AL RAYYAN, Qatar — For 45 minutes, then 90, and then 15 more, Brazil tried all the tools in its considerable arsenal: the toe pokes and the back heels, the sweetly bending curlers and the outside-of-the-foot slices. As its frustration mounted, its coach sent on new forwards, and his team pivoted to some of soccer’s darker arts: the dives and flops, the feigned outrage and shirt pulls, the arms-out appeals to the referee for justice. …read more
Source:: WRAL
