Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 111. (Read 67455 times)

It is really not impossible for Brazil to be out of top 10 in the FIFA rankings. The current rankings for top 10 is like below:



Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Men%27s_World_Ranking

Brazil have had a really bad form so far and they will hope for some recovery with their new coach Dorival Júnior. But there is really no guarantee for Brazil at the moment. After failing about Ancelotti we will see how much this new coach can contribute to the team. Brazil have amazing players that they can really do much more than now. Like Argentina have achieved it new, I hope Brazil can win the World Cup in the near future too (the last one was in 2002). 

A good coach really makes all the difference. But even with the talented young people we have in Brazil today, they don't compare to those of the past, look, which Brazilian player today is fully capable of competing for the best player in the world award? none.... They are just good players and nothing more.

A winning generation takes many years to be polished, for me Brazil will be there for many more years until it returns to the good times.




I don't mean the countries, but the football teams. Are you going to tell me that any of these national teams are competitive teams?

I really don't understand how you call "horrible" those countries that despite their deficiencies, thanks to their politicians, have incredible natural beauty with abundant water that can be made drinkable and with extensive reserves of gold, oil and so on. I think it's a word. very derogatory to describe them, those countries are growing a lot in football terms and if you look at the South American countries they have beaten European countries many times, as you say, there is the clear example of Argentina and Brazil, they are the biggest icons that have a great level but you cannot speak ill of the countries that face these football titans, in addition the South American qualifiers are the most difficult that exist in football, the weather conditions that they sometimes have to face when it is their turn to play the qualifiers for the World Cup are very difficult, sometimes you have to go from a stadium in Barranquilla (Colombia) with almost more than 40C° at the height of Bolivia at more than 4083 meters above sea level, where basically if you run you run out of air and you There is a lack of oxygen in the brain, many South American teams do not qualify, I am sure that if Brazil and Argentina were in Europe they would leave out big teams like Portugal, Italy, among others, so a comparison like that does not seem correct to me.

Nor can I say that the level of European football is above that of South America, because most of the players who shine most in European football are South American, at least one is from South America, and possibly from some countries that you consider horrible, which By the way, you don't know what you're missing about what's in those countries.

If we refer merely to the football level, fortunately there are more opinions about the World Cup classification, with Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Bolvia, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela, which have a lot of heart when it comes to playing football. They are countries that If the other teams are not careful, they can easily win a World Cup, because if you look at those "horrible countries" at some point they have beaten those titans like Brazil, Argentina, it may be that in Europe football has more support and more money for give support to the players so they perfect the technique of each of them much more, but pure talent is something that cannot be improvised.

Do not be surprised that in Europe you Hear the Name of Luis Diaz, Luis Suarez, James Rodrigues, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Salomón Rondon , the Fletcher brothers , Messi , Neymar , Juan Arango, among others, at that time he Says when Ronaldo and his Combo were Also shining are Tino Asprilla, Pibe Valderrama, yes, they are players from those countries , just as we also have great European players like CR7 , Haaland, Among others, you will Always see the South Americans Present and Shining.

Brazil is without doubt one of the best footballing nations and also the most successful club in the world as they've won the World Cup in 5 different occasions which is the most by any nation. Also in the history of football, Brazil have been able to produce some of the biggest football icons. Pele of blessed memory who is regarded as the greatest footballer to have ever played the game of football was a Brazilian before his death and not just him, but also so many other football greats like Ronaldinho, Ronaldo Delima, Kaka, Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo and so many others.
Despite all the above mentioned great names, Brazil currently boosts of some of the best footballers in the world but their current problem is finding a manager that can help improve the performance of the team. They can still become very competitive again if they sign an experienced and good manager to manage the national team of Brazil again.

But those were different times and I know what you are talking about. I have been asking myself what the biggest problem actually is for Brazilian football and I think when you look back at players like Rivaldo, Ronaldihno, Ronaldo, Kaka, and sorry that I can't mention them all, I think they had a different attitude towards football, towards their career. Yes some of them had scandals and a special lifestyle, but if you compare those players to Neymar, who is beyond any doubt a brilliant player, they have shown more dedication and more focus on the game. Neymar is distracted too much, he is more like an influencer and has all these parties all the time. I think he had the potential to become the world's best player for a year at least. If he played a perfect season, he would have probably been able to compete with Messi and Ronaldo. I don't think for many years in a row, but during his peak seasons. Brazil doesn't have real leaders in the team, correct me if I am wrong. They often lose track and fall apart during games.

