The Brazilian central Luisao denied today that Venezuela will be the easiest opponent in Group B of the Copa America, where both teams will participate together with Paraguay and Ecuador.
"We expect a very difficult opponent," said the defender of Benfica of Portugal on debut the five-time world champion will be on Sunday in La Plata to the Venezuelans, DPA reported. Luisao said not to know "until after 90 minutes which rival is weak and what not." "Before we play we can not think Venezuela will be the team with less quality," he said after training.
Brazil today resumed their practices open to the media, after the Wednesday afternoon closed for about an hour to coach Mano Menezes could rehearse the moves of strategy. The technician has already defined the training debut against the Venezuelans. Julio Cesar, Dani Alves, Lucio, Thiago Silva and Andre Santos, Lucas Leiva, Ramires and Paulo Henrique Goose, Robinho, Alexandre Pato and Neymar will be the starting eleven. The "verdeamarela" will defend the two titles he won in previous editions, Peru 2004 and Venezuela 2007.
