Football | Posted on Jun 21, 2010 at 05:11pm IST

Dunga now sees Brazil with maturity

Associated Press

Johannesburg: Dunga is taking a lot of positives from how Brazil handled adversities in its convincing win over Ivory Coast, saying the team has become stronger for the second round of the World Cup.

Brazil played well to defeat Ivory Coast 3-1 on Sunday and advance to the last 16 with one match to spare in Group G, but the Ivorians played a physical match that could've created difficulties to the Brazilians.

Dunga says "the players have passed a tough test. They showed a lot of maturity because they got hit from the beginning to the end and never hit back."

Dunga now sees Brazil with maturity
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The Ivorians played with intensity, coming in hard into every ball dispute and posing a challenge the Brazilians are not used to facing.

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