Brazil national under-23 football team previously won three silver medals (1984, 1988 and 2012) and two bronze medals (1996, 2008). The Brazilian Olympic team is often coached by the in-charge senior team coach, such as Mário Zagallo in 1996, Vanderlei Luxemburgo in 2000, Dunga in 2008 and Mano Menezes in 2012. Brazil's first participation in the Olympics was in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. In that year, Brazil reached the quarter-finals, when they were eliminated by West Germany 4–2. In 1960, in Rome, Italy, in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan, in 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico, and in 1972 in Berlin, West Germany, Brazil was eliminated in
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