The most successful national football team in the history of the FIFA World Cup, is the Brazil national football team, also a member of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and also a member of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) since 1923 and since 1916. The team represents the country Brazil in international men’s football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), a controlled governing body of Brazil.With three titles in the FIFA Confederations Cup, they are the most successful team that bears International shirts. At continental level, Brazil has won eight Copa América titles.
Since 1960, Brazil has also been marked as one of the most competitive teams every decade, strongest football nation in the world and ranked fifth in the FIFA Confederations Cup after winning the 2005 and the 2009 edition of the tournament. Brazil is the only national football team to have played in every World Cup finals.
The only team to have won the championship in four different continents; once in Europe (1958 Sweden), once in South America (1962 Chile), twice in North America (1970 Mexico and 1994 USA) and once in Asia (2002 S. Korea-Japan) is Brazil. A common quip about football is: Os ingleses o inventaram, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram (The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it).
Various nicknames of the Brazilian national team is known in different parts of the world.Most common one used to refer them, especially in Brazil is selecao, which literally means, the selection.
The team’s first team Football football shirt colours were white with blue collars, but after their defeat in the 1950 World Cup, the colours were criticised for lacking patriotism. With permission from the Brazilian Sports Confederation, the newspaper Correio da Manhã held a competition to design a kit incorporating the four colours of the Brazilian flag.Aldyr Garcia Schlee, a nineteen year old from Pelotas draw the winning design of yellow jersey with green trim and blue shorts with white trim.During the match against Chile in March 1954, the new Brazil football shirts were first used and were still used till today.
Amazingly famous in any parts of the world is the Brazil national footbal team. By mentioning the term “football”, Brazil national football team will be the first to be remembered as team with full spirit in winning.
Phil Smith knows his international shirts and is a writer for the footie shirt search engine Football Shirt Search.