Brazil national football team is the most successful national football team in the history of the FIFA World Cup, with five championships as member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) since 1923 and also a member of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) since 1916. The team represents the country Brazil in international men’s football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), a controlled governing body of Brazil.In FIFA Confederation Cup, they are the most successful team that bears International shirts with three titles.Brazil has won eight Copa America titles at continental level.
As current holders of the FIFA Confederations Cup after winning the 2005 and the 2009 edition of the tournament, Brazil is currently ranked fifth by FIFA and is considered as the strongest football nation in the world, and has also been marked as one of the most competitive teams of each decade since the 1960s. Brazil is the only national football team to have played in every World Cup finals.
The only team to have won the championship in four different continents; once in Europe (1958 Sweden), once in South America (1962 Chile), twice in North America (1970 Mexico and 1994 USA) and once in Asia (2002 S. Korea-Japan) is Brazil.Os ingleses o inventaram, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram isa common quip about footbal which means The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it.
Various nicknames of the Brazilian national team is known in different parts of the world.Selecao, which literally means the selection is the most common one used to refer them, in Brazil especially.
The team’s first team Football shirt colours were white with blue collars, but after their defeat in the 1950 World Cup, the colours were criticised for lacking patriotism. With permission from the Brazilian Sports Confederation, the newspaper Correio da Manhã held a competition to design a kit incorporating the four colours of the Brazilian flag.The winning design was a yellow jersey with green trim and blue shorts with white trim drawn by Aldyr Garcia Schlee, a nineteen year old from Pelotas.In March 1954 in a match against Chile, the new Brazil football shirts were first used .
In any parts of the world, Brazil national football team is amazingly famous. By mentioning the term “football”, Brazil national football team will be the first to be remembered as team with full spirit in winning.
Phil Smith writes for the footie shirt search engine Football Shirt Search and collects international football shirts.
