Brazil national under-23 football team was beaten by Mexico 0–1 after extra time, denying Brazil the chance to be the first guest team to win the tournament. The following year Brazil failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games after losing out to Paraguay and Argentina in the qualifying tournament. Brazil, managed by senior team coach, Dunga, finished in the first position in the group stage, ahead of Belgium, New Zealand and China, which they beat 1–0, 5–0 and 3–0 respectively. In the second round, Brazil beat Cameroon 2–0 after extra time. Brazil and Argentina met on August 19 in the semi-final game of the
Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics at tournament start, regardless of age. The football tournament was held in four venues: The Gold Medal game between France and Brazil,with players mostly from a club team, Internacional of Porto Alegre, who gave up his starting team to CBF (totaling 11 of the 17 players called), reinforced by Gilmar Popoca, then Flamengo , who was voted the best player in the competition. reached the final by surviving a penalty kick shoot-out with Canada, 4-2, after playing to a 1-1 draw: at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games football attendance record of 101,799. Until 2014 this remained the record