Brazilian Football Confederation

On a night in which Brazil wore an all-black strip to protest racism in football, Vinicius Junior was on the score sheet and in the spotlight in a 4-1 international friendly win over Guinea.

In a moving gesture, Brazil football icon Ronaldinho has offered to come out of retirement to play for Chapecoense as the club struggles to rebuild in the wake of the tragic plane crash in Colombia on Monday that killed the majority of its team and coaches.

Neymar battled back tears as he urged his Brazil team-mates to win the World Cup without him after suffering a fractured vertebrae in the quarter-final win over Colombia.