“Joga bonito” is a phrase utilized by Brazilians to explain how the sport of soccer ought to be performed.
“Joga” is the verb “to play” in Portuguese, whereas “bonito” means “stunning”. The philosophy revolves round particular person ability, creativity and a mindset to assault.
Soccer is not only a recreation in Brazil, it’s ingrained in tradition, with greater than two million registered gamers.
Rugby, however, nonetheless stays an unknown sport among the many majority of the individuals from the South American nation, even with Brazil making their debut on the Ladies’s Rugby World Cup in opposition to South Africa on Sunday.
Brazil, who’re the lowest-ranked staff on the World Cup in twenty fifth, have solely performed 16 Exams of XV-a-side rugby and celebrated their first win in 2023 over Portugal.
Regardless of the huge distinction in participant pool, assets and world triumphs, the rugby-playing mindset stays the identical as that in soccer.
“They’ve absolute pace and are at their very best when they’re decisive and skim what is going on in entrance of them and react within the second,” Brazil ladies’s sevens coach Crystal Kaua informed BBC Sport.
“I at all times say it’s like driving in Sao Paulo [which has 12 million inhabitants]. With the motorbikes, for those who see area then it’s important to take it. They are not huge so they have to make sensible and quick choices.”
To qualify for the World Cup, Brazil needed to defeat Colombia within the South American play-off – a hurdle they’d failed at six occasions beforehand.
With the ladies’s sevens staff thriving on the World Collection, the choice was made to push for qualification by bringing of their sevens stars for the play-off recreation, leading to a cushty 34-13 victory.
Among the many 32 gamers chosen for the World Cup, 11 have competed in no less than one Olympic Video games.
Fly-half Raquel Kochhann, who has solely six caps in XVs, was a type of gamers that head coach Emiliano Caffera approached to assist seal qualification.
Just like the overwhelming majority of youngsters in Brazil, Kochhann’s dream was to play skilled soccer, however damage ended her hopes.
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