Real talk, this Brazil loss might be the most devastating loss in the history of sports

[Floyd Pinkerton]

- Brazilians love their soccer as we all know. More than any other country loves anything.
- It's a home game.
- They fukked their economy just to host the WC. Jacked up public transportation and gas costs, cut education and health care spending, displaced thousands of Brazilians living in favelas, rushed building much of the infrastructure needed to host it, and ignored the protests of millions of unhappy Brazilians.
- The last time they hosted the WC they lost 1-0 in the final and they've been waiting 64 years to host it again and win on home soil.
- They got their backs blown out.
- It's a legacy-changing loss. Everything, how they play the game, how they coach the game, how they develop their young players, will have to change.

I can't think of any L that compares to this. Shoutout to @AkaDemiK .

Well put my man. This is the type of loss that rocks the fabric of a country for generations to come--in a myriad of ways, as you've so eloquently stated.

Is it wrong that I nonetheless during the entire match?

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

It up there. This was a soul cleansing defeat for Brasil. Everything has to be re-evaluated for them after this ass kicking in their own home country.

 

[TrueEpic08]

It's ugly enough just within the context of Brazilian football...but when you take into account just how much the government spent on the cup, the displacement of the poor and the YEARS of protesting that came after they got the Cup and the Olympics (which is still going on)...I actually can't think of a bigger sport-related humiliation for a national government. I'm not sure that even Jesse Owens winning the 100m in front of Hitler was this much of an embarrassment, because Nazi Germany still topped the medal table during those Olympics.

It'll be very interesting to see what happens in Brazil in the coming days.

 

[jerniebert]

Invest in soccer and crumble your economy then get blown out brehs

 

[H.J.Duck]

yup. easily too.

what's crazy is that the 4 of the 5 goals in the first half happened because of Brazil's terrible mistakes... Germany's finishing was lethal but the mistakes which lead to goals were unbelieveable.

and Crazy how almost every player on this team, except Neymar and Thiago Silva will be remembered in Brazil as players who played in this game against Germany.

Scolari better be happy he already won the World Cup w/Brazil earlier

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Off the top I can't think of anything.

2004 USA Olympic team losing to Puerto Rico in a relative blowout was about as bad as it gets from an American basketball perspective though, but that wasn't in an actual tournament game.

it was breh

 

[Remote]

They will still love soccer.
And their economy would still be shyt even if they won the World Cup.

Winning it wouldn't be any sort of "we're fukked but it's cool because we won the cup" type shyt.

 

[Type Username Here]

Honestly though, this might have been the best thing to happen to the Brazilian people and the future of that country.

 

[JBoy]

If Germans lose, they go back to having medical and work benefits, world class education, world class infrastructure, factories, vibrant economy, a government that works, labor rights, low corruption.

Brazil...well now they wake up to the state of their country, their new debt and the realization that they have to host the Summer Olympics in two years despire being far behind schedule on the venues and funding.

This loss isn't just a sports loss, it has real world implications.

Rousseff is like right now

 

[TommyHilltrigga]

nothing compares....Football is the religion there....Germany literally just exposed their religion.....all that brazil ever knew, in terms of invulnerability is out the window. One can say many will lose their jobs or even lives over this...the implications are like nothing seen outside of soccer hungry nations

 

[Montez]

This is the greatest L in sports history.

Even Cleveland or Nas can fathom an L like this.

They really thought the spirit of Neymar would carry them

 

[DaDoc04]

Invest in soccer and crumble your economy then get blown out brehs

 

[Majestic Pape]

it was breh

No, I mean it wasn't in the elimination part of the tournament. It was a preliminary game basically.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

If Germans lose, they go back to having medical and work benefits, world class education, world class infrastructure, factories, vibrant economy, a government that works, labor rights, low corruption.

Brazil...well now they wake up to the state of their country, their new debt and the realization that they have to host the Summer Olympics in two years despire being far behind schedule on the venues and funding.

This loss isn't just a sports loss, it has real world implications.

why you gotta bring that economic ether into it

 

[Piff Huxtable]

No, I mean it wasn't in the elimination part of the tournament. It was a preliminary game basically.

ok got you