Brazilians react to World Cup heartbreak following loss

Brazilian fans react to their team’s 7-1 loss at the end of their 2014 World Cup semifinals against Germany at the Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte.

• Brazil has won five World Cups but no Brazilian has won a Nobel prize.
• In winning the right to host this year’s World Cup (and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s then president, wanted to highlight that the country now has other reasons for confidence beyond football. The tournament would showcase the planet’s seventh-largest economy, a vibrant democracy and remarkable social progress that has seen poverty and income inequality fall steadily in this century.

The 7-1 semi-final thrashing on July 8th 2014 at the hands of Germany in Belo Horizonte’s Mineirão stadium was Brazil’s Armageddon. It was not just the scale of defeat—the worst since 1920. It was also the manner in which Germany’s fast and technically superior players cut through the home defence, as easily as a machete through cassava. To rub salt in a gaping wound, it is Argentina—Brazil’s arch-rivals—who will face Germany in the final on July 13th.

This humiliation has left Brazilians shell-shocked. No other country in the world has a closer identification with football, as Rodrigues’s hyperbole highlights. That may partly be because Brazil has no real Hiroshimas to fear: apart from brief engagement on the Allied side in Italy in 1944-45, it has not fought a war since the 1860s (against Paraguay). Through good fortune and tolerance, it faces neither military threats, nor terrorism, nor ethnic or religious tensions.

 On Tuesday, the pain was raw and immediate. Even Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, felt it necessary to post her sadness on Twitter. “I am immensely sorry for all of us,” she wrote.

Iconic “sad Brazilian fan holding World Cup trophy” later handed that trophy off to a German fan

Brazilian newspapers react to World Cup heartbreak following loss

Confira quais são as maiores goleadas da História das Copas do Mundo

1) 15/06/1982- Hungria 10 – 1 El Salvador

2) 18/06/1974- Iugoslávia 9 x 0 Zaire

17/06/1954- Hungria 9 x 0 Coreia do Sul

3) 01/06/2002- Alemanha 8 x 0 Arábia Saudita

12/06/1938- Suécia 8 x 0 Cuba

4) 21/06/2010- Portugal 7 x 0 Coreia do Norte

19/06/1974- Polonia 7 x 0 Haiti

20/06/1954- Turquia 7 x 0 Coréia do Sul

19/06/1954- Uruguai 7 x 0 Escócia

5) 08/07/2014 - Alemanha 7 – 1 Brasil

03/07/1950- Brasil 7 x 1 Suécia

27/05/1934 - Itália 7 x 1 Estados Unidos

 We Are One (Ole Ola) [The Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Song] (Olodum Mix)