Brazil coach,felipe scolari has revealed his feelings on diego costa's neglect of his country to switch to current world and european champions,spain.The atletico madrid striker decided recently to switch allegience which doesnt go down well with scolari. “He [Costa] is one of the 45 players I
have on my list,” he said at a press
conference. “The Brazilian Football
Confederation [CBF] said that he was not
going to be allowed to join the Spanish
national team. I was asked through e-
mail whether I would be ok with that and
I gave my thoughts.
“I'm still the coach here so I can say what
I think. I can't fight against laws, but
within my evaluation criteria, he's one of
the players that are part of my team,
initially, and that could or could not be on
the final list.”
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013
FELIPE SCOLARI AGAINST DIEGO COSTA SPAIN SWAP.
Saturday, 12 October 2013
NEYMAR AND OSCAR SEALS WIN FOR BRAZIL
Strikes from neymar and oscar were enough to seal the win for the selacao in seoul,getting their third straight victory in the process.
Neymar was felled by Lee Yong on
the right and the Barcelona star
Picked himself up to curl a superb
25-yard Free-kick into the corner on the stroke of half-time.
And Scolari’s men doubled their lead four minutes after the interval,
Oscar collected a defence-splitting pass
from Paulinho and deftly beat the
goalkeeper before shooting into the
empty goal.
Felipe scolari's men now have one more friendly to go,coming against zambia in beijing on tuesday.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
DIEGO COSTA TO MISS QUALIFIERS FOR SPAIN
Brazilian-born atletico madrid striker,diego da silva costa has missed out on a place in Spain's squad for their final World
Cup qualifiers - as he waits for clearance after switching allegiance.
Costa, 24, has scored eight goals in
Seven games for Atletico this term and has now opted to play for spain.