Today we finished the first stage of our World Cup preparation, now we have nine months to focus on the tournament. But we need to keep working hard, we still have a chance to finish the qualifying tournament in first place. That's our next goal.

Carlos Parreira

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They changed their setup a bit, that made things harder for us. But we were able to catch up in the second half, controlling the match again.

— Carlos Parreira

There's no reason to deny the request. We know he already was doubtful to play against Zaragoza.

— Carlos Parreira

This will be useful in that we will be meeting a team with some similar characteristics to Australia, our opponents in our second game.

— Carlos Parreira

The weather conditions did not help us.

— Carlos Parreira

We have less than one year before the World Cup. I want to have the best team in all the games, the qualifiers and every friendly before the competition.

— Carlos Parreira