Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 128. (Read 67557 times)

The change of coach in the Brazilian national team will renew the mentality of the squad as a whole, understanding the character of the players must be prioritized. Being a national team manager is very different from being a manager at club level, because the difference is very big, building chemistry between players with the league background they work in. I'm sure Dorival JR already understands these very basic challenges as a consideration for choosing the appropriate strategy, personally I don't know much about his reputation at club level so far.

Brazil still has plenty of time to improve and make things better, so they can regain the trust of their fans around the world. As a team that has an even squad depth in every line, Brazil is still the favorite in every competition, especially in the World Cup, even though they are currently slumping in the qualifying standings, but personally I think they will gradually rise again.

You are absolutely right because even before the 2022 World Cup Brazil team has performed very well. The playing condition of the Brazilian team has worsened since the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and they have been playing poorly ever since. Brazil is a strong team so their performance was never expected by millions of football fans. Because there may not be a good course, the Brazilian team should find a good quality course so that they can prepare well for the 2026 World Cup. Not having an important player Neymar in the team can be another reason, so Brazil's Neymar can participate in the 2026 World Cup due to injury, so every player in the Brazil team must perform well. So that the Brazil team can complete their hexa mission in the 2026 World Cup.

You're probably right. At this point, the mental aspect affects all the players, coach and even managers of the Brazilian national team. When the phase is bad, everything seems to go wrong, and things happen that have never happened before, like the Brazilian team's defeats in the 2026 WC qualifiers

I know that many of you no longer believe in Brazil and prefer European teams, but if there's one thing Brazil is good at, it's the power to overcome, and it could be a very good thing if Brazil goes to the 2026 World Cup without all the favoritism (although the 200 million Brazilians already put absurd pressure on the team before any World Cup).

Now that the coach has been appointed, let's wait for the job to be done.
I know that many of you don't know the coach either, or always prefer names already known in Europe, but Dorival JR is good, and could take a good chance

Yeah, but it's not like the players magically got worse in a year or two.

It's simply a bad time for Brazil, they will get back in their feet and continue winning more games in the future.

It's all a mental game at the moment.

I believe that the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 had several unforeseen events, Germany was eliminated at the beginning, Morocco finished in 4th place, Japan beat Germany, Brazil lost to Cameroon, Morocco beat Spain... I'm not belittling these teams, I'm just sharing that sometimes unforeseen events happen and the weakest can surprise.
If Ancelotti became coach of the Brazilian national team, that would be a game changer and that would improve the team a lot, but even so, Dorival Jr is an excellent coach, as you already said, I'm looking forward to seeing how Brazil's performance will be with him as technician.

Brazil in the 2022 World Cup had a much better situation than we see from them right now and I think Brazil should think about improving the team if they want to even have the same performance we saw from them in the last season because currently, they are obviously now in the good form. However, I think Brazil with its younger players can have a sssshining future if they get a new coach and pay more attention to the younger talents they have got.

I assume you mean the last World Cup in Qatar in 2022 where Brazil lost in the Qatar finals against Croatia. I don't think the Samba Boys performed very poorly because they lost to a good side on penalties. They indeed lost to a lowly-rated team like Cameroon but we shouldn't also forget that the winner of the World Cup Argentina lost to Saudi Arabia. The rumor that the Brazilian national team will hire Carlo Ancelotti has been laid to rest after the Italian tactician extended his contract with Real Madrid.

But with the appointment of Dorival Júnior as new coach the team has hope of getting some positive results. The former Flamengo, Fluminense, and Santos coach has lots of experience and has won prestigious trophies like the Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian Cup. He also helped Vasco da Gama to win the Seria B title. The 61-year-old tactician has lots of experience that can be useful to the Seleção Canarinha.

Dont look so much the table about Brazilian performance, that is only momentary and also they lose games who can be losed, against Argentina and agaisnt the newly coached by Bielsa Uruguay who is in great shape right now beatin also Argentina, the only game where Brazil failed was against Venezuela in his home.

