Brazilian soccer continues to lurch from crisis, with Sunday night time seeing the Seleção knocked out of the Copa America on the group stage after a 1-0 defeat to Peru.
The five-time World Cup winners have didn't qualify from the crew stage of the match for simply the 2nd time in its 100 years in history - the other time coming in 1987 when they finished second in a 3-group team to finish fifth overall - after Raul Ruidiaz's 75th minute goal condemned them to defeat at Foxborough Stadium in Massachusetts.
The winning intention was shrouded in controversy, with Ruidiaz showing to handle the ball into the web from close-range after a intelligent go whipped throughout the face of the intention. The Brazilian defence protested, however in vain.
The defeat marks the today's in a series of low points for the Brazilian country wide group, who have won just three of their final eleven games at Copa America tournaments considering that winning the 2007 edition.
Neymar gave up a risk to show up at the Olympics so as to take a look at to pull his group again to the top of the continental recreation, but instead will head again to Barcelona in disgrace after Brazil's first defeat to Peru in his lifetime.
Brazil's 2014 World Cup semi-ultimate thrashing on house soil by the hands of Germany had previously been held up because the clearest signal of their dying, but failure to attain in opposition to each Ecuador and Peru at this summer time's Copa - main to a humiliating early exit - would now sit up alongside that.
The one win that Dunga's side secured in their three video games got here in opposition to Haiti, a 7-1 mirror-picture of their Germany humiliation which simply sees them presently sitting because the match's joint-top goalscorers. Convenient goals in opposition to a team ranked #119 on this planet, though, do not even come almost covering Brazil's disorders.
Dunga's function at the head of the crew is evidently untenable, however the issues run far deeper than simply the manager. Neymar apart, Brazil's forwards are all either inconsistent (Coutinho) or middling best flat-monitor bullies (Hulk) - even as the defence is insubstantial. The midfield is speculated to exist, however there may be been little ample proof of it over the past few years.
In brief, the high-quality is not there on the pitch. The traditional reserves of Brazilian ability have, come what may, run dry. Neymar apart, fewer and fewer of the world's stars are coming from the ranks of the 5-time World Cup winners. Promising abilities are being misplaced via negative progress programmes, and those who make it through seem to fade away rapid than ever.
Some thing the disorders are, they want selecting quickly - or risk the death of some of the world's fine soccer countries.