Brazil press decry World Cup 'Shame of Shames'

Brazil's national media quickly dubbed the football team's 7-1 defeat to Germany the "Shame of Shames" and the most humiliating defeat in the squad's history.
Brazil's humiliating exit from the World Cup is as close as it gets to a national trauma in a football-mad nation whose identity is closely associated with its team.
The country of 200 million people had hoped to win the title at home and erase memories of its 1950 World Cup defeat to Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro, the notorious "Maracanazo" at the Maracana Stadium.
But instead Brazil suffered the worst defeat in its 100-year footballing history, falling 7-1 to Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in the southeastern city here -- now the infamous "Mineirazo."

Newspapers and TV commentators called the defeat the "Mineirazo," an allusion to the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte and Brazil's traumatic Word Cup defeat at home in 1950 known as the "Maracanazo."
But other analysts said the Mineirazo could not compare to the Maracanazo.

"In 1950 we felt we had an unbeatable team and losing at the Maracana was unthinkable," Michel Castellar, an analyst at the sports daily Lance, told AFP.
"This time, we knew that we had a team with a lot of flaws and that maybe they would not reach the final. Was it a national humiliation? Yes, because of the number of goals. But it wasn't a new Maracanazo," he said.

"It looked like a game between adults and children," wrote the prominent sports analyst Juca Kfouri on his blog. "Brazilian football has never experienced such humiliation."
The country's newspapers called it the biggest disgrace in the team's history, with globoesporte.Com dubbing it the "Shame of Shames."
The sport's daily Lance called last night's crushing loss "The Biggest Shame in History."
"The Maracanazo becomes nothing and literally a thing of the past," the newspaper said on its website.
The top of Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper's website was titled "Historic Shame" after Brazil suffered its worst defeat in the national team's 100-year history.

"Brazil is humiliated again trying to win the cup at home," the daily said.
The G1 news website quoted Brazilian manager Luiz Felipe Scolari saying "catastrophic result".