Brazil National Football Team

The Brazil national football team (Portuguese: Seleção Brasileira de Futebol) represents Brazil in international men's association football. Brazil is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil. They have been a member of the FIFA since 1923 and member of the CONMEBOL since 1916. Brazil is the most successful national football team in the FIFA World Cup with five championships: 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994and 2002. Brazil also has the best overall performance in World Cup history in both proportional and absolute terms with a record of 70 victories in 104 matches played, 119 goal difference, 227 points and only 17 losses.[11][12][13][14] Brazil is the only national team to have played in all World Cup editions without any absence nor need for playoffs.[15] Theseleção is also the most successful national team in the FIFA Confederations Cup with four titles: 1997, 2005, 2009 and2013, being the holder of the last title of the tournament. Brazil, Argentina, and France are the only national teams that have won the three most important men's titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament. They have also won their respective continental championship (Copa América for Brazil and Argentina, and UEFA European Championship for France).

Brazil has the all-time highest average Football Elo Ratingwith 2013.3, and the third all time highest Football Elo Ratingwith 2153 in 1962, only behind the Hungary Golden Team of 1954 and the German team of 2014. Many distinguished commentators consider the Brazil team of 1970 to be the greatest association football team ever, although some argue the case for other teams, such as the Brazil team of 1958 or 1962, with honorary mentions for the gifted 1982 side.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Following the conclusion of the 2016 Copa América, the national team is ranked number 7 in the Elo Ratings[25] and 9 in the FIFA World Ranking. Brazil is the only national team to have won the World Cup on four different continents: once in Europe (1958 Sweden), once in South America (1962 Chile), twice in North America (1970 Mexico and 1994 United States) and once in Asia (2002 Korea/Japan). They also share withSpain a record of 35 consecutive international matches undefeated.[26][27][28] A common quip about football is: "Os ingleses o inventaram, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram" ("The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it").[29][30]