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(The five stars symbolize the five World Cups Brazil has conquered.
The most recent jerseys carry the following words, stamped on a small logo, at
the bottom left side: "Nascido para jogar futebol" = "Born to play soccer⁄football")
 
Country & football (soccer) related information
 
  Team – Founded: 1914 • Affiliated: 1923
Confederation: CONMEBOL - South America
5 times World Cup Winner; twice, runner-up.
 
Squad's local nickname: Seleção Canarinho, or less commonly, Os Canarinhos
(Little Canary Squad, or The Little Canaries, an allusion
to the shirt color, and a diminutive the value of which is emotional,
rather meaning 'dear' than 'small')
Other nicknames: Seleção Verde-Amarelo (Green-Yellow Squad) or, less
commonly, Seleção Auri-Verde (Gold-Green Squad),
both in reference to the uniform & Flag colors.
Pls. note: Seleção, by itself, is the team's name, so to speak,
not a nickname!
Seleção simply means "selection;" but it is the term Brazilians use
in reference to their National Teams, whatever the sport. (See note
added to the Argentinean & Portuguese Squads' nicknames)
 
In 2006, Brazil come to the World Cup as 
In addition,
 
 
The Squad  (by jersey number) The Squad  (by field position)
Dida
Cafu
Lúcio
Juan
Emerson []
Roberto Carlos
Adriano °°
Kaká °°
Ronaldo °°
Ronaldinho Gaúcho
Zé Roberto °°
Rogério Ceni
Cicinho
Luisão
Cris
Gilberto °°
Gilberto Silva
Edmílson Mineiro
Juninho Pernambucano °°
Ricardinho
Fred °°
Júlio Cesar
Robinho

Nélson de Jesus Silva, 'Dida' (AC Milan, Italy)
Júlio César  Soares Espíndola (Internazionale Milan, Italy)
Rogério Mücke Ceni (São Paulo)

Marcos Evangelista de Moraes, 'Cafu' (AC Milan, Italy)
Cícero João de Cezare, 'Cicinho' (Real Madrid, Spain)
Lucimar da Silva Ferreira, 'Lúcio' (Bayern Munich, Germany)
Juan Silveira dos Santos (Bayer Leverkusen, Germany)
Cristiano Marques Gomes, 'Cris' (Olympique Lyon, France)
Ânderson Luís da Silva, 'Luisão' (Benfica, Portugal)
Gilberto da Silva Mello (Hertha Berlin, Germany)
Roberto Carlos da Silva (Real Madrid, Spain)

Gilberto Aparecido da Silva, 'Gilberto Silva' (Arsenal, England)
Émerson  Ferreira da Costa (Juventus, Italy)
José (Zé) Roberto da Silva Júnior (Bayern Munich, Germany)
Edmílson José Gomes Moraes (Barcelona, Spain)
Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Junior, 'Juninho Pernambucano' (Olympique Lyon, France)
Ricardo Luiz Pozzi Rodrigues, 'Ricardinho' (Corinthians)
Ricardo Izecson Santos Leite, 'Kaká' (AC Milan, Italy)
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, 'Ronaldinho Gaúcho' (Barcelona, Spain)
Carlos Luciano da Silva, 'Mineiro' (São Paulo)

Ronaldo Luiz Nazário de Lima (Real Madrid, Spain)
Adriano Leite Ribeiro (Internazionale Milan, Italy)
Robson de Souza, 'Robinho' (Real Madrid, Spain)
Frederico Chaves Guedes, 'Fred' (Olympique Lyon, France)
(Italian newspaper) carries photos of each squad member – to see.
(, on a Brazilian site)
 
Coach⁄Manager:  Carlos Alberto Parreira (A true veteran in World Cups – since 1970! )
(see list of 2005 Top Coaches)
 
°° Goal scored in Germany-2006 (if bracketed, {}='own goal')
 
Ronaldo's goal against Ghana made him the top World Cup scorer, ever,
beating German Gerd Müller's record, which Ronaldo had equalled
after his two goals against Japan.
See All Time Greatest Scorers-2006
More World Cup scoring ststistics in this eBook:   Top Scorers per World Cup,
Top World Cup Scorers, & Top World Cup Brazilian Scorers.
 
also took part in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cups.
[] Émerson was actually Brazil's captain, in the Champion 2002 squad.
But due to a shoulder dislocation, the day before Brazil's first match, he was substituted
by Ricardinho, who remained in the Brazilian squad also for 2006 (jersey # 20, above).
Émerson's sudden loss meant, in addition, that the Brazilian side had been left with no captain.
Cafu (jersey # 2, above) was the man then chosen to replace Émerson in the post,
a function which he likewise fulfills in Brasil's 2006 World Cup squad.
 
Midfield player Edmílson was replaced by Mineiro, São Paulo's
goal scorer against Liverpool (FIFA Club's Championship's final match–clip available),
on the morning of May 31, due to a right knee injury carried over from
Barcelona's Champions League's match against A.C.Milan.
— See curious facts regarding Mineiro's & other Brazilian squad players' names+nicknames 

Edmílson's replacement means that the Brazilian Squad now includes three players
who are Brazilian club-based (instead of two, as previously–see 2006 WC Players' Sources):
São Paulo players Rogério Ceni and Mineiro, and Corinthians player Ricardinho.
 
