Brazil. Five FIFA World Cup titles. Two Golden Ball winners.

That is the kind of team France will be facing this Saturday at the 2006 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals this Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany.

French striker, Thierry Henry, is saying he will ignore all these mumbo jumbo Brazil brings along every single time it graces the football field. Well, for the sake of France, let’s hope Henry can.

‘’If you go on the pitch with that on your mind, then there is no reason to go on the pitch,’’ Thierry Henry said.

He adds, ‘’We are going to go there with the right spirit.’’

Yeah, RIIIGHT…

France will be a decided underdog in Frankfurt when it goes up against former three-time FIFA Player of the Year Ronaldo, a former Golden Ball winner, and the reigning two-time FIFA winner Ronaldinho, the current Golden Ball holder.

However, France has won two of the three meetings against Brazil at the World Cup including a 3-0 victory in the 1998 final, and in a penalty shootout in the 1986 quarter-finals when Luis Fernandez converted France’s winner after Michel Platini shot over the crossbar.

Brazil knows that France will be their toughest test yet.

‘’This will be our hardest match at the World Cup,’’ said Brazil midfielder Juninho, who has scored with 29 free-kicks for Lyon - impressive even by Brazilian standards.

‘’They play excellent football and are a good team who are dangerous, and they stick together as a unit and fight together,’’ Juninho adds.

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