Brazil Vs. Holland: a boring Soccer game?

How distant seems the days of jogo bonito and Clockwork Orange.

Until recently, a duel between Brazil and the Netherlands was a guarantee of fireworks, a clash of two schools that prioritized the show over anything else.

Both teams are measured in the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Monday after sending Chile and Slovakia respectively. But this time will be a workers' party. Equipment quite narrow, with a machining football does not lift anyone out of their seats.

Dunga Brazil won a game disciplined, orderly, brand, reflecting the style that characterized him as a player. Netherlands abandoned the school of "total football" of the 70s and today prefer to win playing badly to lose playing well.

"Who said winning without playing well is worth?" Said coach Bert van Marwijk, who asks his players to take the ball and the opponent spaces shrink, not try to find the bow hand whenever they can.

"Before, everyone said that Holland played well but did not win anything. Now we're winning, "was justified Arjen Robben, who makes the only spark of good football in the orange team.

The last two times that were measured, Brazil overcame and eventually reached the final.

In the quarterfinals of the 1994 World Cup, the South Americans won 3-2 on a goal by Branco free kick nine minutes from the end of the match. It was the selection of Romario and Bebeto, authors of the other two goals, with a leader in midfield called Dunga.