasions.
They also hold the attendance record for their defeat to Uruguay in
front of 200,000 spectators on home soil in 1950.
- Brazil won their first FIFA World Cup title eight years later in
Sweden with a team which included a 17-year-old legend-in-the-making
by the name of Pelé.
- Their hardest-earned FIFA World Cup triumph came in 1994, when
the Auriverde won on penalties to end a 24-year drought during which
their teams struggled to come to terms with the physical style of
opposition teams. Despite lifting the FIFA World Cup in 2002, Brazil
will still have to qualify for the 2006 tournament.
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