The South American team started their title defense with a lackluster show in Group B, played this Monday in Bloemfontein (Free State Stadium) South Africa.

Kaka, scored two of the four goals that Brazil scored, The first one in the 5th minute of the match and the second one in the 90th minute, rescue his team from an Egyptian team that was eager to play, and it showed by the Egyptians tying the score within 2 minutes apart (54 and 55), it look like the Brazilian went into a rested mode after the score was 3-1 in favor of the Samba team.

In the first half after Kaka score the first goal, and scores from Luis Fabiano (12) and Juan (37) it seem that Brazil was ready to bombard the Egyptians and follow their the streak of excellent soccer, with wins that had come against Uruguay (4-0) and Paraguay (2-1), putting them on top of the South America World Cup qualifiers standings.

However Egypt responded very quickly with their first goal at the 9th minute of the game by Mohamed Zidan, turning the score even 1-1, that would carry the Egyptians with some type of momentum into the second half, as they scored in the (54) by Mohamed Shawky and again Zidan (55), the star of the game with two goals.

At last the victory would come by a hand check on the ball courtesy of Ahmed Al Muhamadi, with a shot sent by Lucio, which brought the Egyptian expulsion and the penalty shot made by kaka, making the final score 4-3.