RIO DE JANEIRO air jordan 11 concord 2018 , June 10 (Xinhua) -- Victory for Brazil in their World Cup opener against Croatia on Thursday is vital to the team's chances of wining football's most coveted trophy for a sixth time, according to Selecao boss Luiz Felipe Scolari.


The 65-year-old warned his players could ill afford to trip in the Group A clash at Sao Paulo's Itaquerao stadium due to the resultant pressure in later matches.


""We need to win the first match to allow us to possibly slip-up in the second or third and still progress (to the knockout phase). Our tactical work has come a long way. There is little more to do before the first match.""


For Brazil, Thursday's clash will be followed by fixtures against Mexico on June 17 and Cameroon six days later.


Having slipped to 22nd in the FIFA world rankings in June last year, the Selecao are now third following 15 victories from their past 16 matches.


Included in that run was last year's Confederations Cup triumph, sealed with a 3-0 demolition of world and European champions Spain in the final.


But Scolari refused to bask in past glories as he underlined the importance of a positive start in Sao Paulo.


""What worries me is Croatia jordan 11 concord 2018 ,"" Scolari said. ""It's important that we start the match well and pressure the opposition from the outset.


""When we score early it seems that everything falls into place. It makes the opponent change their strategy and often lose their way.""

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Belgian police arrested six people in their probe of Tuesday's Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there ""that was at an advanced stage.""


The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium said on Thursday that the arrests came during police searches in the Brussels neighbourhoods of Schaerbeek in the north and Jette in the west, as well as in the centre of the Belgian capital.


The arrests came days after suicide bombers hit the Brussels airport and a metro train, killing at least 31 people and wounding some 270 in the worst such attack in Belgian history.


The attack in Brussels, which is home to the European Union and NATO jordan 11 concord for sale , has heightened security concerns around the world and raised questions about European countries' response to the threat from Islamist extremists.


The Islamic State militant group, which claimed responsibility for the Brussels bombings, also took credit for coordinated attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people at cafes, a sports stadium and concert hall.


In Paris on Thursday, authorities arrested a French national suspected of belonging to a militant network planning an attack in France.


French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a televised address that the arrest helped ""foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage.""


Cazeneuve added that the man arrested ""is suspected of high-level involvement in this plan. He was part of a terrorist network that planned to strike France.""


After the arrest by the French counter terrorism service jordan 11 concord pre order , DGSI, the agency raided an apartment building on Thursday night in the northern Paris suburb of Argenteuil. French TV station ITele reported that explosives had been found in the man's house.


""At this stage, there is no tangible evidence that links this plot to the attacks in Paris and