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The Question
Why Brazilians soccer players sign contracts with European soccer teams such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, A.C. Milan and Chelsea? And why they play way better there than on FIFA World Cup when they play for Brazil?

The Answer
Let's compare the soccer clubs in Brazil and in Europe first. There is many differences between the Brazilian and the European culture on the sport, on the professionalism, and in the way that each one treats their players. Those differences make the Brazilians players dream about being on European soccer teams.

Even they have the “Best player” title the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) and great Brazilians teams can't keep their players playing on Brazil. Almost all the Brazilians players are playing for European teams right now.

“The European soccer is way more organized [then Brazilian], and we have the opportunity to learn and get more experience in foreign countries, and mostly, they pay more.” Said Kaka, a famous Brazilian soccer player who plays for the Italian club A.C. Milan, on an interview. “the club directors and the club president in Brazil usually don't have any compromise for the club directly, so they just care about their own interests. Here in Italy the presidents usually own the club, in other words they are more honest, because they are dealing with their own money. Here they just choose reliable people to hire in important jobs. They are more professional then the Brazilians teams, once they care about about the team in all of the aspects.”

Some Brazilian soccer fans say that those players who go to foreign countries to play soccer are traitors and that they are selling themselves just because they are leaving their country, but if you think about, everybody would do the same think, I bet that if you worked in Burger king and McDonald's offered to you a better salary and conditions you would work there, right? That is what happen with the players in Brazil, they just get a better job offer.

Now we are going to look at the way that Brazil is playing. On their last two games for FIFA World Cup tryouts, Brazil didn't score a single goal and the games ended in a tie letting Brazil on second place now. There are four berths, for the South American Countries, to the FIFA World Cup and Brazil is only behind of Paraguay, followed in third place for Argentina, and the last one is Chile. On their last game against Colombia, that over 0x0, Robinho said: “Lacked quality, we couldn't create [new moves] and the game ended tied. I hope play better on the game against Chelsea (English Cup)”.

No doubt, the reason for the way that Brazil is playing now is their “brand” new coach, Dunga never was a coach before he started to train the Brazilians players, he was just an old soccer player who played on a FIFA World Cup for Brazil, but just that, he has no experience in managing a team. The only players that he choose is the media famous players, those who era on TV all the time, and magazines praises, as he said in a interview: “The best players of the Brasileirao (the major Brazilian national cup) are probably not being convened for the FIFA World Cup, and I will call them just when they go to Europe.”

That means the players just play for Brazil when they shine on an European club, they got the “best of the world” title over their heads, making difficult to make a great teamwork as they do on their club. The last games that I saw they had a hard time to pass through the Mexican defense, because there was just 2 people going to attack and they almost never passed the ball for each other, as on the 2006 FIFA World Cup, they couldn't make any pass right, and there was always 2 or 3 players on the attack against 5 or 6 player for other team protecting the goal, and some players as Robinho never passed a ball to other player, he always tried to make the goal by himself and was very hard to him make a goal.

By Eduardo Watzko 11-29-08