There has somehow been some mix-up (Eurosport TV, especially, though also unclear at UEFA site, & likely elsewhere) that Edmílson's right knee injury would have resulted from a couple of tougher ball disputes between him and Adriano, in the heat of a practice involving Brazil's main team players against the reserve team-players (Edmílson had then been hit on his left leg, by Adriano). Whether resulting from misinterpretation, or rumor, the news is inaccurate; Edmílson sustained this right knee injury while still playing at his club, Barcelona, as above indicated. 
This is a knee that had already sidelined him for about half a year, and which he believed healed, Emílson, himself explained in an interview: He felt some discomfort on the knee during the Champions League final matches but, in the heat of the competition, he did not give it much attention. As he joined the Brazilian squad, and restarted training, the knee began bothering again, now and then.
Edmílson's replacement by Mineiro took place following a practice match that the Brazil side played in Luzern (Lucerne, Switzerland). Unexpected swelling and pain, and further examination on that same knee that Edmílson had injured while playing for Barcelona determined him unlikely to be fit before the end of the World Cup. On June 1, Edmílson actually underwent successful surgery, and he is expected to restart playing in approximately a month's time, he announced in the same interview. 
Neither Marcos (champion goal-keeper in ) nor Ricardo Oliveira were called for the 2006 squad for similar reasons, both players just returning from serious injuries, though already getting restarted on their teams. Parreira's criterion to leave out anyone unfit to play from the start, was announced when the coach released his 2006 rooster, Edmílson's case having constituted no exception.
 
There was, however, a now clear single exception, however not clearly stated at the time the squad was announced: Ronaldo.
 
World Cup Squads:           2006 WC Players' Sources        World Cup Stadia & Matches
#      Group A      Group B      Group C      Group D #
1 Germany England Argentina Mexico 1
2 Costa Rica Paraguay Côte d'Ivoire Iran 2
3 Poland Trinidad and Tobago Serbia and Montenegro Angola 3
4 Ecuador Sweden Netherlands Portugal 4
#      Group E      Group F      Group G      Group H #
1 Italy Brazil France Spain 1
2 Ghana Croatia Switzerland Ukraine 2
3 United States Australia Korea Republic Tunisia 3
4 Czech Republic Japan Togo Saudi Arabia 4
Squad Abbreviations used by FIFA, as well as in this eBook
 
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Germany England Argentina Mexico
Costa Rica Paraguay Côte d'Ivoire Iran
Poland Trinidad and Tobago Serbia and Montenegro Angola
Ecuador Sweden Netherlands Portugal
     Group E:      Group F:      Group G:      Group H:
Italy Brazil France Spain
Ghana Croatia Switzerland Ukraine
United States Australia Korea Republic Tunisia
Czech Republic Japan Togo Saudi Arabia
 
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Footnote:
As remarked, above, Parreira is a veteran of World Cups: his debut in the soccer world was as an expert in physical training, nearly 40 years ago. This was also his function in the 1970 victorious Brazilian Team, in Mexico, at the end of the "Pelé era" – the Brazilian coach, then, was Zagallo (Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo), who currently plays a technical coordination role in the Brazilian Team.
Parreira eventually started coaching at Club level. Later on, at National Squad level,  he successfully took charge of Kuwait (1982), Ghana (1967), United Arab Emirates (1990), Saudi Arabia (1998), and of course Brazil (1994 & 2006). In 1994, Parreira took the Brazilian Squad to its fourth World Cup Title, in the United States, at a web period, during which Romário was some kind of lone star, in a Team that was just regular, by comparison to other Brazilian squads. Parreira was not Brazil's coach in the last World Cup, though. The 2002 winning coach was Scolari, who is now in charge of the Portuguese Squad.
In 1991, Parreira remarkably led a very modest Brazilian Club (Bragantino) to the final match of the National Cup, which they lost to São Paulo's outstanding team, then. (That team of São Paulo's was to go on to win the South American and World Club Championships, in the follow-up.)
Among the many Clubs that Parreira has led to success are Valencia (Spain), Fenerbahce (Turkey), São Paulo (Brazil), New York Metro Stars (United States), and Brazilian Fluminense (at various times), Atlético-MG, Santos and Internacional-RS.
After leading a then modest Corinthians team to conquer the Brazilian Cup Title, in 2002, Carlos Alberto Parreira was once more put in charge of the Brazilian Squad, where he is to this day.
Whether or not his good star and long streak of successes will prevail, in Germany 2006...well, time of course will tell!...
 
Zagallo Parreira
1994
Zagallo (Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo) currently aids Parreira as Brazil's technical coordinator. The two of them are known to be good friends and to enjoy working together, in fact, since the 1970 World Cup, which the Brazilian Squad won. Zagallo was Brazilian World Champion as a player (1958, 1962), then as coach (1970), then as technical coordinator (1994), a function he currently once more fulfills beside Parreira.
 
Note 1: There will be five Brazilian-born coaches in the coming World Cup, in Germany: in addition to Parreira, referred to, above, leading the Brazilian Squad, the coaches of the National Squads of Costa Rica, Japan, Portugal and Saudi Arabia have all been born in Brazil, even though the first is now naturalized Costa-Rican. The coach leading the Portuguese Squad was Brazil's coach in the Korea-Japan World Cup, which Brazil won, whereas the coach leading the Saudi Arabian Squad managed Brazil's under-17, as well as under-20 Squads, in 2003, taking both Squads to win the respective Youth World Cups, that year.

Note 2:The only other nation to count on nearly as many different National Squad coaches at the World Cup, in Germany, is the Netherlands.
 
 
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