Brazil is undoubtedly a strong team but such a performance is not really expected from them. Because the performance of the Brazil team during the 2026 World Cup has been really bad. Thousands of football fans were heartbroken to see the performance of the Brazilian team compared to the strong team that they are. Due to this performance of the Brazilian team, their course may have been dropped. The Brazilian team has not appointed a new course yet. But the new course that will come must have expectations so that every player in Brazil team 2026 World Cup can perform well. So that they can forget the failure of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers by performing in the 2026 World Cup.

Yes this is true! I also believe (once again) one of the favorites teams are Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. As you said, Argentina was champion 15 times, Uruguay 15 times and Brazil 9 times, while the next on the list is Paraguay, Chile and Peru, both winning the Copa América twice.
I can see a huge discrepancy between the teams, and I think this way, I believe that the Copa America champions will be Argentina, Uruguay or Brazil.

But in general, I believe that the Copa America will be a challenge for Brazil to see how the current Brazilian team will perform and especially what Dorival Jr's possible debut as Brazil's new coach will be like... Anyway, I'm Looking forward to seeing the performance of different countries in the Copa America and especially Brazil.

Thinking about Brazil and the changes they should make, I think we are going to see a new generation of young and talented players in this team soon but in order to change the team and use the new player, their coach should take more risks and try not to sing the older players like Neymar and other experienced players. This can put them can be in good shape for the 2026 World Cup.

I will also say that Brazil is a good team but probably not a balanced team. Course the coaching has been a problem for them. But at the same time, the game is not very balanced which has been a problem for them. But I think the change of authority is actually going to matter because they will be able to do better in my opinion. I don't know if they are going to win the next World Cup or not of course. Because that level of improvement is going to take time just like it did with Argentina. But it is definitely not impossible if approached correctly, right?

In my opinion, it is not just Argentina and Brazil that should be seen as favorites to win the Copa América, Uruguay is also a strong candidate to win the Copa América, since Chile is also not doing well, so I only see the Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as favorites to win. This is because in recent years the Copa América has been won by Argentina, Brazil and Chile. but when you look at which teams have won the most in this tournament, we have Argentina with 15 and Uruguay with 15. while Brazil only managed 9. This can be seen here:


source: https://www.topendsports.com/events/soccer/copa-america/winners.htm

Many people have placed Brazil in a top position just because of past achievements and do not look at the present and the future. For example, what happened in the World Cup last year, many people before the World Cup started last year kept saying that Brazil would win the World Cup, as if Brazil were a strong team when they weren't and were very It was obvious that Brazil was very weak compared to many world cup teams, people still kept betting that Brazil would be able to win the world cup and ignored the clear signs that the truth was that Brazil was weak and would not even reach the final . The level of football in France, Argentina and even England is very good, with excellent players in their squads, while Brazilian players were just appearing more in the press due to controversies.

Brazil won the world cup in 2022, it's been 20 years since they won any world cup, they have become a relic of the past, most of the time this is due to the fact that there are no changes, the coaches of the main team They are from Brazil and Brazilian teams that if they played against a team from Europe would lose. So how can you evaluate the coaches’ CV in this way? it was more plausible that Brazilian football directors would choose a coach with great achievements in several national teams, but they do things that just make me laugh, I don't know what the criteria are for choosing the coach of the Brazilian national team, it seems to me that it's enough Being Brazilian and being a coach of a Brazilian team is enough, but if these Brazilian coaches really are good coaches, then why aren't they hired in the premier league? Why aren't they hired in the Bundesliga? Why are they not signed in La Liga or Serie A? How many Brazilian coaches have already won the European Champions League?

I haven't seen many yet, I don't even know if there are 10, but I suppose they aren't. So Brazil in the World Cup has players who play in Europe in its squad and its biggest opponents are the Europeans and Argentina, who also have most of their players playing in Europe, so at the end of the day choose a coach with a lot of experience and achievements in Europe and in national teams should be a priority for the Brazilian football federation. but once again they chose the same thing.

