Supporters back home left stunned as Seleçao’s bid for a sixth world title ends in penalty shootout defeat to Croatia

It’s not been a good few weeks for Brazilians in yellow football shirts.

Six weeks ago, nationalist supporters of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had to swallow a painful defeat as his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a bitter presidential election.

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