Photos courtesy R.Ribeiro

It is with great sadness that we welcome you to Day Fourteen – the last of our Selecao Bootcamp specials! Here’s Robinho welcoming you with the “D” face. Determinação, we mean. He’s probably listening to “Beat It” on his ipod as the man behind mysteriously looks on.

Anyway, it looks like Dopey’s experimenting again as he sent Julio Cesar, André Santos, Lúcio, Luisão, Maicon, Felipe Melo, Julio Baptista, Robinho and Nilmar to the gym yesterday. The other players trained at the Orlando Stadium. Everyone’s excited and calm – even Brazilian football president Ricardo Teixeira dropped by to have lunch with the players. Another round of bingo, anyone?

Later, good old Gilberto Silva tried to explain what sets the manos apart from their counterparts. “Brazilian teams always smile and laugh; it’s important for our football. We’re all mates. We enjoy each other’s company. We try to take that atmosphere and camaraderie and transform it into good football, good attacking football.”