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The name may be the same but much has changed as Brazil try to put the disaster of the World Cup in the past with their first game of the Copa America, against Peru on SundayTwo weeks ago, Fred, the diminutive Shakhtar Donetsk forward, made his home debut for Brazil in a friendly against Mexico in São Paulo. When his name was read out before kickoff, he was roundly booed: the crowd didn’t realise he was the 22-year-old Frederico Rodrigues Santos, and assumed he was the other Fred, the 31-year-old Frederico Chaves Guedes, the Fluminense striker who was one of the chief scapegoats for the disaster of the World Cup.
The older, taller Fred retired from international football after the World Cup, jumping before he was pushed, but he has not been forgiven. The mood in Belo Horizonte the night of the 7-1 defeat to Germany may have been one of shock, but as the numbness has worn off what has been left is a sense of pain and anger which will perhaps never be wholly erased.
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The older, taller Fred retired from international football after the World Cup, jumping before he was pushed, but he has not been forgiven. The mood in Belo Horizonte the night of the 7-1 defeat to Germany may have been one of shock, but as the numbness has worn off what has been left is a sense of pain and anger which will perhaps never be wholly erased.
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