Brazil to face Portugal in February

Written by Joe Kent , 04.01 13h22

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Brazil’s first fixture of the year will be a friendly against Portugal, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) revealed on its website today (Thursday).

In a short statement the CBF commented, “In the first friendly of 2007 Brazil will face Portugal on February 7th. The location of the game - possibly London - has yet to be confirmed.” The most likely venue for the match is Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium where Brazil beat Argentina 3-0 in September.

The last time the two sides met was in April 2003 when Portugal beat Brazil 2-1 . Luiz Felipe Scolari had already taken charge of Portugal but this will be Dunga’s first game against the Portuguese - he will be keen to extend his five match unbeaten run since becoming coach after the World Cup.

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