Brazil's console side win week 2 of FIFAe Nations League qualifiers

And once the ball started rolling on screen, logic prevailed: 5-1 in the first match, 2-2 in the second, and the trophy in hand.

The team was the only one in the world to win Weeks 1 and 2Credits: Junior Souza / CBF

The team’s performance, even with the rule changes that made the game slower in Week 2 of the competition, has an explanation: total dedication from the players.

“We’re training more every day, so I think we keep improving with each qualifier. I had told João that this week would be harder, but it turned out that we were even better than in the previous one and ended up champions again,” said HenrykinhO.

For JVictorPRO, the approach in the match that opened the finals run was decisive in securing the second title.

“In the first match we made it 3-1, and that calmed us down a bit. I even thought that, after Colombia, the matches would be harder, but after that win we got another 3-1 in the second game. I knew the tournament could go better because we would face more ‘smooth’ teams. We developed really well, trained a lot, and the result came: champions,” he said.

Coach Thiago Avaré praised the duo’s emotional balance, as they had to wait nearly 30 minutes during the quarterfinal stoppage Credits: Junior Souza / CBF

Coach Thiago Avaré also praised the duo’s emotional balance, as they did not let the long break between the quarterfinal matches affect their confidence or style of play.

“We had a similar situation at the 2024 World Championship, when the Indonesian national team was also involved in something like this: one player ended up disconnecting from the match, we had to wait 30 or 40 minutes, and you learn how to deal with that kind of situation. Today we handled it much better, we managed to come back into the game with much greater intensity, and that’s how we got the win,” said Avaré, who celebrated the fact that Brazil is the only national team in the world to have won the first two weeks of the Qualifiers.

“We were even trying to avoid that curse: every team that won in the first week failed to win the second. But we managed to show our superiority here in South America and take this second title,” he concluded.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.