Tite and Brazil at peace with pressure to win before Switzerland opener | David Hytner

The pressure is on Brazil, as always, to win the World Cup and exorcise that 7-1 defeat but Tite is relaxed with the expectation

For a section of the Brazilian media here Tite’s novel policy of rotating the Seleção captaincy from game to game, in an effort to promote collective leadership, raises the obvious question: who gets the gig in the final and lifts the World Cup trophy?

At the last tournament in Brazil the then manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari, had talked about “seven steps to heaven”. His team, notoriously, would descend into hell after step six – the 7-1 humbling against Germany, which has hung over them ever since.

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