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The Brazil men's national field hockey team (Seleção Brasileira de Hóquei sobre a Grama Masculino) represents Brazil in international men's field hockey and is directed by the Brazilian Confederation of Hockey on Grass and Indoor (Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira de Hóquei sobre a Grama e Indoor). The team has never qualified for the Olympic Games or the Hockey World Cup. They came tenth and seventh in the 2004 and 2009 Pan American Cup, respectively. The team managed fourth place finish on two consecutive occasions at the South American Championships in 2008 and 2010. As of February 2013, Brazil is ranked thirty-third in the FIH Men's World Rankings with 205 points.

History
The game of hockey expanded to Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s. It became popular at club level in Brazil and its southern neighbour Argentina.

Football is the most popular sport of Brazil.

The country has only fourteen hockey clubs and approximately 3,500 players, of whom only 500 play at the national level. The game is concentrated largely in the southern cities&mdash; Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre.