The 1994 world champion says the attention must switch away from the individual and to the group as a whole as the Selecao head to Russia
Between 1958 and 1970, Brazil won three of four World Cup titles during a golden age that would earn them the status of the world’s greatest football nation.
Come 1994, however, things had slowed. Local media and fans had heaped scorn on the side following their failure in 1990, debating whether the Selecao had lots its soul. Pragmatism had replaced jogo bonito, with defensive midfielder Dunga held up as a symbol of Brazil’s systematic and philosophical failings.