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		</div><p>Veteran defender Dani Alves will become Brazil’s oldest World Cup captain in their final group game against Cameroon on Friday.</p>
<p>The 39-year-old former Barcelona full-back was controversially included in head coach Tite’s squad for Qatar 2022 amid reports it was to act as a minder for close friend Neymar.</p>
<p>Alves, who now plays in Mexico for UNAM Pumas, will wear the skipper’s armband as Tite prepares to make changes, with top spot in Group G guaranteed if they avoid defeat against Cameroon.</p>
<figure id="attachment_176659" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-176659" style="width: 781px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-176659" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/5D32A569-8C00-4175-BA4F-D741471D65F1.jpeg" alt="" width="781" height="525" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-176659" class="wp-caption-text">Casemiro’s solitary goal in Brazil’s 1-0 win against Switzerland guaranteed his nation a place in the last 16</figcaption></figure>
<p>Alves, who has recovered from a knee injury to compete at his third World Cup finals, said: “For me it represents the fact that I can wear the Brazil jersey. It makes me very proud to be here.</p>
<p>“I’ve been with the Brazilian squad for many years and to be able to wrap up this cycle, playing a World Cup, makes me very happy.</p>
<p>“It’s been 16 years with the national squad and I’ve tried to do my very best. Life, I think, always rewards the people who love what they do, who truly do their best in the mission.</p>
<p>“I think I’m reaping what I have planted over those 16 years.”</p>
<p>Tite, expected to choose either Juventus’ Danilo or Real Madrid’s Eder Militao ahead of Alves at right-back in the tournament’s latter stages, insisted he was not yet focused on a last-16 clash with either Ghana, Portugal or South Korea.</p>
<p>“We have 26 great players and I do not have time to be focusing on the broader picture,” Tite said.</p>
<p>“We are busy working, preparing our players. I have a little time to have dinner with my family after matches and the work goes on.</p>
<p>“We are fully focused on preparing for the next match. We have a clear objective.</p>
<p>“We have played two matches with two different teams and now we play the third match with a completely different team.</p>
<p>“We’ll make a few changes, we’ll include keys players. In two games we used 19 players. We do not call them starting players or reserves. They are all players.”</p>
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