Who – The Brazilian and Scottish national football teams.
What – Friendly Match.
Where – The Emirates, London.
When – 27th March 2011
Why – Because my favourite player plays for the Brazilian national team.
Justification
I think this article is important to include because my favourite football player, Neymar plays for Brazil. Also, it was interesting seeing the best national football team play against one of the not so good national teams. Bizarrely the Scottish and the Brazilian fans were mixed in the stands. Normally the fans would not be aloud to sit in the same stands due to match tension and violence. The fans mixed well which is important to mention because it shows fans can cooperate instead
Outline
• Friendly match with the Brazilian nation team and the Scottish national team
• A very young Brazilian team and a pretty experienced Scottish team
• 19 year old Neymar scores two goals
• Brazil win 2-0
First draft of article
19 year old wonder kid Neymar stole the show in the friendly clash between Scotland and Brazil at a packed out Emirates.
Brazil sent out a young team in a friendly against a pretty experienced Scottish
The Brazilians started the better team coming close twice with Jadson’s fierce shot from an angle and Leandro Damiao headed effort clipping the top of the bar early in the game.
Brazil looked in total control and looked to the be the first team to bread the dead-lock.
And that was the deal, in the 42nd minute, Andre Santos played the ball to Neymar inside the 18 yard box, the 19 year old Santos forward took one touch to control it, opened his body and curled the ball into the far corner of the net.
The Brazilians started the 2nd half the better team coming close on a couple of times, Neymar being the first with a blistering shot that just went over the bar within the 1st minute.
Brazil carried on piling bodies forward. They almost got a 2nd goal when the ball was played out wide to Dani Alves who picked out Ramires but the Chelsea midfielder couldn’t control his shot and fired high over from about 11 yards.
Leandro Damioa once again came close when a corner was swung in but the 21 year old Internacional striker could only head wide.
The 2nd goal the Brazilians were looking for finally came 13 minutes from time when Neymar received the ball just inside the 18 yard box; he did a lovely piece of skill to get around his defender but a tackle from Blackpool’s Charlie Adam brought down the young striker summing up the Scottish midfielders poor performance.
The referee had no hesitation and pointed straight to the penalty spot.
Neymar stepped up to take the spot kick and coolly slotted the ball in the bottom left corner while Scotland’s keeper, Allan McGregor went the opposite way.
Couple minutes later Liverpool’s midfielder, Lucas Leiva went on a wonderful run combining with Neymar but the teenagers shot was deflected in to the arms of Allan McGregor.
Although Brazil dominated the majority of the game, the Scots came close to pulling a goal back when Aston Villa midfielder, Barry Bannan’s free-kick was on target but the experienced Julio Cesar dealt with it well.
Another Brazilian teenager also almost made a name for himself when 18 year old Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva or simply Lucas, who came on to make his full international debut, showed a lovely piece of trickery and pace to set up Valencia striker Jonas Oliveira but the 6ft striker’s shot went over the crossbar in injury time.
The Brazilians knew they had secured victory and just kept the ball for the remainder of the game. At the full time whistle, the fans applauded both teams for what was an exciting game at the Emirates.
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