Copa América-Brazil v Venezuela - as it happened anything new in this copa America History

Preamble Just as an episode of Dawson's Creek does not truly start until the best man has appeared, ideally with his coupon doing this really, so a football tournament only really begins when Brazil play their first game this football tournament. That perception will probably be with us for the rest of our reagular days, even though Brazil are no longer the special ones in the copa america football , just another best team from the bottle. The greatest trick they ever pulled was to convince the world that Jogo Bonito still exists style. You could arguement and I will, with fisticuffs if very necessary that this summer is the 25th anniversary of the last side that were Brazilian in both name and nature in football.

There have been very great moments since then, of course there really have, and there will doubtless be more during this Copa America 2011. It's a tournament nu-Brazil have come to love for the people. They have won four of the last five, having triumphed just once in 48 years prior to that also. The defence of their crown player,when won against nine-man Argentina (the two great Juans , Veron and Riquelme also, took the night off) in four years ago , begins against a side who my Venezuelan great  snout, Crispy, tells me are deceptively really handy . If this kid can't get into their first XI,think they can't be too bad .