At 80 minutes of play, the plate is raised. The number 12 is on and the number 1 shirt is out. South Korea had scored a goal a few minutes ago, but it was not a punishment that coach Tite was applying to the Brazilian goalkeeper. He was making sure that all the players he brought to Qatar 22 were on the field.
With this replacement, and with the entry of the third goalkeeper from Brazil, Tite reached the quarterfinals with one certainty: all the athletes he took to the World Cup played. Even if it was only for a few minutes.
43,847 people watched the game that placed Brazil in the quarterfinals at stadium 974, a game that will be played on Friday against Croatia.
But it was not necessary the fifth game in the World Cup to put the whole team on the field. He reached 100% of the squad and right at the World Cup, which had 26 athletes.
Brazil used the 26 players called up in the #FIFA World Cup
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– FIFA World Cup ???? (@fifaworldcup_es) December 5, 2022
Previously, only two teams had maxed out, according to ESPN: Greece in 1994 and the Netherlands in 2014.
In the 1994 World Cup, held in the United States of America, Greece used all 22 players it took in three games. The 1994 championship had Brazil as the winner, but they had to wait for penalties to beat Italy. In 2014, in Brazil, the Netherlands used 23 athletes in seven games. Germany won the 2014 World Cup in the final against Argentina, which they won 1-0.
In the rest of the world, Brazil did not reach 100% utilization. It was even in the championship of bad memory for Brazil (when it lost 7-1 against Germany in the championship organized by itself), in 2014, that Luiz Felipe Scolari used 21 of the 23 summoned, that is, 91% of the team. The same percentage that had been used in 2002 when Brazil won the penta, also with Scolari.
These are the uses of Brazil, according to ESPN:
2022 – 26 of 26 used (100%)
2018 – 18 of 23 used (78%)
2014 – 21 of 23 used (91%)
2010 – 19 of 23 used (83%)
2006 – 19 of 23 used (83%)
2002 – 21 of 23 used (91%)
1998 – 19 of 22 used (86%)
1994 – 18 of 22 used (82%)
1990 – 16 of 22 used (73%)
1986 – 16 of 22 used (73%)
1982 – 16 of 22 used (73%)
1978 – 17 of 22 used (77%)
1974 – 18 of 22 used (82%)
1970 – 16 of 22 used (73%)
1966 – 20 of 22 used (91%)
1962 – 12 of 22 used (54.5%)
1958 – 16 of 22 used (73%)
1954 – 13 of 22 used (59%)
1950 – 17 of 22 used (77%)
1938 – 20 of 22 used (91%)
1934 – 11 of 17 used (65%)
1930 – 15 of 22 used (68%)
Source: Observadora
