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Cafu was thrown out of the Brazil dressing room in the wake of the 7-1 defeat to Germany on Tuesday.

The 2002 World Cup-winning captain was consoling the players, only to be expelled by the president of Brazil’s football federation.

“José Maria Marin said he didn’t want any strange people in the dressing room,” Cafu revealed.

“I told him that I wasn’t a “strange person”, that I was just there to give the boys a hug and comfort them.

“To my surprise, I was practically thrown out.”

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