Brazil: from now until the kick off
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May 13th, 2010
Coach Dunga announced the roster of Brazilian players for the World Cup 2010.
Until May 21st, all players must show up at Granja Cumari, the CBF training center in Rio de Janeiro. On the 22nd, the team flies to Curitiba, in the Southern State of Paraná, where they will stay for five days training at the stadium of Atletico Paranaense.
Curitiba is one of the host cities of the World Cup 2014; CBF chose Curitiba because the latitude of the city is nearly the same as the cities in South Africa where Brazil will play, hence having the same temperatures.
On May 26th, Brazil will fly to South Africa. Brazil will stay at the Hotel Fairway, in Randburg, close to Johannesburg. Not much was informed about this training period, but Dunga already said he won’t repeat the mistakes of the World Cup 2006, and one such mistake was the excessive freedom of the players.
CBF announced that between May 26th and June 11th, Brazil will play two friendly matches; the countries or teams which will play these friendlies are not known yet (however, there are rumors that the South Africa team asked Brazil to be one such country; South Africa is coached by Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, who said that, because his players didn’t have to play the Qualifyings, they missed opportunities to face stronger teams during the preparation).
On June 15th, Brazil plays the first match, against North Korea, in Johannesburg.
On June 20th, Brazil plays against Ivory Coast, in Johannesburg.
On June 25th, Brazil plays against Portugal, in Durban.
After then, nobody knows where Brazil will go.