I remember when I was in secondary school, that was when Brazil was super hot. Then those their players are the world top best and whenever Brazil wants to play against a country in the world cup, everyone will love to watch the match. But now the set of players are not that strong enough to overcome the challenge by other countries and win the world cup.

It is still the past glory that is speaking for Brazil, because at that time most countries have not built their squad that strong. Currently, football is the major center of attraction and entertainment so every country is more serious on it.

That's a true story about all teams and even the best teams in the world will fall one day and they will have bad days, there is even the possibility for Brazil to never return to the gold days they had before. We can't forget that Brazil is the most honorable team in the world even with the current performance we see from the team.
I think the main problem for Brazil is to sticking to the traditions while the traditions can't help the team in this situation, they avoid using any non-Brazilian coach and that's why they can't use the knowledge from outside of their nation,
While Brazil is a country where you can find many talents and good players there is not a good management system to help them have better performance for their team.
For example, we saw teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona buy young Brazilian talented players during this season but all these young players need better coaches.

Brazil during its preparations usually faces the most horrible teams possible, such as Venezuela, Ecuador, etc., it is very rare to see friendlies or preparatory games against major European teams. The reality is that this generation of players is very, very bad, it's even sad to remember that we once had Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo, Romario and so many others on the team and see today's team. Horrible

Many people are unhappy with Brazil's current performance and there are many Brazilian fans who are angry and displeased with their team's performance and are commenting that Brazil will not qualify for this World Cup. If Brazil doesn't qualify for the main stage of the World Cup, then almost half of the world's fans will not watch the football game. Brazil may have had a few poor early matches but they still have plenty of opportunities and Brazil will surely take advantage of that opportunity to qualify for the main stage of the World Cup. 

The main problem in the Brazil team is that they don't have a quality manager right now. If the CBF can appoint a quality manager, Brazil will definitely return to their usual form.

I doubt it! I believe there was some truth to the rumors that Ancelotti could take responsibility for the Brazilian national team, but Ancelotti realized that Real Madrid is in a prime position to become a dominant force over the coming years in club football. Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham, soon maybe Mbappe. All these young world class players and Ancelotti is set to be their coach if he wants to. He saw that opportunity and told himself that he doesn't want to give that up just yet and I would have done the same in his position.

On the contrary, he saw what's going on with Brazil. The team is far from their best and the composition of the squad can't be influenced as much and Brazil doesn't have a perfect squad at the moment. In Madrid, Ancelotti can improve any position he wants by including a new player. In Brazil he can't do that and he didn't see the potential for the current team to make big steps forward.

So many factors in club football are superior for him at the moment that giving it up didn't make sense to Ancelotti. The excitement, the money, the quality of the team, the chance to build a legacy with the best players in the world under his management on a daily basis. Must feel like a dream for any coach.

Brazil gets kicked out from the top ten standings FIFA ranking is not surprised with their bad performance currently in qualifier round, I think have opportunity to get more points and move the higher standings again if can win upcoming match in qualifier on March and the best result in Copa America at June 2024.
Brazil have many youth talent but difficult for winning every matches in qualifier round, upcoming two friendly matches at the end this month against England and Spain Brazil have to win if want back to the top standings FIFA ranking. Next schedule win Copa America will help more for returning to the top standings rank again as the first position teams.

I won't be too surprised if Brazil gets kicked out from the top-10 in FIFA ranking. They have been in decline for quite some time now. Domestic leagues are of poor quality and therefore the promising players pack their bags and go to either Europe or North America. As a result, there is absolutely no team bonding within the squad. Because the only time these players are together is when they represent the national team (and that occurs not too frequently). Once Neymar retires, I am quite sure that the quality will go down even further.

