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Stars selected for Brazil

6 July 2012-PA Sport

Neymar

Star quality ... Neymar is just one of the stars selected in Brazil's Olympic Games football team (Getty)

Brazil has selected Hulk, Neymar and Alexandre Pato as well as Manchester United defender Rafael and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Sandro in a strong squad for London 2012.

Porto's Hulk, Pato of AC Milan, and Real Madrid's Marcelo are the three over-age players in the team.

Santos striker Neymar, whose club future has been the subject of almost constant speculation, has scored nine goals in 18 games for the senior team, while AC Milan's Pato and Porto's Hulk have also impressed for the senior side.

Brazil is aiming to win its first Olympic football title and has been drawn in Group C along with Egypt, Belarus and New Zealand.

It plays a warm-up friendly against Stuart Pearce's Team GB side at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium on July 20.

Brazil squad: Rafael Cabral (Santos), Neto (Fiorentina); Alex Sandro (Porto), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Rafael (Manchester United), Danilo (Porto), Thiago Silva (AC Milan), Bruno Uvini (Sao Paulo), Juan (Inter Milan); Sandro (Tottenham), Romulo (Spartak Moscow), Paulo Henrique Ganso (Santos), Oscar (Internacional), Lucas Moura (Sao Paulo); Neymar (Santos), Leandro Damiao (International), Alexandre Pato (AC Milan), Hulk (Porto).

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