The pressure was on Brazil, and Rivaldo especially. Despite their dominance in the World Cup and Copa America, the Olympics was the one major international honour which had, up until that point, eluded the Samba Boys. In the summer of 1996, Rivaldo Vítor Barbosa Ferreira was public enemy number one in Brazil after a disastrous Olympics.īrazil made no bones about the fact they were going for gold in Atlanta.
