Parreira achieved an admirable balance between attack and defence because the back line were so well protected by the central midfielders Dunga and Mauro Silva.

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They all placed two "guard dogs" to scare off the opposing strikers, but very few had the ability on the ball of Dunga and Mauro Silva.

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Though if he finds that South Africa have good attacking full-backs, he is likely to pull a central midfielder very deep into a holding role, as he did with Mauro Silva in 1994.

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