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Ex-Arsenal captain and 1998 World Cup winner with hosts France Patrick Vieria said this year's hosts Brazil are under 'massive pressure' at the World Cup. The Seleção play Croatia in São Paulo's Arena Corinthians on Thursday (KO 21:00 BST) before taking on Mexico and Cameroon.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Vieira, World Cup winner with France in 1998 (on the pressure of playing at a home World Cup):

"It is a massive pressure, a massive pressure for the Brazilian team because when you play in the World Cup at home there's massive expectation. For two years you've been playing friendly games, for two years you don't deal with the pressure and the fact you have to win. Because for the last two years you really focus on how you can improve technically, tactically, how you can make the team better with no pressure. But now there is real pressure. And they will have to perform."