South American national teams and football hubs Brazil and Mexico are set to face on June 17 at Fortaleza, Brazil in the first round of their group eliminations games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Their are 5 words that you need to bear in mind on why you should never miss this game: Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior.
Seriously, the kid is a stud and the talk in the football world is that he is going to be the best footballer ever in the coming years - and this would be a time where Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are still playing at the peak of their games. This match gives football fans another chance to marvel at the spectacle known as Neymar.
No disrespect to Mexico but this game is all about Brazil. They are heavily favored to win the tournament after winning the Confederations Cup last year and are currently riding a 7 game winning streak so all eyes should be on them. A win would mean one step closer to realizing their dreams of a sixth world cup title while an upset could strike a critical blow to their confidence. Their team and fans cannot afford another nightmare loss like the one they suffered to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup finals and to do that they must beat the underdog Mexico in a convincing fashion.
Mexico, however, holds a surprising recent record against Brazil with 7 victories and two draws in their last 24 meetings against the Brazilians which dates back as far as 1999. Although this record does not seem much, it is far better than what other squads have managed against a team with the most World Cup titles in history. Add their Olympic finals victory at Wembley in 2012 then you have a team with a punchers chance of upsetting the favorite Brazil.
If the host nation Brazil wins - as they are expected to - well, it would simply fortify their campaign on winning yet another world cup title. If they manage to hand Mexico a victory, it could spell disaster. But Brazil has much more talent in every position and their is so much at stake for them in this game that you can easily picture them hammering Mexico than the other way around. However if their is one team that can upset Brazil in the early rounds of the tournament, that would be the Mexican team.
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