Brazil in the World Cup 2010

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Dunga fulfilled his promise: there were no surprises.

This is the roster of 23 players, announced by coach Dunga today, May 11th:

Goalkeepers:
Julio Cesar (Internazionale Milan)
Gomes (Tottenham)
Doni (Roma)

Wings:
Maicon (Internazionale Milan)
Daniel Alves (Barcelona)
Gilberto (Cruzeiro)
Michel Bastos (Lyon)

Defense:
Lucio (Internazionale Milan)
Juan (Roma)
Luisão (Benfica)
Thiago Silva (Milan)

Midfielders:
Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos)
Felipe Melo (Juventus)
Josué (Wolfsburg)
Kleberson (Flamengo)
Elano (Galatasaray)
Ramires (Benfica)
Kaká (Real Madrid)
Julio Baptista (Roma)

Forward:
Luís Fabiano (Sevilla)
Robinho (Santos)
Nilmar (Villarreal)
Grafite (Wolfsburg)

This roster is nearly exactly the same as the one Dunga announced for the last match of the Brazilian team before the World Cup (a match against Ireland that Brazil won by 2 x 0);  the only difference is that Adriano (who had a series of personal problems lately) was replaced by Grafite.

Below, a photo of the line up which started playing against Ireland:

Maicon, Gilberto Silva, Julio Cesar, Juan, Adriano and Lucio.
Ramirez, Robinho, Kaka, Michel Bastos and Felipe Melo.

Dunga will send a list of 30 players to FIFA (the 23 above and other 7 potential substitutes), and can still make changes until June 1st (replacing any of the23 by any of the other 7). However, as a means to make it clear that the 23 principals were already chosen, Dunga didn’t want to announce today the name of the other 7 players.

Update. Later today, after everyone had already absorbed the impact of the 23 players, Dunga announced the  7 reserves: Ronaldinho (Milan), Paulo Henrique Ganso (Santos), Alex (Chelsea), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Diego Tardelli (Atletico MG) and Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim).

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 12:55 pm and is filed under players.