The Brazilian team lingered in its locker room for a couple of hours after Friday’s 2-0 win over the U.S., occasionally sending Neymar, its captain, out to pluck an NBA player or some other celebrity from the waiting crowd and inviting him in.
The U.S. players, on the other hand, filed out of their dressing room up the hall and into the team bus quickly. If the Brazilians, who have made it to the quarterfinals or beyond in the last six World Cups, were content with where they were, the Americans clearly had somewhere to go.
Coming off its first failed World Cup campaign in 32 years, the U.