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Around 11 pm in Sochi, Neymar leaves the Brazilian national team to meet his "parças". He and the other players from Brazil can come back until 3am. About an hour later, the shirt 10 returns with friends, who also enter the hotel. The lobby of the luxurious resort is filled with family members of the athletes who dined with them. The following night, after a 2-0 win against Mexico, almost all remained at the official address of the delegation in the coastal town with relatives and friends, despite the freedom to leave after dinner and come back at dawn
half at 3 pm on the 6th;
– Osorio loses the line and takes the "elegance lesson" of Tite
The unusual scenario of a "headquarters" of Brazil in the World Cup shows how the daily life of the Team in the Russian station reacted to the eternal dilemma of national football on the opening or closing of the concentrations. When the selection goes wrong, the chosen option, whatever it is, ends up being designated as one of the culprits. It was like that in 2006, with great preparation at Weggis in Switzerland.
In the case of Sochi, from where the Brazilian team definitely leaves on Thursday (5) to face Belgium the next day in Kazan, the technical committee badesses that the open and family environment of the athletes was positive for the team.
The transformation of Neymar's behavior, inside and outside the four lines, is an example of a positive effect of family proximity. First, the abuser preferred that his relatives do not go to the luxury hotel because he and his staff understood that the moment was the one of privacy for distribution. By comparison, most other families in Sochi opted from the outset to concentrate almost daily.
With the family at a distance, Neymar did not succeed in a draw with Switzerland for his World Cup debut.
A day after the first game, his father changed his plan and stayed in the national team station.
One day after the first game, his father changed his plan and stayed in the selection station. He was the first parent of the player to reserve the room in the place (the family of Douglas Costa would do the same thing later). In the win over Costa Rica, the 10th shirt was still grumpy, but soon saw other parents arrived at the hotel. His mother, Nadine, his sister, Rafaela, and their son, David Lucca, arrived to stay. The girlfriend Bruna Marquezine visited. In 2014, she and the player had to go out to Granja Comary, Teresópolis, after a training session, exposed to the hardened lenses of photographers and cameramen. This time, there was more freedom for the couple and little space for flashes.
The closeness to the parents meant that the shirt 10 was detached. He went around the station and was attentive to the fans. Without ceremony, she crossed the hall to enter the guests' wing to see the parents.
On one of these occasions, Neymar directed a scene that shows one of the taboos overthrown in Sochi: the closeness between journalists and the players of the selection. In the past 20 years, detachment has been the rule and the relationship is almost always tense.
In the elevator, shirt 10 was approached by a reporter who tried to argue with astro. The player responds and gives a rope, without denouncing the abyss that usually marks the relationship between the two clbades. In 2010, at the South African Cup, on the command of Dunga, the team kept away from the press and golf club badociates where the concentration was. A wall protected the quarters of the athletes. In one of the few authorizations, a group of players contradicted the coach for giving an interview. The commander's reaction was to leave the athletes even more locked up, turning their own press conferences into "battles".
In 2018, nothing resembles this climate of indisposition with the press and loneliness of the team. The family atmosphere with parents in the lobby, restaurant, bar, pool and beach, in a way, involves journalists staying at the hotel. A journalist talks to Fagner and his son about the boy's abilities, while others play with David Lucca. The technical committee was not expecting journalists, but coexistence has broken down the barriers and helped to ease the climate between the different sides of the counter.
On the other hand, the commission was also able to prevent the freedom from becoming an abuse. by the casting, as in 2006. In the off games, the players were allowed to stay until the next morning, but even though many have come back before. A good part of these arrivals was attested by the report of UOL Esporte hosted in the same hotel of the selection.
The players pbaded the message that they decided to take advantage of the vote of confidence given by Titus without stepping on the ball to keep the system open, rare in the culture of Brazilian football. At a table in the hotel bar, Geromel's parents drinking beer, the defender's water bottle indicates, among several examples, the athletes' relationship with the given freedom.
The coach also dealt naturally with another theme In Brazilian football, the presence of entrepreneurs in the concentration. Tite's own agent, Gilmar Veloz, made a quick visit to the station in Sochi to get tickets. Neymar's father, welcomed into the house of the selection, is another businessman present. Before the game of the last 16 minutes with Mexico, at least two middlemen appeared at the hotel's team. Apparently without contact with the players, they were in concentration at Samara Andre Cury, representative of Barcelona in Brazil who was working in the signatures of Paulinho, Neymar and Philippe Coutinho, and Fábio Mello, Fred's agent.
At the beginning of Brazil's stay in Sochi, however, there were signs that the strategy put in place by the technical commission was in danger. The hotel left the delegation more exposed than expected. Just on the first day, there was an evening barbecue offered to the guests with a musical show right next to the windows of the athletes' rooms. At least one more performance is produced.
At the beginning of the selection process for Sochi, women walking in the locker room attracted attention. The practice is relatively common at the station, but it would have been unimaginable, for example, in 1974, when the national team faced one of its biggest recluses of the Black Forest in Germany. At the time, Brazil finished fourth in the World Cup. To this day, several members of this delegation are resentful of the long period of isolation.
At first, there were families strangely close to the selection. Some even criticized others who were more diligent in concentration and tried to appear less in the hotel. Rusgas arrived in the relationship between the parents.
Everything was very new for the family, the players, the technical commission and the journalists. Nobody was used to this atmosphere in the Brazilian national team, unlike what often happens with European Cups. In 2010, on the eve of the finals in South Africa, for example, Dutch players received their loved ones in concentration. One day before the most important game of all, they could be seen in restaurants frequented by tourists with their wives. In Brazil, in 2014, Felipão had the habit of opening the concentration for families on the eve of the matches, but the contact was much less intense than in 2018.
For the novelty, Whatever happens in Brazil in Russia, this selection leaves as a legacy a new look at the pattern of concentration adopted by most clubs in the country and by the Brazilian team in almost every World Cup.
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