Coach Ancelotti shakes up Brazilian football

It is one of the most remarkable appointments in the history of national teams. The president of the Brazilian Football Confederation said: 'Carlo Ancelotti is the greatest coach in history. Now he begins to lead the greatest national team on the planet'.

TOO ATTRACTIVE COMBINATION

The season is not over yet, and the race for the La Liga title has not yet officially ended (in theory, Ancelotti's Real Madrid still have a chance to win the title). Yet, Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) President Ednaldo Rodrigues could not contain his excitement when he announced the confirmation of "a new glorious chapter for Brazilian football".

Coach Ancelotti will help Brazilian football regain glory

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Ancelotti will leave Real after the end of the season. Leading Real in the FIFA Club World Cup this summer will be new coach Xabi Alonso. And the CBF's "Ancelotti project" will begin on May 26, just one day after the final round of La Liga. ESPN headlined: "If there is anyone capable of leading Brazil to the 2026 World Cup, it can only be Ancelotti."

Actually, this is not a surprise event. The CBF's "Ancelotti project" has been discussed many times, for at least 3 years now. For many reasons, in the end, Mr. Ancelotti continued to coach Real, instead of moving to lead the Brazilian team as planned. But this is indeed an event that "shakes up Brazilian football", as the BBC commented. Finally, the endless debate in the land of football about whether to hand over the Selecao to a foreign coach has come to an end. The CBF happily handed over the Selecao to the veteran Italian coach. On the other hand, Coach Ancelotti also has nothing left to be attached to Real, after a season that was considered empty-handed.

In fact, the Brazilian national team has had 3 foreign coaches: Ramon Platero (Uruguay) in 1925, Joreca (Portugal) in 1944 and Filpo Nunez (Argentina) in 1965. But those were only short-term appointments. They only led the Brazilian team for a total of 7 matches. In fact, Ancelotti will be the first foreign coach to lead the Brazilian national team consistently. This is certainly a historic milestone for the famous samba football.

You have to understand them to win against them.

Not only the national team, but also the Brazilian national championship has almost no foreign coaches. The general thinking is: only Brazilian coaches can understand Brazilian players. That is a very strong feature of Brazilian football culture.

This trait began to waver in 2019 when Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus took charge of Flamengo. He arrived amid skepticism and departed in the throes of glory. Flamengo won 43 of 57 games, winning the Brazilian championship and the Copa Libertadores. It was Flamengo's most successful season ever. "A whole wall of prejudice has been torn down," wrote renowned Brazilian football writer Tim Vickery. Foreign coaches are becoming more common in the Brazilian national championship. Now, the Brazilian national team also has a foreign coach.

The aforementioned coach Jesus is an important candidate when Brazil starts looking for a foreign coach, but surely Ancelotti's name is bigger than all.

Instead of thinking "Only Brazilian coaches understand Brazilian players", now the opposite way of thinking is: "Only European coaches understand European football". And of course, you have to understand them to beat them. Since the 2002 championship, Brazil has always been eliminated from the World Cup as soon as they faced their first European opponent in the knockout stage. In turn, it was France, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Croatia. Having been eliminated and still allowed to play, Brazil still lost to European opponents (losing 1-7 to Germany at the 2014 World Cup right at home, then losing 0-3 to the Netherlands in the third-place match).

Who understands European football better than Ancelotti - the only coach in the world who has won national championships in all 5 great countries: Italy, England, France, Spain, Germany! On the contrary, which European understands Brazilian players better than Ancelotti? He has led Kaka, Thiago Silva, Cafu, Marcelo, Casemiro, Eder Militao, Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo, Endrick... It was Ancelotti who transformed Kaka, Vinicius, Cafu to make them leap to the highest level in their careers. Only Ancelotti can infuse the efficiency and certainty of European football into the "samba dance" of Brazilian football!

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