Brazil's latest Olympic football silver lacks a sliver of consolation | Jamie Jackson

three silver medals and two bronze medals are a paltry return for the winners of the five times World Cup newest whose hopes were dashed by Mexico and an inability to take their chances

Brazil have never won the Olympic title was so misleading as to the existence of a collection of brilliant individual gold medals missing Roger Federer. Mexico at Wembley on Saturday - no soccer games in Brazil medals two silver medals and two bronze (apart from his World Cup five years) - were aligned as extras in the

Seleção

's launch party as Olympic champions.

place called Santos Laguna striker Oribe Peralta scored twice what they were a virtually as Mexico, Brazil and a starting lineup with Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Neymar, Rafael da Silva and Oscar become in the past to continue this story sorry pests masterful football nation.

The balance was the opportunity to reverse the unwanted statistic as host of upcoming games to establish a defense of the title he could finish ahead of 85.0000 Maracanã football souls with considered prima facie evidence of the spiritual home of the sport.

Before this match, the coach, Mario Menezes, said: "We all know we have to win the gold medal in Brazil must win every tournament you play, you have to win every game you play, even. whether it is a friendly match. And this time even more because it is something that the nation has never won before. "

Neymar, the Santos forward, said: "We came here for the gold medal and we are far from reaching a game just to do our work in the end.".

The mission seemed to happen. Brazil retained possession of all but killed finishing deficit. When Hulk was introduced - after the half-hour, his teammate Alex Sandro Porto - with his team trailing 1-0, darkening resistance to at least one dimension added directly absent from his natural inclination to spread the ball wide and made like butterflies .

won silver at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics and the bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996 and Beijing 2008 were insignificant change. A line that has disgustingly rich Garrincha, Pele, Rivelino, Tostao, Zico, Romario - who played in Seoul - Ronaldo, Rivaldo (Atlanta), Lúcio (Sydney 2000) and Alexandre Pato (2008, London 2012) really should the have already done what Argentina's Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano made in Athens in 2004, and win at least one gold medal.

Menezes was the Brazilian tradition of leading the main coach Olympic XI. But he joined Mario Zagallo (Atlanta 1996), Vanderlei Luxembourg (Sydney 2000) and Dunga (Beijing 2008) failure, a series that includes failure to qualify for the Athens Games in 2004.

• With samba drums beating butter and sun on the players, it was a memorable occasion taste tempting offer football atmosphere, which will be present at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro four years and during World Cup 2014. It was Rio or São Paulo transplanted to North London for a day, but with Mexico write their own scenario: the strike of 28 seconds by the Peralta Menezes impressive team millions of viewers always come home and offers an omen first Brazilian dream soured.

The tire came 15 minutes from time. Throughout the afternoon, Brazil were the guardians of the ball missing a key near the goal murderer Jose Corona. When they were presented for the second time since the break, Marco Fabián Peralta suddenly encountered a strong, whose performance and ahead of the curve on arrival were as impressive as his starter.

Brazil had enough chances to win three or four gold medals and none of the things necessary to Corona goal.

principle Neymar floated in a free kick from the right that Thiago Silva, the captain went to him. Oscar and Chelsea had a corner that did not work. The exceptional step in this sequence was Marcelo, Real Madrid left-back, throw a ball on the side which is Leandro Damião, whose career buccaneers deserved better.

Mexico beat Brazil 2-0 in their last meeting - a warm up for the tournament -. Although their ranks have been weakened by Giovanni Dos Santos Tottenham Hotspur is out with a hamstring injury
A Brazilian suffered an injury as well, but it was during the game and was not a failure: Sandro came and went into the Hulk, whose first contribution was a blow 30 yards that stung the fingers of Corona as half-time approached.

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