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The match no one wants to miss

AFP, Dublin
The Republic of Ireland's preparations for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers will move up a gear when they welcome world champions Brazil to Lansdowne Road for what is already a 44,000 sell-out match.
It may only be friendly but the allure of seeing the likes of Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos and Juninho, has proved hard to resist for the Irish footballing public.
Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, whose team were due to fly in to Dublin on Monday, has paid Ireland the compliment of picking a strong squad with the fact that so many of his leading players are at European clubs a help rather than a hindrance in this case.
Meanwhile his Ireland counterpart Brian Kerr has called on home fans not to let themselves be so dazzled by the Brazilian
superstars on display that they forget to give the hosts their usual passionate backing at Lansdowne Road.
"I hope the fans give us a lot of support. Don't just come to admire them (Brazil) and respect them. That can be done after the game... It will be a special night, let's have an atmosphere for the game."
Remarkably, given their countries' respective football records, the only previous occasion that five-time world champions Brazil were in Dublin, in 1987, they lost 1-0 with Liam Brady scoring the decisive goal.
A similar scoreline on Wednesday, even in a friendly, would make the rest of the football world sit up and take notice and make it 2-2 in matches between the nations.
But whatever the final result both managers will have other targets in mind as well.
For Parreira it is a chance to assess players' form in the middle of their bid to emerge with one of the five coveted places from the
South America World Cup qualifying section - the reigning champions no longer qualify automatically.
Meanwhile Kerr will have a better idea after this match how his players cope with the ordeal of facing a top-class side.
"To play against Brazil is a boyhood dream for everybody so we're all really looking forward to it," said the Republic's forward Kevin Kilbane.
"We're expecting a good game, a good atmosphere. They've got tremendously talented players and it will hopefully be a good spectacle for everybody to watch, " the Everton winger added.
If Jason McAteer takes the field on Wednesday, then the match will have added significance for the midfielder.
McAteer, of First Division Sunderland, has not played for the Republic since a 4-2 European Championship qualifying defeat against Russia in Moscow in September 2002.
Instead a combination of hernia, groin and hamstring injuries have seen the 32-year-old miss all 11 matches since Kerr replaced Mick McCarthy in January last year.
"It's great to be back," said McAteer. "I know I'll be 34 for the next World Cup but so long as I am fit and so long as Jason McAteer is feeling okay, I'd love to be involved.”
Looking ahead to Brazil, McAteer joked: "I am sure Roberto Carlos is really worried about facing me."
Both sides have had injury problems in the run-up to this match with injured Brazil midfielder Emerson, now at Italian side Roma, replaced by Sporting Lisbon's Fabio Rochemback.
Meanwhile Ireland are without Damien Duff, the Chelsea winger sidelined by a hamstring injury while reserve keeper Joe Murphy is out with a back problem, his place taken by Arsenal's Graham Stack.