The Mineiraço: Brazil 1 - 7 Germany

This is still one of the most unbelievable games I've seen eleven years after it happened. 

Let's analyse the game, play-by-play: 

FIRST HALF: 

• Germany won the toss, kicks the ball around while waiting for kickoff.

• Brazilian players look a little nervous just before kick off as camera zooms in on some faces while German players look completely focused.

• Brazil look firmly in control in the first few minutes. 

• Sami Khedira orchestrates a move that leads to a chance at goal in the 7th minute & gains Germany some confidence. 

• After committing some fouls & looking like they lacked pace, Germany gets a goal from a badly defended corner-kick in Brazil's half. 

• Brazil shaken after the Germany goal but still look in control. 

• Brazil offense look a bit disorientated & not in a hurry to equalize in the 15th minute. 

• Brazil's defenders seem to be doing more attacking than the forwards. 

• Brazil going forward but just not finding the goal. German defense doing the job so far in the 19th minute. 

• Brazil lose focus in defense & Germany walks in a goal. 

• Brazil's defense looks lazy & sleepy. Germany get an UNCHALLENGED strike at goal. It's 3-0 to Germany on the 24th minute. 

• Brazil's defense caught sleeping again, 4-0 to Germany at the 25th minute. Brazil are stunned. 

• By the 25th minute, there's consensus that the game is already over. 

• Brazil's attack disoriented, their defense non-existant. 

• Germany make it 5-0 by the 28th minute. Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari making no substitutions. 

• Brazil's defense is notably terrible & their striker, Fred, is nowhere to be seen in play. 

• Luiz Felipe Scolari has still not substituted Fred in the 38th minute. 

• Brazil's defenders still doing a lot of the attacking while attacking players seem invisible. 

• Germany looks solid & unshaken. Laser focused. 

SECOND HALF: 

• In the 46th minute, Scolari substitutes Hulk & Fernandinho but not Fred for some reason. Maybe due to lack of options. German defense gets fresh legs in Per Mertesacker. 

• Some penalty calls for Brazil, in the 48th minute, not given which could've given them much needed hope. 

• Brazil's attack still looking very lazy even with the addition of Paulinho. Fred looking careless with the ball & showing no real intent to score. 

• Ramirez forced into attack because of the incompetence of the frontline.

• Neuer not giving Brazil a whiff of hope & blocks both attempts by Paulinho in the 52nd minute. 

• Germany's attack has slowed down in the second half. Joachim Löw adds Schürrle to boost the German offense. 

• Paulinho already looking faded after playing just 18 minutes & making lots of mistakes in the 64th minute. 

• Germany make it 6-0 in the 68th minute & Brazil's defense looks like little kids. 

• Fred finally substituted in the 70th minute but Brazil's attack still wasteful of opportunities. 

• Brazil seems to pass when they should shoot in the 84th minute. 

• Oscar scores an insignificant goal for Brazil & game is over.

Some things to take from this game: 

• Without Neymar Jr. & Thiago Silva, Brazil were terrible in both offense & defense.

• Two or three penalty calls for Brazil could've helped the scoreline look more respectable. 

• Scolari's faith in Fred was unjustified. 

• Brazil's defense was extra, extra horrible. Unguided & leaderless. 

• Germany looked solid, unshaken & laser focused. 

• Maybe Germany's kit really helped somehow. 

How intimidating can a red & black kit really be in sport's psychology?

FULL GAME: Brazil v Germany | FIFA World Cup 2014  

Germany went on to defeat prime Messi's Argentina in the World Cup Final to prove that the Mineiraço was no fluke. 

At some point someone needs to study how Germany can be so mismatched pound-for-pound in terms of talent but still end up winning so convincingly. It always happens but somehow still so unusual.

We're an abundant commodity.

As black people, sometimes, we tend to overvalue our importance. If you can disappear this very moment & the world will be the same without you - you just don't matter. What we don't understand is that there is no shortage of black people anywhere. As a black male, you are as replaceable as the next black male. So the more you assume you're the main character, the more obnoxious you become & the less needed you & the black race becomes. We need less vanity & more progress. A black person with seventy cars is just as good as a black person with none to other races, we need to wake up to the real global world & see how other races see us.

What will it take to reach a truly non-racial South Africa?

In my world, it's very difficult to ignore race & how it determines people's lives so I don't know what these people claiming we should ignore race are on but let's play along. What would it take to achieve a racially-oblivious South Africa? 

Firstly, we'd need to get rid of mentalities we inherited from Apartheid; we need to see a human being & a person first not his (or her) race & his racial stereotype first. We need to stop looking at black opulence as a negative & stop finding jokes in white poverty. Many of us still chuckle when we see interracial couples in South Africa but we'd need to stop that also. 

But, ultimately, I think any attempt at non-racialism is futile because race is not fiction, it's a biological reality. There'll be mixed-race people who would attempt to promote non-racialism but mixed-race communities themselves are an example that non-racialism fails. I think tradition, heritage & centuries old indigenous customs are more important than any racial experiment in the end. 

I can appreciate what the different races of South Africa bring to the table but we may need to accept that for South Africa to truly work, it may need to federate. Like how oil, water & petrol work in the same motor vehicle but not in the same compartments. Or maybe even separate regions into new countries by race. While nobody is taught to be racist, they learn to be racist the more they experience life in South Africa. 

Even if we did legislate non-racialism into law, one race or the other would eventually strive for supremacy rendering the whole practice unworkable.

Two blog posts that are worth reading again.

Fame: https://potmfm.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-reality-of-fame.html

Liberty ideas: https://potmfm.blogspot.com/2025/06/what-happens-when-western-concepts-of.html