Brazil sweep into form as Cunha’s quickfire double sparks World Cup win over Haiti

"Brazil have elite talent. They have the most illustrious trophy-winning manager here, the great Carlo, who stood through most of the first half, always somehow slightly apart from all this, looking like a retired elite international hitman who now lives in a Tuscan castle and spends his evenings reading books printed on vellum and tinkling away on Mozart’s favourite harpsichord.

Afterwards Ancelotti was performatively calm and nonplussed, shrugging out his answers, a man who knows a large part of his job here is to keep everyone calm, like the captain on a jet rocked with turbulence mumbling over the intercom about flight times and perfume discount"

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Brazil sweep into form as Cunha’s quickfire double sparks World Cup win over Haiti | World Cup 2026 | The Guardian

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Vitória indica um caminho, mas não esconde dúvidas sobre a seleção, analisam colunistas do GLOBO

"Mais importante do que o placar, porém, foi o surgimento de um primeiro esboço do time que Carlo Ancelotti pode tentar consolidar na competição. A presença de Matheus Cunha, a liberdade maior para Lucas Paquetá e Bruno Guimarães e o protagonismo novamente assumido por Vini Jr. melhoraram o funcionamento ofensivo. Ainda assim, os colunistas do GLOBO consideraram cedo para transformar a atuação em sinal definitivo de evolução."

Vitória indica um caminho, mas não esconde dúvidas sobre a seleção, analisam colunistas do GLOBO

‘Crony Capitalism on Steroids’: 3 Writers on the World Cup’s First Week

 

"The World Cup has already seen America’s thumping victory in its opener, a thriller involving Iran and a hat trick from Lionel Messi. In a written online conversation, the Times Opinion editors John Guida and Tim Schneider hosted Vanessa Barbara, the editor of the literary website A Hortaliça; Sean Jacobs, the author of the newsletter Eleven Named People; and Nate Silver, who writes the newsletter Silver Bulletin, to discuss the glorious (and not-so-glorious) soccer on display, the politics shaping the tournament and, of course, who’s going to win it all."

By Vanessa Barbara, Sean Jacobs, Nate SilverJohn Guida and Tim Schneider

Why Brazil vs Haiti was the perfect World Cup match to mark Juneteenth

 

"In the suburbs of Lisbon and Paris. In Oakland and Atlanta and Washington D.C., and in all of those places and more, we saw our complexions, hair textures, swagger, and broad noses reflected back at us as Haitian and Brazilian players sauced the ball, and even danced, across the pitch. And we rejoiced in what feels like divine order that these two teams, with their rich histories, should meet each other on Juneteenth."

read article By Tamerra Griffin

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