Add marcelo to the brazil squad

comment by Dunc (U11713)
posted 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
Basing it on individuals playing at the highest level

Argentina have the likes of
Messi
Dybala
Aguero
Mascherano
Higuain
Di maria

Spain have the likes of

Ramos
Carvajal
Isco
Alba
Pique
Busquets
Iniesta
Silva
Thiago

France have

Lloris
Pogba
Varane
Matuidi
Benzema
Kante
Mbappe
Griezmann
Rabiot

Brazil have

Alves
Neymar
Silva
Sandro
Coutinho
Fabinho
Casemiro

These are all players who would walk into 99% of most teams first 11


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Still don't see how those squads are any better than Germany's. I would have more German players than those teams. Germany also seems a lot more balanced from front to back than all those sides bar Brazil. Argentina and France are rather top-heavy with strikers. Spain with midfielders. Germany and Brazil are the best balanced teams around right now.

Brazil needs a little more craft in midfield. Germany need a little more firepower. But they're the best 2 sides at the moment. If Brazil play the way they've been playing through the South American qualies at the World Cup, they'll be a real threat.

comment by The Sniper (U21079)
posted 13 hours, 42 minutes ago
They tend to have players who have fairly unremarkable club careers but legendary international ones. Klose and Podolski are obvious recent examples.
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I think is kind of the point of the article, despite Germany having a lot of talented players.