“An unprecedented shame”: Brazil’s Sub-20 team will not find backwater at home, the press As a buff is scandalized with historical degradation suffered In the World Cup in the category in Chile, from which the Pentacampeona was first eliminated in the group stage.
The reaction to embarrassment was also fulminating within the Brazilian soccer confederation (CBF), which dismissed coach Ramón Menezes A day after the game of the contest, after remaining in office since 2022.
The ‘Canarinha’ remained Last group Cthe most complex in the World Cup, after suffering two losses against Morocco (1-2) and its executioner Spain (1-0) and getting just a point of nine possible with the draw against Mexico (2-2).
The exporting country of brilliant figures feels degraded because its youth team, in addition, He only turned three goals and fit fivewith what was matched to Saudi Arabia that had the same record, being fourth in Group F.
Brazil, meanwhile, played the World Cup without its maximum stars, the stewo strikers of Chelsea and Endrick of Real Madrid, in addition to the defender Vitor Reis, Manchester City card assigned to the Spanish Girona, because their clubs refused by not being obliged to give them up.
Historical, in the worst way
This new sports failure exceeds the elimination of Brazil of the same tournament in the round of 16, in the Canada edition in 2007.
A low 11 % performance left the Brazilian presentation, matched with Panama, Cuba – which even scored one more goal – and Saudi Arabia as a result of the Little effectiveness in attack.
The owners of the ‘Bonito Jogo’ They were unrecognizablethey did not dominate the ball except with Morocco and remained among the selections that the long balls and centers used much more.
In three games the Brazilian players were among the teams that More clear goal chances failed Together with Italy, and only the arch finished off. The attackers Luighi, of the Palmeiras; Deivid Washington, from Chelsea; and Wesley, from Al-Nasser, were indebted.
The scratch scratch
Does 14 years that Brazil does not win a U-20 World Cup. The last time was in the 2011 Colombian edition, although it was semifinalist in 2015. In that period he stopped classifying three of the six contests that were played.
“Base football lives a deep crisis that can no longer be hidden”, Wrote the newspaper Meia Hora, who considered that what happened is not an isolated event to remember that this Brazilian team was thrashed 6-0 by Argentina in the South American Sub-20 of this year, which came out as a champion.
Menezes, 53he won two Sub-20 South American titles in 2023 and 2025, in three years occupying the position also directly directing in that period interim at the absolute selection after the departure of Tite.
“This is my sixth competition at the head of the National Team and it is the first time we were eliminated in the first phase. It is a very hard blow; We did not expect this “Menezes declared on Saturday after losing with Spain.
But under his command, Brazil was eliminated by Israel in the quarterfinals in the edition of the tournament two years ago in Argentina, losing 3-2 with a goal in the 108th minute of the extension.
“The fans He is sad, annoying, but Sometimes the entire context does not understandall our difficulties. We had little time to work, to train, ”explained Menezes.
