grecianite
Member
16/01/2012 17h02 - Updated 16/01/2012 17h36
First rival of Brazil, with friendly English team dream in 2014
Exeter City intend to celebrate one hundred years of the opening game. According to the club's website, Mano Menezes was responsible for initial contact to departure
For GLOBOESPORTE.COM
Rio de Janeiro
A friendly history may precede the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The Exeter City, who played English club's first official match in the history of the Brazilian on July 21, 1914, or republish the confrontation exactly 100 years later, in Rio de Janeiro. At the time, the game took place in Orange, but the stage of the new friendly festival could be the Maracana.
Two leaders of Exeter, England's third division, inclusive, are already in the Marvelous City to try to negotiate an agreement to pursue the match. According to the Daily Mail and the BBC, both were talking to the region for the club and the board would still be looking for partners to try to facilitate the comparison.
Time of Exeter City, the first rival of the Brazilian, currently, the third division (Reuters)
Edward Chorlton, club president confirmed to British vehicles that the intention to organize, yes, a game to commemorate the centenary of the confrontation, which ended with victory by Brazil 2-0 (goals by Osman and Osvaldo Gomes).
- We still have no guarantees that we can reprint this amazing game, but we owe it to ourselves. The club and the fans. It is important that this centenary was celebrated. The Brazilians are friendly and I'm sure that with the visit of the ambassadors, the negotiation will progress the best way to organize it - he said.
The Exeter and Brazil have been found elsewhere, in 2004, when the English club celebrated its centenary. The team faced a team of former Brazilian players, who had, among other stars, the likes of Dunga and Bald (who scored the winning goal by 1 to 0). Another curious detail is that the team uses as its slogan the phrase "Have you ever played Brazil?" ("Have you ever played against Brazil?") To provoke opponents.
Project began with Mano Menezes
According to a statement on the official website of the Exeter City, was the coach Mano Menezes who started this project. A year and a half, he would have invited executives of the club to start conversations about this possibility. After this first contact, the club would have talked with representatives of TV channels and CBF to examine the potential that the game would appeal.
Julian Tagg, one of the leaders who came to Rio in the last days, he explained that since the right move at this time by representatives of the club was just traveling to Brazil to try to close a deal.
- For various reasons, we believe that this was the time to go to Brazil. We also wish to formalize areas of action and enhance the financial return. However, there is still a long way between dream and reality and we can not stick to illusions - completed.