Brazil is in 5th place in the FIFA rankings with 1784.09 points and of course this is still at the top so saying that Brazil performance has decreased is not really accurate.
I completely agree with you that Brazil is one of the most consistent because they always qualify for the World Cup competition even though they have failed to win the title for long time.
After all, everyone also knows that Brazil is the most successful by winning 5 World Cup titles and this is proof that Brazil remains one of the strongest.
For the next World Cup I also believe they can qualify but to be the best candidate in the title race is still up doubt it.
Brazil current condition makes it impossible to fight for the World Cup title and being able to reach the quarter-finals or semi-finals is already very good achievement.

We can only watch and wait to see whether Brazil can really show its best strength for the upcoming World Cup and can fulfill the hopes of all fans.

I think even if Ancelotti didn't extend his contract with Real Madrid, still, Brazil couldn't be his next destination and the reason is very clear if you check the former coaches in Brazil. They usually had a Brazilian coach and they tried to avoid using any non-Brazilian coaches because they thought Brazil was the country where they are better football players and coaches and even other countries should use their coaches mostly because of the performance of Brazilians in the past world cups.
That's why I think even the new coach of Brazil, Junior, who is totally unknown to me can't help this team because don't have the knowledge for it.

Dorival Junior is currently the best coach working in Brazil, he coached Flamengo and São Paulo and simply brought both teams back to compete for titles. He is very good at dealing with players and internal relationship problems, generally the players like him a lot and admire him, so I am very hopeful that this time Brazil can have a good campaign in the World Cup. Dorival is much more competent than Fernando Diniz.

It must be really sad to hear when Brazil first heard about Ancelotti's decision to extend with Real Madrid instead.    Many news sources wrote it like Ancelotti has already agreed with Brazil first. It was so persuasive that I was also thinking like there was such agreement until his new deal with Real Madrid was announced. 

Ancelotti might have changed the Brazilian coach tradition in a positive way too in my opinion. You know how successful coach he has been with various teams in Europe. The only doubt I have is about his not managing a national team in his career yet. But we will never find out if he ends his career without managing one.

Not really sure about that.

Brazil is the number 1 team on the FIFA ranking, they have won the most world cups in history, and they have qualified to every single edition of the world cup, which no other country has done, ever.

I can guarantee you that Brazil will qualify to this world cup as well, and they will go to the second stage.

After that it's a bit of a gamble though.

Unfortunately, year after year Brazil's performance has been decreasing and this is clear in the results of their last games.
Regarding the coach, Dorival Junior is a renowned Brazilian coach and in my opinion I think he can lead Brazil better than Diniz, but I believe that Ancelloti could become a game changer because he's a coach with extreme quality and reputation, but unfortunately he didn't go to Brazil.
Brazil will have some friendly matches in a few weeks and in a few months Brazil will play in the Copa America, after all, after these games we will be able to see what the level of the Brazilian football team will be.

In fact, there is not much difference between Dorival Junior and the other coach who worked in Brazil and I think in both cases they are not going to get perfect results and Dorival Junior can't help this team to have better performance at all.
The reason for them to choose this coach was mostly because of this coach being Brazilian because they don't want to have coaches from other countries and even if the time when there was new about Ancelloti working in this country for their national team they were not happy because they said they prefer a Brazilian coach and that their tradition which can damage the team over time because Dorival Junior is obviously not good enough for them.
 

I used to think that way but I have seen that things have always been very focused on giving importance to the fact that the human being could do better, but the corruption is there, I don't know if you have seen the UEFA matches, for example no I know if you saw the Madrid game where they eliminated a goal at the last minute against Madrid, that is something that should not be done, plus they carded another player, you know for me that is a lot of corruption, I have seen cases of fouls serious and the referee does not take them as fouls, those things make you think very badly of one as a spectator, as a fan, as whatever, because if there is technology to see things that the human being does not see, then he must stick to that I think that the Var referees have to have much more responsibility than the main referee because they have the cameras and see everything in detail, for that reason I see things better that way.

When I see that there are many irregularities, I would like the VAR to become more radicalized, because at least in South American football because things with corruption are seen a lot and in European football I see that too.

If the refereeing body is more rigid and penalizes injustices, the players are much more careful and will not try to cheat, this is something where we would see a notable difference, so it seems better to me.