Brazil Football Formation

Lineup (3-4-3)

Brazil's All time Greatest XI 'O Estado de São Paulo’s version' (1998)

Making an All-Time Brazil team is as enjoyable as it is difficult. You can’t field a team with 11 playmakers and forwards. So hard choices have to be made. We all love Sócrates, but was he better than Zico? What’s more important: Romário’s longevity or Ronaldo’s peak brilliance? What to do with the old masters Zizinho and Leonidas?

Throughout the years, there have been several attempts to make an All-Time Brazil team.

In 1998, the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo created a very different team. This side upsets the balance between the generations. It drops all the pre-historic names (Da Guia, Zizinho, Leônidas), several 1958 stars (Zito, Djalma Santos) and replaces them with legends from the 70′s (Rivelino, Gérson, Tostão, Pereira), and 80′s (Falcão and Zico). There’s just one problem: the team is unrealistic. A 3-3-4 with the forward Tostão on midfield flouts the rule that ideal formations should be able to ‘work’.

So, who would we choose as a Coach/Manager for this team?
My pick is Vicente Feola and Aymoré Moreira.

The reserves can be a choice of hundreds... Pick any good player right from the times of Ademir to the times of Kaká.