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Brazil 3-0 Saudi Arabia - December 12, 1997 / Confederations Cup 1997

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Confederations Cup 1997 - Group A

King Fahd International Stadium - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

December 12, 1997

45 000

Brazil

3 - 0

Saudi Arabia

César Sampaio

65'

Romário

73'

Romário

80'

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44' - Substitution Saeed Al Owairanis substituted by Khaled Al Temawi

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63' - Substitution Fahad Al Mehalelis substituted by Ibrahim Al Shahrani

64' - Red card A. S. Zubromawi

65' - Goal César Sampaio65

72' - Substitution Leonardois substituted by Juninho Paulista72

73' - Goal Romário photo Rivaldo

73' - Substitution Denílsonis substituted by Rivaldo73

75' - Substitution Cafuis substituted by Zé Maria75

80' - Goal Romário80

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Brazil

3 - 0

Saudi Arabia

Brazil Saudi Arabia

Team line-ups

Brazil

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Romário8073

Romário

Brazil

B.date29/01/1966

Age31 years

H1m68

positionStriker

Ronaldo

Brazil

B.date22/09/1976

Age21 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Denílson73

Denílson

Brazil

B.date24/08/1977

Age20 years

H1m78

positionLeft Winger

Leonardo72

Leonardo

Brazil

B.date05/09/1969

Age28 years

H1m72

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

César Sampaio65

César Sampaio

Brazil

B.date31/03/1968

Age29 years

H1m77

positionDefensive Midfielder

Conceição

Flávio Conceição

Brazil

B.date12/06/1974

Age23 years

H1m77

positionDefensive Midfielder

Zé Roberto

Brazil

B.date06/07/1974

Age23 years

H1m72

positionLeft central midfielder

Aldair

Brazil

B.date30/11/1965

Age32 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Júnior Baiano

Brazil

B.date14/03/1970

Age27 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

Cafu75

Cafu

Brazil

B.date07/06/1970

Age27 years

H1m76

positionRight full-back

Dida

Brazil

B.date07/10/1973

Age24 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dida		24	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Júnior Baiano		27	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Aldair		32	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Cafu	75	27	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Flávio Conceição		23	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	César Sampaio	65	29	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Zé Roberto		23	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Leonardo	72	28	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Denílson	73	20	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Romário	8073	31	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ronaldo		21	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Saudi Arabia

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Al Jaber

Sami Al Jaber

Saudi Arabia

B.date11/12/1972

Age25 years

H1m75

positionStriker

Al Mehalel63

Fahad Al Mehalel

Saudi Arabia

B.date11/11/1970

Age27 years

H1m70

positionForward

Al Owairan44

Saeed Al Owairan

Saudi Arabia

B.date19/08/1967

Age30 years

H1m84

positionForward

Al Muwalid

Khaled Mossaed Al Muwalid

Saudi Arabia

B.date23/11/1971

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Al Owairan

Khamis Al Owairan

Saudi Arabia

B.date08/09/1973

Age24 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Abdul Ghani

Hussein Abdul Ghani

Saudi Arabia

B.date21/01/1977

Age20 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Al Harbi

Ibrahim Al Harbi

Saudi Arabia

B.date10/07/1975

Age22 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Al Jahani

Mohammed Al Jahani

Saudi Arabia

B.date28/09/1974

Age23 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Al Khilawi

Mohamed Al Khilawi

Saudi Arabia

B.date01/09/1971

Age26 years

positionCentral defender

Zubromawi64

Abdullah Sulaiman Zubromawi

Saudi Arabia

B.date15/11/1973

Age24 years

H1m81

positionRight central defender

Al Deayea

Mohamed Al Deayea

Saudi Arabia

B.date02/08/1972

Age25 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Mohamed Al Deayea		25	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mohamed Al Khilawi		26	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	A. S. Zubromawi	64	24	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Hussein Abdul Ghani		20	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mohammed Al Jahani		23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Khamis Al Owairan		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ibrahim Al Harbi		22	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Khaled Mossaed Al Muwalid		26	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Saeed Al Owairan	44	30	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Fahad Al Mehalel	63	27	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Sami Al Jaber		25	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Zé Maria	75	24	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Juninho Paulista	72	24	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Rivaldo	73	25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Khaled Al Temawi	44	28	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Ibrahim Al Shahrani	63	23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Cafu

