For Bellicose Brazil, Payback Carries Heavy Price: Loss of Neymar

 

NY Times afirma o mesmo que postei ontem aqui: a Seleção Brasileira (ou seus comandantes) tem parcela de culpa no incidente com Neymar.
(Assim como o juiz...)

"Brazil’s Óscar ran right into Rodríguez’s back as if to make clear to him that no space on the Fortaleza field would be a safe space. Rodríguez’s teammates were understandably upset, but there was no retaliation — the feeling of violence in the game, especially early on, came almost exclusively from Brazil.

Two minutes after Óscar’s foul, Marcelo blasted the Colombian midfielder Juan Cuadrado. Three minutes after that, Fernandinho, a midfielder who often plays with an edge, slammed into Rodríguez again.
Fernandinho was called for four fouls in just the first half of the game, three of them significant hacks at Rodríguez. But Velasco Carballo gave him no penalty.

In all, Brazil committed nine of the first 11 fouls in the second half, hacking and pounding on the Colombians despite already holding a 1-0 lead. It was not hard to predict that at some point, Brazil’s top star, Neymar, would become a target."

read article by Sam Borden: 

For Bellicose Brazil, Payback Carries Heavy Price: Loss of Neymar - NYTimes.com