Brazil at the 1990 FIFA World Cup

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The Brazil national football team played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and continued to maintained their record of being the only team to enter every World Cup Finals.

The team was coached by Sebastião Lazaroni and the captain was Ricardo Gomes, a defender from Benfica. The Brazilian team used the 3-5-2 formation for the first time in its history and ended up in 9th place.

Brazil played until the Last 16 stage, where they were defeated by Argentina.

1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL Group 3)

July 30, 1989, Caracas, Venezuela -  Venezuela 0 - 4  Brazil

August 30, 1989, Santiago, Chile -  Chile 1 - 1  Brazil

August 20, 1989, São Paulo, Brazil -  Brazil 6 - 0  Venezuela

September 3, 1989, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -  Brazil 2 - 0  Chile

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	4	3	1	0	13	1	+12	7
Chile	4	2	1	1	9	4	+5	5
Venezuela	4	0	0	4	1	18	−17	0

Brazil qualified.

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3	6
Costa Rica	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	4
Scotland	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	2
Sweden	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

10 June 1990

21:00

Brazil	2 – 1	Sweden
Careca 40', 63'	Report	Brolin 79'

Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 62,628

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

16 June 1990

17:00

Brazil	1 – 0	Costa Rica
Müller 33'	Report

Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 58,007

Referee: Neji Jouini (Tunisia)

20 June 1990

21:00

Brazil	1 – 0	Scotland
Müller 82'	Report

Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 62,502

Referee: Helmut Kohl (Austria)

Last 16

24 June 1990

17:00

Brazil	0 – 1	Argentina
	Report	Caniggia 80'

Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 61,381

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

No. Pos. Nat. Name MS Notes 1 GK Taffarel 4 2 RWB Jorginho 4 3 CB R. Gomes 4 21 CB Galvão 4 19 CB R. Rocha 2 Mozer also had two starts 6 LWB Branco 4 4 CM Dunga 4 5 CM Alemão 4 8 AM Valdo 4 15 CF Müller 3 Romário had one start 9 CF Careca 4

Taffarel Galvão R. Gomes R. Rocha Jorginho Branco Alemão Dunga Valdo Careca Müller

2 goals

• Careca
• Müller

• 1990 FIFA World Cup on FIFA.com
• Details at RSSSF
• History of the World Cup-1990
• Planet World Cup - Italy 1990