A brilliant piece by twoht on World Cup favourites Brazil...
The last of those came 20 years ago. The 2002 World Cup was a curious affair in which surprise results throughout the tournament opened the knockout stages up. France, Portugal, Argentina and Croatia all fell in the first round, Italy in the second, and Spain in the quarter-finals.
In 1986, when they were knocked out in the quarter-finals on penalty kicks by France, Brazil still only had two foreign-based players, the same number as England. But by the time they won the trophy for first time in almost a quarter of a century in 1994, that number had swollen to 11. It jumped again to 13 in France in 1998, but in 2002 it was back down to 10. But the 2002 win changed things, it would seem, perpetually.
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