Thiago Silva back in Brazil's good graces

Fernando Duarte ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- When Brazil manager Tite announced he would be using more than one captain during Russia 2018, as a way (in his words) to share leadership responsibilities around the squad, it was an incredible exercise of the imagination to assume Thiago Silva would get a go. That is not to say that Tite's choice to wear the armband in Friday's game against Costa Rica did not cause a certain frisson. Four years after becoming a symbol of Brazil's mental implosion at th