Zé Maria

OUT

Flávio Conceição

Dunga

OUT

Ronaldo

Bebeto

OUT

Leonardo

Rodrigo Fabri

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Mário Zagallo

104

Success rate in this team:

72 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Zagallo vs Saudi Arabia

2 victories

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 12, 1997

Zagallo vs Parreira

4 victories

3 draws

5 losses

Latest figure on December 12, 1997

Manager

Age

Match num

Carlos Alberto Parreira

Otto Pfister

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Parreira vs Brazil

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on December 12, 1997

Parreira vs Zagallo

5 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on December 12, 1997

Referee

Nikolay Levnikov

2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Brazil2 matches	General total	Saudi Arabia1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Brazil1 match	Season total	Saudi Arabia1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 16, 1998					Latest figure on December 12, 1997

Videos

February 24, 2012

Comments

Key figures

It's the first time Romário scores at least 2 goals during the same game vs Saudi Arabia in his professional career

Brazil keeps its 22 matches with at least one goal scored away from home running (since 01/08/1993). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 19/05/1981 (12 matches)

It's the first time César Sampaio scores 1 goal in Confederations Cup

Read the next 9 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Away

LNorway 4-2 Brazil30/05/1997

DFrance 1-1 Brazil03/06/1997

VBrazil 3-1 Bolivia29/06/1997

VSouth Korea 1-2 Brazil10/08/1997

VJapan 0-3 Brazil13/08/1997

VSouth Africa 1-2 Brazil07/12/1997

Overall

VSouth Korea 1-2 Brazil10/08/1997

VJapan 0-3 Brazil13/08/1997

VBrazil 4-2 Ecuador10/09/1997

VBrazil 2-0 Morocco09/10/1997

VBrazil 3-0 Wales11/11/1997

VSouth Africa 1-2 Brazil07/12/1997

Current form

Home

VSaudi Arabia 2-1 Kuwait14/09/1997

VSaudi Arabia 5-1 Mali25/09/1997

VSaudi Arabia 1-0 Qatar11/10/1997

VSaudi Arabia 1-0 Iran24/10/1997

DSaudi Arabia 1-1 China06/11/1997

DSaudi Arabia 0-0 Iceland07/12/1997

Overall

VSaudi Arabia 1-0 Qatar11/10/1997

LKuwait 2-1 Saudi Arabia17/10/1997

VSaudi Arabia 1-0 Iran24/10/1997

DSaudi Arabia 1-1 China06/11/1997

VQatar 0-1 Saudi Arabia12/11/1997

DSaudi Arabia 0-0 Iceland07/12/1997

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	4	13
Unbeaten streak	5	15
Drawless streak	4	13
Scoring streak	21	25
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	2	1
Unbeaten streak	23	4
Winless streak	2	1
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

No statistics here yet

Goals

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Betting aid

No statistics here yet

Bookings

No statistics here yet

Key players

No statistics here yet

Historical head to head

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

1 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

1 ga

Historical head to head

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

4 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

4 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	July 13, 1988
Away	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

July 13, 1988 - Rencontres amicales 1988

Brazil

4 - 1

Saudi Arabia logo Saudi Arabia

Best historical scorers against Saudi Arabia

Geovani	2 goals	1988 - 1988
Edmar	1 goal	1988 - 1988
Jorginho	1 goal	1988 - 1988

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/07/1988. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Brazil

Majed Abdullah Mohammed

1 goal

1988 - 1988

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/07/1988. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Saudi Arabia

Edmar	1 match	1988 - 1988
Cláudio Taffarel	1 match	1988 - 1988
Luís Carlos Winck	1 match	1988 - 1988
Ricardo Gomes	1 match	1988 - 1988
Ademir	1 match	1988 - 1988
Geovani	1 match	1988 - 1988