Carlo Ancelotti is gradually being presented to the reality of Brazilian football. There is still the honeymoon atmosphere of a recent marriage, protected in a core surrounded by excellence and facilities. But it begins to try something beyond the glamor bubble in which they orbit the selectionthe CBF and the players who play in Europe. With each round of Brasileirão he watches, the Italian realizes that the machine that produced a five -time world champion does not rotate as well as it could seem at a distance.
At the conference of this Wednesday, the eve of the penultimate confrontation of the qualifiers with Chile, in Maracanã, Ancelotti was caused to evaluate Brazilian football beyond the privileged cut of the national team. Educated and intelligent, he measured the words, preferring to highlight virtues before pointing out weaknesses.
He highlighted the unique bond between fans and club, present in each capital where he went to his observations. “Brazil is a country that lives football with passion,” he said, in an obviousness that no longer sounds that obvious. He also praised the organization of the CBF and the level of national competitions, fulfilling the diplomatic ritual of who knows that the chair it occupies requires political tact.
The best players are abroad
But the frankness, although packed in courtesy, also appeared. The coach acknowledged that the technical quality of the games he followed could be better. And risked an explanation. “Most of the good players play abroad and that weighs. Brazil has a lot of good players out there. We believe we have 70 players who may be in the World Cup. ” Between the lines, it made it clear what everyone knows: the talent exodus for Europe charges its price on the left out for the fan to consume here.
This is where the importance of an Ancelotti size technician lies. The technical emptying of national football cannot only be read as a natural race behind larger wages and more stable contracts in other markets. It also stems from the perverse logic that closed the team doors to players who remain in the country. Not by chance, the rush to depart often precedes professional maturity – and so many young people end up misleading, exchanging minutes on the field in Brazil for uncertain bets abroad.
Missing a team
Ancelotti, with its weight and history, has the opportunity to reverse this flow. It can signal that playing in Brazil does not mean disappearing from the radar of the national team. This simple but great impact gesture would help to value local labor, prolong the permanence of talent in national clubs and, in the end, strengthen the very team he commands.
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Brazil will remain an inexhaustible source of players. What is missing is to turn this potential into a career plan, a collective project that allows fewer talent to get lost along the way. And if there is someone able to make Brazilian football evolve beyond the accounting of the national team, it is the same coach who once reinvented Milan, Real Madrid and so many other giants. Now, in the face of the largest stars on the planet, Carlo Ancelotti’s challenge may be even greater.
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