August 5 – A Brazilian council official is proposing creating a ‘Goal to Germany’ day every July to make the national team remember their humiliating 7-1 World Cup defeat last year.
Jota Silva said the day would serve to “reflect on what happened on July 8,” when the eventual world champions embarrassed Brazil in the semi-finals on home soil, their heaviest ever World Cup defeat.
“It wouldn’t be a holiday, just a day to remember,” Silva told Reuters. “For two to three months afterwards people were joking about it, people were always saying, ‘another goal to Germany!’
“But Brazil’s downward spiral in football has been going on for some time. And we need to ask, where do we go from here? A day would give us a chance to reflect.”
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