Unrecognizable. The Brazil that came and went in the quarters of South Africa did not leave saudades. What we Brazilians call saudades and the Galicians call morriña is the feeling of missing something that is close to us. Part of us. In South Africa, the Brazilian fan felt saudades del nice game. Of the joy, fantasy and illusion that were always part of the essence of canarinha and that, from Dunga's pragmatic, arrogant and unfriendly hands, conspicuous by his absence. Brazil paid the vulgarity of its coach. That he was left to a young Neymar in Santos and led a bureaucratic staff, betting on a system supported by the defense, then entrusting himself to Kaká or Robinho, who scored 0-1 against the Netherlands at 10 '.
The bad news was that this time his body of guard gave the cante, mainly his faithful squire of soul and style, Felipe Melo, who scored a goal on own goal and self-ejected after stepping on Robben in 73 '. Shortly before, Sneijder had scored the goal of the comeback from head to corner kick. Dunga's hard core failed: Lucio, Juan, Gilberto, Julio César … Dunga's empire crumbled in its own essence.
Brazil was eliminated and lost for the next six years, led by leaders such as Ricardo Teixeira and Marco Polo del Nero who, before being arrested by the scandal of the FIFA Gate, hired Dunga again, after the final debacle in 2014 against Germany (1-7). The gaucho was removed after another humiliation, in the group stage of the Copa América Centenario in 2016. And since then it's up to the cute and endearing Tite to rescue the essence canarinha, so threatened.