2023-07-04
The Italian coach Carlos Ancelotti will take over as coach of the Brazilian team from the 2024 Copa América, sources from the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) confirmed on Tuesday.
He is expected to make his debut in charge of the five-time champions in the Copa América in the United States (June 20-July 14, 2024), once his current contract with Real Madrid expires, a senior CBF source told AFP. , who preferred not to be cited.
Until then, the Brazilian Fernando Diniz, current coach of Fluminense from Rio de Janeiro, will lead Brazil on FIFA dates, as officially announced on Tuesday by the entity.
Diniz, 49, will lead the Brazilians in their debut in the South American qualifier for the World Cup between the United States, Mexico and Canada-2026, against Bolivia and Peru in September.
“He is a coach whose proposal is similar to that of the coach who will take over from the Copa America, Ancelotti,” said the president of the CBF, Ednaldo Rodrigues, according to statements released by the sports portals UOL and Globo Esporte.
The signing of Ancelotti is a bet by the CBF to try to put an end to more than two decades without winning the highest football trophy, the last one in South Korea and Japan-2002.
The Italian will guide the ‘Canarinha’ on the road to the 2026 World Cup, where the five-time champions will seek to win the elusive sixth world title.
The loss in the quarterfinals against Croatia in Qatar-2022, where the ‘Seleção’ arrived as a favourite, was the team’s last setback after Tite (2016-2023).
The world power of football has suffered humiliations in recent years, such as the historic 7-1 win against Germany in the semifinals of the World Cup that it organized in 2014, and saw its arch-rival, Argentina, crowned champion in the Arab country.
The string of setbacks and controversies by some of its stars, such as Neymar, has distanced Brazilians from their national team in recent years.
– The best in the world –
With the idea of reconciling the people with the team, the president of the CBF was convinced to sign a coach whose figure did not admit debate.
“We want a coach who doesn’t get scared by pressure, who knows what it’s like to lead a team like Brazil, who plays beautiful football, but who also understands that you have to win,” Rodrigues told the Spanish newspaper Marca in March. .
Although it is his first experience as a national team coach (he was assistant to Arrigo Sacchi in Italy that lost the 1994 World Cup final against Brazil), the background of ‘Il Mister’ is indisputable.
“He’s the best coach in the world,” said Vinicius Jr, whom Ancelotti honed at Madrid into one of today’s great footballers.
The 22-year-old winger is called to lead the new generation of Brazilian soccer players, especially given the uncertainty about the international continuity of 31-year-old Neymar.
After the failure in Qatar, the ’10’ from PSG, whose career has been hampered by injuries and controversy, again questioned his future with the ‘Canarinha’.
– An unwritten law –
The excellent management of Ancelotti’s group can be a powerful weapon to seduce ‘Ney’ and make Brazil shine again.
“He has that ability to manage players, to make everyone happy and to converge the different interests in the same direction,” said Kaká, whom he managed at AC Milan and saw him win the Ballon d’Or in 2007, the last lifted by a Brazilian.
The arrival of Ancelotti, in Brazil’s sights since before the Qatari competition, breaks an unwritten law: that a local must be on the bench of the ‘Seleção’. ‘Carletto’ will be the fourth foreigner in command of the cast that Pelé immortalized and the first in 58 years.
The other foreigners had fleeting steps. The last one had been the Argentine Filpo Núñez, for the time coach of Palmeiras, on September 7, 1965.
The Brazilian Sports Confederation, predecessor of the CBF, paid ‘Verdão’ for Núñez and his team to represent the team in a friendly against Uruguay (3-0 for ‘Canarinha’).
Since then and until the Copa América in 2024, only Portuguese has been spoken in the Brazilian coach’s office.
2023-07-05 02:35:00
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