Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 108. (Read 62883 times)

It seems that they have never failed to qualify for the main round of the World Cup and also agree that this time they will not fail to qualify again, it's just that their not-so-good performance has raised concerns that they will fail but that worry will be answered soon when the qualifiers are held soon, and whether their new coach will be able to show something different to lift Brazil and improve its position in the current standings.
What is quite curious is that after Carlo Ancelotti will not coach Brazil, who will coach Brazil because we know that their current interim coach, Fernando Diniz, will only be there for a year before the CBF appoints a permanent coach, and there are still no rumors about the names of those who will become permanent coaches for the Brazilian national team and of course he must be someone who has very good experience and it would be better for him to be a Brazilian who knows the characteristics of the Brazilian game.

I agree that there is probably little reason to be pessimistic for Brazil whether they will qualify for the World Cup 2026, but since they won just one game after six games have been played, I think it is at least time to be more serious about the situation they are in. There aren't really any easy games in the CONMEBOL qualification and look at the teams right behind them. That is Paraguay and Chile and of course Brazil is the favorite in these games, but Paraguay and Chile isn't like some tiny country from Europe. So there is still some room for error, but if they don't start winning their games, needless to say that they will get in trouble irrespective of being one of the biggest football nations in the world.

For world cup edition, CONMEBOL zone have many teams will qualify to FIFA World Cup 2026 with 6 teams automatically qualify and one team will get ticket trough playoff round. Brazil and Argentina will get not problem finish on six standings position to get automatically qualify round exactly CONMEBOL its not highest intention than European zone.
Actually the CONMEBOL teams achievement in FIFA World Cup not really bad exactly after Argentina become the winner on last edition, I think next edition of FIFA World Cup 2026 seems potential between Argentina or Brazil will get highest round until semifinal or final round.

I think the problem of the Brazilian national team over the past one year is majorly caused by the poor tactical approaches of the coach of the team. Brazil unarguably possesses the best football talents across the globe and it's actually very embarrassing and disrespectful to the national team for anyone to use the injury of just one player as the excuse of their poor run.

Yesterday in the Spanish Super Cup final that'll was played in Saudi Arabia, four goals were scored by Real Madrid and all four were scored by two Brazilians Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo. So it's safe to say that Brazil national team is capable of winning every match they play without Neymar and his absence shouldn't be an excuse for their poor current run. There are so many experienced managers that'll gladly take up the job to coach the Brazilian national team so the country's football governing body CBF should as a matter of urgent sack the current manager and hire a better one that'll bring them back to winning ways.

The rules changed after FIFA announced the 48 teams World Cup in 2026
Now the CONMEBOL qualifiers will have 6 teams qualifying directly and the 7th place team will try to classify in a play-off match (probably against a team from Oceania, and usually teams from South America win that the match and the spot)
So the chances are even greater, only 3 teams will be out of 2026 WC

Brazil and Argentina will very easily qualify for the world cup. because the contestants in the CONMEBOL  zone are only 10 participants. and 5 of them will qualify. and a fairly balanced opponent for Argentina and Brazil is only Uruguay. in terms of squad material Uruguay can be competitive with Argentina and Brazil, the other quality is too far compared to Argentina or Brazil.

One of the reasons why Brazil could not produce the results as expected was regarding the coach, Brazil did not have really great coach with lot of experience in building national team to be able to play competitively in the World Cup.
If there is coach with lot of experience and real performance coupled with some of the great players that Brazil has then it will clearly be possible for them to perform optimally and be able to provide what all football fans want.
Moreover, the figure of coach is very important and influences how football team develops. When the team has standard players but has great coach, it is clear that changes and developments towards better direction will be achieved.
But when team has lots of great players but the coach fails and can't take advantage of all of that, it will be in vain, they will never be able to become great and strong team.

CBF should have had other options after their failure to bring in Ancelotti failed and CBF should have been able to get an equivalent coach or even have experience with various achievements like Ancelotti.
It just seems like the CBF will still have difficulty finding the right coach to bring about change for the Brazilian national team.
Maybe if they only have coach who is lacking the ability to build developing national team, Brazil will not be able to survive.

Yeah, Brazil as you mention has a lot of really great players.

Indeed, the results they are getting clearly are not expected.

But soon I am sure they will be able to move things around and make a change for the better.

