Neto and Edmundo: "Felipão only did commercials"
Commentators Neto and Edmundo, from Band, hit the nail on the head; according to them, the main person responsible for the semifinal defeat was coach Luiz Felipe Scolari; "he only worried about doing his 600 commercials and not about training his team," said Edmundo; "Felipão made bad call-ups, bad lineup choices and did everything wrong in this World Cup," said Neto; before the World Cup, he only earned less than Neymar in commercials for companies like Vivo, Extra, Peugeot and Ambev; a bank account overflowing with money, but, on the field, a disgrace; Paulo Vinicius Coelho, PVC, from ESPN, recalled that it was the biggest defeat of the national team in 100 years.
247 - The two main commentators for Band during the World Cup, former players Neto and Edmundo, hit the nail on the head. "This embarrassment has someone responsible, and his name is Felipão," said Neto. "Felipão was only concerned with doing commercials before the World Cup, and not with training his team."
In fact, before the World Cup, Felipão earned less only than the player Neymar. He did commercials for companies such as Gillette, Sadia, Vivo, Ambev, Peugeot, and Walmart. In March of this year, three months before the World Cup, he appeared in 318 commercial spots on broadcast television.
"Felipão is the figure of the moment in Brazil: he won the Confederations Cup and restored credibility to our national team. With the World Cup approaching, he will have an even greater presence and impact on the national scene, and that is exactly the dimension we want," said Frederico Battaglia, Marketing Director of Peugeot Brazil, at the time.
Felipão filled his bank account, but he was responsible for Brazil's biggest humiliation in World Cup history, with a 7-1 defeat to Germany in the semi-final in Belo Horizonte, complete with chants of "olé" from the crowd for the Germans. "It could have been 10-0 if Germany had pressed a little harder," said Edmundo. "Felipão relegated Palmeiras to the second division and won the Brazilian national team as a reward."
Neto harshly criticized Felipão. "He made poor call-ups and picked an even worse team." Indeed, for a team that went to the World Cup with Fred and had Jô on the bench, it was unlikely to work.
At the end of the game, Felipão gathered the team and said: "The responsibility is mine." Neto agreed. "The blame lies solely with him, and Brazil needs to rethink how it chooses its coaches."
On ESPN, commentator Paulo Vinícius Coelho, known as PVC, recalled that it was "the biggest defeat for the Brazilian national team in 100 years."