RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's humiliating 7-1 defeat by Germany has left a deep scar on the World Cup hosts and highlighted the need for a football shake-up in the country, but it was not on the same scale as the "national tragedy" of losing the 1950 final, Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said on Thursday.
"It has a left a terrible blemish, a deep scar, it was a disaster," Rebelo told journalists at FIFA's daily briefing at the Maracana, where Brazil had hoped to be competing in Sunday's final.
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