Brazil's Alisson tabbed to be first-choice at World Cup by coaches

After humiliation on home soil for Brazil in 2014, Ian Darke and ESPN's expert panel feel redemption could be in the cards for Neymar and company. TERESOPOLIS, Brazil -- Brazil's goalkeeping coaches have no hesitation in anointing Alisson as the team's No. 1 for the World Cup and are even comparing him to Germany's Manuel Neuer. Goalkeeping coach Claudio Taffarel, who played three World Cups for Brazil and won the trophy in 1994, said Alisson has developed "amazingly" at Roma this past season and deserves to start in Russia even though it will be he his first tournament. "Until recently we talked a lot about Neuer [as the best in the world]....

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