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08-05-2016, 04:50 AM
Brazil's quest for soccer redemption off to awful start at Rio Olympics
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If qualifying for the 2018 World Cup (http://mashable.com/2014/06/17/world-cup-manaus-stadium/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) ended Thursday, Brazil would **t be traveling to Russia for soccer's biggest event.*
Yes, you read that correctly. Brazil, the most iconic footballing nation of them all, is currently on the outside looking in at 2018 World Cup qualification. That, of course follows Brazil's 7-1 shellacking (http://mashable.com/2014/07/09/argentina-world-cup-final-brazil-**ooo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) by Germany on home soil in the 2014 World Cup semifinals, a humiliation that still haunts the national psyche.*
SEE ALSO: Olympics-eve report accuses USA Gymnastics of failing to protect kids from ***ual abuse (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-abuse-report/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Situating soccer as a pillar of the Brazilian identity is by **w common e**ugh to border on banal — but even the briefest visit to Brazil proves the cliché true.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/brazil-soccer-olympics-south-africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Yes, you read that correctly. Brazil, the most iconic footballing nation of them all, is currently on the outside looking in at 2018 World Cup qualification. That, of course follows Brazil's 7-1 shellacking (http://mashable.com/2014/07/09/argentina-world-cup-final-brazil-**ooo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) by Germany on home soil in the 2014 World Cup semifinals, a humiliation that still haunts the national psyche.*
SEE ALSO: Olympics-eve report accuses USA Gymnastics of failing to protect kids from ***ual abuse (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/usa-gymnastics-abuse-report/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Situating soccer as a pillar of the Brazilian identity is by **w common e**ugh to border on banal — but even the briefest visit to Brazil proves the cliché true.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/brazil-soccer-olympics-south-africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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