[Webb]

Greece can't handle us.

Founded 1914
Affiliated 1923

WC participations 17 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)

WC honours 5-time FIFA World Cup winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002), 2-time FIFA World Cup runners-up (1950, 1998), twice finished in 3rd place (1938, 1978)

Continental Titles Copa America 7 times (1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1999), Pan American Cup 4 times (1963, 1975 with Mexico, 1979, 1987)
Facts

* Brazil can rightly lay claim to being called the kings of football. They have lifted the FIFA World Cup on five occasions. They also hold the attendance record for their defeat to Uruguay in front of 200,000 spectators on home soil in 1950.


* Brazil won their first FIFA World Cup title eight years later in Sweden with a team which included a 17-year-old legend-in-the-making by the name of Pelé. Their hardest-earned FIFA World Cup triumph came in 1994, when the Auriverde won on penalties to


* end a 24-year drought during which their teams struggled to come to terms with the physical style of opposition teams. Despite lifting the FIFA World Cup in 2002, Brazil will still have to qualify for the 2006 tournament.