The Brazil national team of football (Portuguese: Selecao Brasileira de Futebol) known as Selecao Canarinho is a representative of Brazil in international football for men and is managed through the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) which is the governing body of the sport of football in Brazil. The team has been a part of FIFA since 1923, and an official part of CONMEBOL from 1916.
Brazil is one of the countries that has had the greatest success team at the FIFA World Cup, being winners five times from 1958, 1962 and 1970 1994, and 2002. The Selecao also boasts the highest overall performance during this World Cup competition, both in terms of absolute and proportional and with seven victories over 109 games played, 124 goal differential 237 points, and 18 defeats. The Selecao is the only team in the world that has played throughout every World Cup editions without any shortage or need for playoffs and is the only team in the world who have been able to win this World Cup on four different continents one time at the time in Europe (1958 Sweden), twice on South America (1962 Chile) three times across North America (1970 Mexico and 1994 United States), and one time at the bottom of Asia (2002 Japan/Korea). Brazil was also the top-performing team from the now defunct FIFA Confederations Cup, winning the tournament four times: 2005, 1997 2009, 1997 and 2013.
Regarding ranking standings, Brazil fared well, having been the top Elo ranking throughout the decade from 1960 until 2020, and had the top standard football Elo rating score in all nations, and with the fourth highest all-time peak score in football Elo Rating, set in 1962. The ranking system of FIFA is that Brazil has the distinction of having the the most Team of the Year first ranking wins with twelve. Numerous experts, commentators as well as former athletes have deemed the Brazil team in 1970 to be the best football team of all time. The other Brazilian teams are also highly regarded and frequently appear in lists of the top teams ever including the Brazil teams from 1958-62 as well as the Brazilian teams from the 1990s and the 2000s, as well as honorary mentions for the talented 1982 team. In 1996 the Brazilian national football team won 35 consecutive games without losing this feat was were able to record as the world record for over 25 years.
Brazil has many adversaries because of its achievements that include significant rivalries with Argentina, known in"the Superclassico das Americas in Portuguese Italy--known in Italy as Classico Mundial in Portuguese or the World Derby in English, Uruguay because of the tragic Maracanazo, France due to the fact that they typically face difficulties when playing France during World Cups, the Netherlands because of the numerous important matches between teams at World Cups, and the manner of play of both teams is considered to be similar. Portugal due to the fact that they share a common language, Portugal due to the shared traditions and cultural characteristics and the high number of Brazilian-born athletes in Portugal.
