Last Tuesday in Nantes, Dunga tongue-lashed the striker for giving the ball away in mid-field. At one moment it looked as if the two were going to come to blows until Leonardo rushed in to separate them.

His public humiliation of one of the heroes of Brazil's 1994 World Cup winning team angered several of the players.

One of them accused Dunga of picking on Bebeto because he was one of the smallest members of the squad.

``He would not have gone at Junior Biano because of his size or Edmundo because of his reputation,'' he claimed. But Roberto Carlos says the bad feeling caused within the team because of Dunga's action, were settled privately during a clear-the-air meeting.