February 18 – In a lift to the nation’s youth soccer, Brazil have retained the South American U-20 Championship after Argentina did not get any reward from the final matchday of the match.
They wanted a sizeable victory towards Paraguay to high the standings, however as a substitute they misplaced 3-2. Because of this, Brazil, who defeated Chile 3-0, completed first on 13 factors, three greater than Argentina.
Brazil’s title marked a serious turnaround, because the defending champions had made a dreadful begin, crashing 6-0 to Argentina of their opening match.
Nevertheless, supervisor Ramon Menezes then rang the adjustments to provide his aspect extra of a defensive and pragmatic outlook, and acquired the marketing campaign again on monitor with 1-0 victories towards Colombia and Uruguay.
Two years in the past, Menezes led Brazil to the continental U-20 title, however his workforce flopped on the World Cup, exiting within the quarter-finals. He then did not qualify Brazil’s U-23 workforce for the Olympic Video games in Paris and was nearly on the best way out, however Brazil’s issues at senior degree meant the Brazilian FA (CBF) had extra urgent issues.
With golf equipment not releasing their greatest gamers, Brazil’s squad was restricted, however the South People might want to enhance to sort out larger challenges this yr.
Within the autumn, the Brazilians might be South America’s high representatives on the U-20 World Cup in Chile, having received the competitors on 5 events, the final of which got here in 2011 in Colombia.
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