Alex Bellos, author of Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, is in Weggis, Switzerland reporting for Joga.com on the Brazilian team. He loves the ex-player, now writer, Tostão.
Here is one of Tostao's brilliant observations about Brazil's preparations:
"This team has a different from any previous Brazilian team – it is ready before the competition has begun. Great teams don’t start like this. They let themselves happen. They arent the perfect article right at the beginning. In this team everything is already in place. Everything seems to easy, too perfect and that has me worried. Big teams need to be able to grow through a competition. I am not against forward planning, but I know that nothing ever happens exactly as planned. Not in football, not in life."
I can see why Bellos is so fond of Tostao.
Remember 2002's finalists, Germany and Brazil? They barely qualified. They had to struggle to get there. Tostao is right.
If he is right, who should we pick to win it all then?
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