I didn't check the history of the last World Cups but I think Brrazil never failed to be in the World Cup and think this time they won't fail again. However, they had the worst performance they couldn't have and the next gams from Brazil are unpredictable because they are going to use a new coach who is totally unknown to the non-Brazilian people but I think if they fail their coach and the people who chose him will be under pressure.

I agree that we need to talk about a team which is having enough sources but still struggling badly and having not good enough results and no doubt they are having one of the best players which can bring changes drastically and also having fair chance for bounce back, but their current performance is surely debatable for us.

Now new coach is arrived, and we will have can things go into positive way, or they are going to have more troubling time into their future these all-big players which are doing impressive run looking for the better depth and motivation to have positive results with performance and quality has never been problem for the Brazil even I'm personally feeling they can jump from 6th to 3rd or 4th in coming matches easily.

Well.. we are talking about a team that underwent three consecutive defeats in the CONMEBOL qualifiers. They are at the 6th position in the points table (out of a total of 10 teams). Teams like Venezuela are ahead of them in points table, at this point. So if someone says negative about Brazil, then it is understandable. One argument in their support is that they are impacted by Neymar's injury. But then, they have some of the best players in the world such as Vinícius Júnior, Richarlison and Matheus Cunha. So the performance at qualifiers was a big shock to everyone.

@doomloop on the face of it I can understand why everyone’s so negative about Brazil but let’s not forget that this is a team that has many talented stars hence I won’t underestimate them even on their worst day. Furthermore with Carlo not taking over they’ll have to figure who can lead them in his absence but I strongly feel that they can yet do well if the new coach can motivate them and fix their pending issue’s.

I agree here now for the better response we have to wait for their next performance then things will be clear about their future as can they end their deadlock with this new coach, or we are going to face same situation in coming days even most chances we will have some better changes which will help them for having better results and also ending their drought of trophies which are surely needed from them but for this all we have to wait as how new coach will bring changes and how things will be work for them with his strategy which needed because there is no problem with quality it's just needed better motivation and good changing which allow these players to give their best in big events.

they now have a new coach in the person of dorival júnior, he was formerly the head coach at São Paulo in April 2023 where he helped the team win their first ever Copa de Brasil with some other records around his career so far, he has been a coach around the Brazilian league so he's got a good idea around Brazilian style of playing football so he will not find it difficult getting used to the team members within a short period of time he will get used them all and his tactics and strategy will be such that they all can adopt to easily.

Hopefully with this their new coach the Brazilian team will have better form and be able to perform well in the world cup just like they did few years back hopefully they go beyond the point they got to few years back.

Yeah, it is clearly a mental game these days, because they are really great players.

I am sure they will conquer their minds and proceed to win the next few games.

We can't predict anything about Brazil yet since they started working with their new coach and this coach is totally unknown to the non-Brazilian people and we can't say if Brazil can get anything in the 2026 World Cup or not but the facts about Brazil is they usually had good performance in the past world cups we saw from them and now if don't get the ticket for the 2026 world cup there will be a huge pressure on this country and the people who chose this coach.

I can't say if Brazil is going to start achieving things or not. Because the coach is very new right now. And it is also going to be tough to ask a lot from him so quickly. But at the same time, he knew what he is getting himself into. So he should be ready to take the challenge. I think the biggest target should be the next world cup. Anything before that should be players and the team getting ready for the world cup. It has been a pretty long time since we have seen a really good Brazil squad in the world cup. That's what they have to work towards right now.

To say that they will be knocked out of the World Cup in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, the Brazilian team had a very bad performance from the beginning. Everyone is saying what everyone is thinking, many are saying that Brazil will not be able to participate in the World Cup, etc. But I think the Brazilian team must prove themselves before the Copa America that they play well. 2026 World Cup However, each of their players must play well, if they play well, they will certainly do well in the 2026 World Cup. At one time, Argentina performed very poorly, and now their team's performance is the best. So it is expected that the bad times will come and the bad times will come and the good times will come. Likewise, every player in the Brazil team will have to prove that we can turn around from the bad times.

I see Brazil in the pattern that have Alemania (and still in it) or Argentina a few years ago, when they cant find the form of play and they also cant find the proper coach for the situation.And they ended up calling old coaches to overcome the situation with more experience than other thing.

That's the thing, there are a lot of more matches to be played in the future, and people are just assuming Brazil will be out of the world cup.

Highly unlikely in my view.

Brazil has always qualified to every single world cup since inception, so that's almost a century of data proving they will qualify.

There's no way Brazil won't qualify, specially now that there are more slots.