South Africa and Brazil are facing off in a friendly international match of the past two World Cup hosts and as Rio and the nation get prepared, the game will be at National Stadium and streaming online from 12 pm noon ET and has the Brazilians looking to get prepared for the upcoming tournament in their nation and comes ahead of the United States and Ukraine later in the day.
Brazil comes in after winning against Chile and Honduras by a combined score of 7-1 in their last two friendly matches and before that the team also won against Zambia and South Korea, as they were able to get into the World Cup without problems as the host nation. Brazil also was big by winning the Confederations Cup and that came against Spain and that was a huge match, as the Spanish team won the last tournament and Euros and now they are looking to win it all again and that came before some other friendly performances that were good, including against Australia and Portugal.
The Brazil team has plenty of expectations coming into the tournament and they have two more matches on the schedule after South Africa with Panama and Serbia coming up in June and now it is less than 100 days until the start of the World Cup and the second match for Brazil will be from stadio Cicero Pompeu de Toledo. Neymar, Fred and Oscar come into the match with the most goals for the team, while Neymar also has the most assists and he will be the top player to watch once the World Cup starts for the nation, as he gives them a great chance to win out.
South Africa won against Spain in their last friendly and Brazil comes in with Group A in the World Cup and they will start things off against Croatia for the first match and they have an easy road through, as they play in the same group as Mexico and Cameroon. The next match is against Mexico on the next Tuesday and then Brazil plays against Cameroon and they should be able to get through to the next round.
