Topic
Continuing the theme from the first debate on
Brazilian Soccer, let’s analyze another of Brazil’s most criticized
personalities, Sebastiano Lazaroni.
His stewardship of the Brazil national Team
(1989/90) remains a sore topic for most Brazilian fans and observers, so let’s
take a in closer look.
Was he justified to adopt European tactics? Did that
set the stage perhaps for victory in 1994? Which player selections worked, which didn’t?
What is his legacy?
Note: In one of my ‘Soccer Memories’ I discuss this
http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2012/06/soccer-memories-part-seven.html |
Photo
From: Soccer International, August 1990
(Sebastiano Lazaroni) |
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Photo
From: Foot Magazine, October 1989, Issue 96
(Romario, July 30, 1989, World Cup Qualifier, Venezuela 0-Brazil 4) |
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Photo
From: Onze-Mondial, December 1989
(Brazil squad, October 14, 1989, Italy 0-Brazil
1, Top, left to right: Iomar do Nascimento ‘Mazinho’, Cláudio André Mergen ‘Taffarel’,
Jorge de Amorim Campos ‘Jorginho’, Mauro Geraldo Galvão, ‘Aldair’ Nascimento dos Santos, Ricardo Rogério de Brito ‘Alemão’, Bottom, left to right: Luís Antônio Corrêa da Costa ‘Müller’,
Antônio de Oliveira Filho ‘Careca’ , Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri ‘Dunga’, Paulo
‘Silas’ do
Prado Pereira, Ricardo Roberto Barreto da Rocha) |
