Brazilians eye punish from Swiss reunion

By Giancarlo Giampietro with Brazil

Brazil flog off their Russia 2018 debate opposite Switzerland on Sunday, 17 June. For 4 of Tite’s first-choice players, a compare will move behind memories of a assembly between a dual nations scarcely 9 years ago, in a FIFA U-17 World Cup group-phase match.

Goalkeeper Alisson, midfielders  Casemiro and Philippe Coutinho, and brazen Neymar were all on a representation in Abuja, Nigeria on 30 Oct 2009, when A Seleção indispensable a outcome to allege to a knockout proviso of a competition.

As it incited out, however, a Swiss won 1-0 to tip a organisation and send a Brazilians home early, with Mexico holding second place and Japan propping adult a group. The European side afterwards went on to hit out dual some-more giants in a figure of Germany and Italy, before violence a hosts in a final to land a ancestral universe title.

“It’s one of life’s small ironies, isn’t it?” Alisson told FIFA.com. “That wasn’t a really happy time for us given we were knocked out. They had a really clever side.”

With many years carrying upheld given then, it would be an deceit to report Sunday’s diversion in Rostov as a ‘rematch’. It will, all a same, be engaging to see how a Brazilian party transport opposite midfielder Granit Xhaka, a versatile Ricardo Rodriguez, and striker Haris Seferovic, who all featured in that match, with Seferovic finale a contest as the tip scorer.​

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