Brazil can still feel the blow that they received from Germany on July 8 when the nations battled against each other and the home team succumbed to a shocking 7-1 defeat. It was a surprising result that almost anyone was not expecting to see.

Brazil manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has spoken about the possibility of winning the World Cup 2014, which will be held in Brazil. The World Cup returns to the South American continent and there is high expectation that Brazil will be the champions due to the home support. However, this can also be negative aspects for the team since they will be feeling the pressure of the 200 million supporters in front of them. Scolari has the experience of previously lifting the World Cup title with Brazil. This time around, he has named a relatively young team for the competition.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has named his 23 man squad for the World Cup 2014 and it already features a number of surprising omissions. Former World Cup winner Kaka has not been included in the squad, as the former Chelsea manager has gone for current form rather than experience or youth. Further, Scolari has a lot of options in the attacking midfield area, which deemed Kaka surplus to requirements. Ronaldinho, who was also not expected to feature in the squad, also appears to have played his last match.

Brazil’s national team manager Luis Felipe Scolari said that the performance of Manchester City midfielder Fernandinho impressed him a lot.

The 30-year-old has been in the wilderness with regard to the Brazil national team. It has largely been because he has been playing in the Ukrainian league for several years. However, he has returned to the high-profile English Premier league with Manchester City in the summer. He was signed for £ 30 million by the Premier league outfit, who have been using him consistently as the defensive partner for Yaya Touré.

The man who is responsible on deciding which players will be representing Brazil for the 2014 World Cup as well as selecting which formation would be better depending on the teams they have to face, Felipe Scolari is optimistic that his team will take home the World Cup title.

"We are playing at home, we have the fans on our side and a team which is competitive and has a lot of quality. We have everything that allows us to be the best team. That's why I fully trust that we can make it to the final and be the champion." Scolari said.

Brazil have a unique situation whereby they have a lot of quality outfield players, but the goalkeeping situation is quite alarming.

National team manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has only a couple of goalkeepers to choose from ahead of the World Cup 2014. One of them is QPR goalkeeper Julio Cesar, who used to play for Inter Milan a few seasons ago. It was not long ago that he won the best goalkeeper in the world award, but he has not been in the best of shape in recent times.

The 2013/14 Premier League season is one of the hardest to predict of recent times, making for some good betting odds. Man United would usually start as favourites but with Alex Ferguson’s departure, it seems like Chelsea, Man City and Arsenal have all sensed the opportunity for a long term power shift.

After taking over from Mano Menezes only a few months ago, Luiz Felipe Scolari managed to get the Brazilian national team to Confederations cup success.

After the tournament, there has been several talk about the future squads. Many have already started predicting the squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Brazil. Since the Confederations cup was the last tournament to have competitive matches for Brazil before the World Cup, many are predicting that Scolari will not be making huge changes to the squad.

Recent near misses in the race for Champions League qualification may see Tottenham make a few big moves in the transfer market in order to try and get there this coming season.

Already, they have splashed out £17m on Brazilian holding midfielder Paulinho, who joins from Corinthians.

Former Brazil manager Mano Menezes has said that the team has stagnated following the arrival of Luiz Felipe Scolari for his second spell in charge of the team. After a run of poor results, it looked like Menezes was getting the team to function extremely well.