The Portuguese Jorge JesusSaudi Al-Hilal Technician, is emerging as the best positioned candidate to be the new Brazil coachaccording to the main sports media in the country.
ESPN affirms that the former Benfica former company is “the priority name” of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF) to replace Junior Dorival, dismissed on Friday after the humiliating defeat against Argentina (4-1) in the South American classification league for the 2026 World Cup.
I would resign the Club World Cup
The Portuguese coach would be willing to give up participating in the FIFA Club World Cup with the Al Hilal and assume the reins of the ‘Canarinha’ with a view to the double day of June against Ecuador and Paraguay.
However, GE, the Sports Portal of Globo, says that “the favorite” Italian Carlo Ancelotti continues, although his contractual situation with Real Madrid makes his arrival on the bench of the world’s pentacampeoneone almost impossible.
Ancelotti, old desire
This media indicated that the CBF “resumed the contacts” with the Italian coach this week, something that the interested party himself denied this Friday, who said he was 100 % concentrated in his work with the white team.
Ancelotti is an old wish of the president of the CBF, Ednaldo Rodrigues, who already tried unsuccessfully his hiring in 2023, to the point that he put in charge of the National Team to two interim (Ramon Menezes and Fernando Diniz) Waiting for a ‘yes’ of the Italian who never arrived.
In this sense, and to avoid a new frustration with ‘Carletto’, Jorge Jesus has placed himself as the most realistic option and “is on the radar” of the CBF, according to the TNT Sports station.
Neymar: “They don’t get me into this”
Neymarstar of the Brazilian team and who coincided with Jorge Jesus in the Al-Hilaldodged the matter at the ceremony of awards ceremony of the Paulista championship.
“I have nothing to do, I am a player. They do not put me in this, I am out,” said the Santos striker in statements to a podcast.
In social networks, Brazilian fans have blessed the arrival of the Flamengo ex -technician, because they still remember their glorious passage through the Rio de Janeiro squad, with which he won the League and the Copa Libertadores in 2019, among other titles.
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However, the list is not reduced to Ancelotti and Jorge Jesus. The newspaper ‘Statão’, one of the most influential in the country, also places among the possible candidates for the former player of Atlético de Madrid and Deportivo de la Coruña Filipe Luís, Current Flamengo coach; to the Portuguese Abel Ferreira, of successful march in El Palmeiras; to Roger Machado (International of Porto Alegre), to the exporter Rogério Ceni (Bahia) and even Pep Guardiola (Manchester City).
