The last time Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri — better-known as Dunga — participated in a major international soccer game at the Rose Bowl, he delivered the penalty kick that gave Brazil its fourth World Cup title.
That was 22 years ago. Yet Dunga, in his second stint as coach of the Brazilian national team, still gets emotional talking about that day.
“I remember many things,” he said in Spanish after a training session at the StubHub Center last week. “In Brazil, we always say penalty kicks — the president should take them, not the players, because it’s a big responsibility.