The president of BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silvacriticized this Thursday on a local television channel the appointment of the Italian Carlo Ancelotti at the helm of the Brazilian team from 2024. “I appreciate Ancelotti, but he was never Italy’s coach. Why doesn’t he solve the problem of Italy, who did not participate in the last World Cup?” he asked himself during an interview on Thursday night with the SBT channel.
The technician of real Madrid He was chosen this Tuesday to take charge of the ‘Seleçao’ of the Copa América 2024, from June 20 to July 14, a source from the Brazilian Football Confederation told AFP. Until then, it is Fernando Diniz, the coach of Fluminense, the Brazilian D1 club, who will be on the ‘Auriverde’ bench.
“I am a fan of Diniz (…) He has personality, creativity and he is the one in charge in the locker room,” said Lula. In fact, despite a more than brilliant career in Europe, Carlo Ancelotti has never managed a national team. “It is very easy to lead a team in Europe with eleven international players. The difficult thing is to come here and lead Corinthians (at the gates of the relegation zone). I would like to see if Ancelotti would do well in this case,” said the president. leftist.
Lula does not see a squad of the quality of the ones from before
Diniz, 49, will start on the Brazilian bench in September, in the 2026 World Cup qualifier, with matches against Bolivia and Peru. Lula, however, doubts that he can “put together a good team.” According to him, Brazil does not have a ‘very good’ generation of players at the moment.
In fact, the ‘Seleçao’ is fighting to recover its past glory, its last world title dates back to 2002. “The problem is not Diniz, the problem is that today we don’t have the quality of players that we had in other times,” he lamented.
In Qatar, during the last World Cup, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Croatian on penalties. And the competition was won by its archrival Argentina.
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