Scolari aiming to lead 'competitive' Brazil to final

"It’s not a marvellous side but it’s competitive." It is extremely doubtful whether coach Luiz Felipe Scolari would have still been in a job if he had made this admission about his Brazilian team a year ago.

Brazil, the nation which brought us the Beautiful Game via the talents of Pele, Rivelino and Jairzinho, came to this World Cup under the tutelage of a man known as ‘Big Phil’.