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 Trinidad and Tobago's Under-23 footballers were beaten 7-0 by Brazil's Olympic team before an estimated crowd of 40,000 fans at Orlando Scarpelli Stadium Wednesday night.

Skipper Travis Mulraine and his teammates suffered an early blow when defender Derek King was sent off in the 8th minute for a vicious tackle on striker Ronaldinho. From the resulting free-kick, Alvaro sent the home team in the lead. Ronaldinho made it 2-0 for the Samba boys in the 20th minute from the penalty spot and two minutes later the same striker fed teammate Alex, who dribbled goalkeeper Kelvin Jack to score the third.

Mozart increased the scoreline to 4-0 in the 32nd minute and the T&T boys were lucky not to have fell further behind before half-time as two goals were ruled offside and another two attempts were cleared on the line. Ronaldinho converted a second penalty in the 60th minute and Mozart and Adriano added their names to the scoresheet in the 79th and 80th minutes respectively.

T&T are scheduled to face Guatemala, Canada and the Netherlands Antilles in a Sydney Olympics semifinal qualifying tournament here in March. The locals are due to return home today to prepare for two warm-up matches against Denmark's Under-23 team at the Concacaf Centre of Excellence, Macoya, next Wednesday and Friday.

Brazil, who also defeated the United States by a similar scoreline last year, are preparing for an Olympic qualifier against Chile January 19.

TEAMS

Brazil: Sílvio Luiz de Oliveira de Paula, Alessandro Mancini (Séverino Lucas 67), Fábio Bilica (Cristiano Gomes 84), Alvaro, Rodrigues Fábio Aurélio (Athirson Mazoli de Oliveira 67), Dermival de Almeida Lima, Santos Batista Junior, Fabiano Pereira da Costa, Alexsandro de Souza (Luis Eduardo Schmitt 67), Ronaldinho de Assis Moreira (Warley Silva dos Santos 67), Fábio Júnior Pereira (Carlos Adriano de Souza Vieira 22).

Trinidad and Tobago: Kelvin Jack, Derek King, Marlon Rojas, Atiba Charles (Anton Pierre 36), Brent Sancho, Keyeno Thomas, Travis Mulraine, Kerwin Jemmott (Jason Scotland 73), Brent Rahim, Carlos Edwards (Hector Sam 84), Nigel Pierre (Gomez 64) (Obrien 73).

Goalscorers: Alvaro 9th, Ronaldinho 20th, 61st, Alex 23rd, Mozart 32nd, Lucas 79th, Adriano Gabiru 80th.

Venue: Estadio Orlando Scarpelli, Florianopolis (Brazil)

Trainer: Luxemburgo

Brazil team line-up "alias names" (real names above):

Sílvio Luiz
Mancini (Lucas 67)
Fábio Bilica (Cris 84)
Alvaro
Fábio Aurélio  (Athirson 67)
Baiano
Mozart
Fabiano
Alex (Edu 67)
Ronaldinho (Warley 67)
Fábio Júnior (Adriano Gabiru 22)