Brazil's coach gropes for missing links

"I’m very sad, and so are the team. Getting knocked out was a situation that we hadn’t prepared for. We started the game well, and our passing was sharp. But our attackers always found it difficult, because France, just like the other teams that we have played, got all of their men behind the ball.

"But we tried and we had a few chances," that was how Brazilian coach, Carlos Alberto Parriera started his lamentation on his team's loss to Les Bleu of France in the 2006 Mundial last week-end.

According to fifaworldcup.com coach Carlos Perriera confessed that, the "French team played with a lot of spirit. (Zinedine) Zidane is a player that we know well, one of the great players of the last decade. But our defence marked tightly, so much so that their goal came from a set-piece.

"Technically, we have a very good team, very experienced, but when you don’t win the title, it’s because there has been something missing," the South Americans' shots caller told fifa worldcup.com " We had some problems, and we needed a little more preparation, probably in terms of fitness and getting the team to play as a unit. I’m not worried about whether or not I’m going to carry on as coach of the Seleção," Carlos concluded.

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Brazil's coach gropes for missing links

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