There is one more aspect that I think is underestimated, especially when we are talking about the national teams and that is luck in regards to the players a coach has available. There are truly golden eras. France has a great era at the moment. There has hardly been a French team that had so much depth in the quality of the players across all positions. Yes in 1998 there was Zinedine Zidane and some other exceptional players. But at the moment France has a dozen stars at least. Spain had a golden era, but is not quite as good now. Brazil had several golden eras, but this is what we are now discussing here. They are not in the middle of a golden era and talent plays a big role. There is no Ronaldinho or El Phenomenon every four years. That's why Ancelotti would also be limited by the talent he has available. The talent will never be bad from Brazil, but it is not as good as it often times was.

The current Brazil team manager has been relieved of his duties due to consecutive failures in the World Cup qualifiers but there is no word yet on who has been appointed as the new manager. Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was supposed to take charge of the Brazilian team, but he extended the contract with Real Madrid, which means that even in this season, Real Madrid is not getting this manager. In that case, maybe we are going to see a different manager to perform the duties of Brazil. I don't have any idea who the next manager will be, but whoever is given the responsibility of the next manager, the Brazilian football organization CBF must think carefully and then give the responsibility because they gave someone the responsibility before and he didn't do his job properly.

A good team but lack of a good manager, if a good manager takes charge of this team, the performance of this team will change a lot.

Brazil had a bit of a managerial issue and seems like they have recovered that and hired someone now, and I believe that they are going to get better. Also, it is not really like their entire doom or anything if they end up not having a great year, they may get eliminated once, and that would still be fine, it is not a big deal.

Just let them get better, they do not have all that amazing team right now, and with time there will be better kids who will take up the jersey and will do better. Brazil is a football culture nation, they are not going to end up being terrible just because of a few seasons, they may miss some cups and do badly and they will still be fine. When was the last time they won something? It's fine, it should not be a big deal.

Dorival Jr is an excellent coach and did a good job when he was coach of Sao Paulo (one of the biggest brazilian teams), he won several titles and made a big difference to the club.
I confess that being a coach of one of the biggest teams in the world, I have no doubt that it will be a difficult task, but I believe that he will be able to do an excellent job in the Brazilian team... and as previously mentioned, I imagine that the Copa America it will be a test for him to prove it.
I also wish Dorival Jr luck and I confess that I am looking forward to seeing the next games of the Brazilian football team.

I absolutely agree that managing a team like Brazil is not going to be easy. Especially because the squad itself is not balanced. They have a lot of forward players. Especially wingers. They have very few genuine strikers and also not a lot of quality defenders as well. Someone could also say that same thing about the midfield of Brazil as well. So it is definitely going to be hard for a coach to balance the team when there are only attacking mindset players in the squad. And the way Brazil has been playing in recent times, the expectation is going to be a lot from the new coach. I don't know if he will actually be able to deliver, to be honest.

I know that no team can be changed magically if they just hire a new manager but I think what Ancelotti will be able to do with his team will be far better than what Brazil is doing right now. They are looking very bad in the World Cup qualifiers and if Ancelotti had joined there would not have been any worries about that. As for Copa America, no one is counting Brazil as a good team right now. If Ancelotti would have joined Brazil, at least no one would have ignored them.

Brazil is full of young talents and I think Ancelotti is the best manager in the world to treat a young team. His whole Real Madrid squad is currently filled with young talents and even he got some of the Brazilians in his squad such as Vinicius Jr. and Rodrygo.

you have a point on this reality. it is not just an overight success for the coach but years and years of hard work as well as with the athletes involved. you can't make a magic team out of thin air. but it is the combination of various factors why a certain team can outstand among the rest.

also, the performance of the athletes inside the field depends on so many factors, not only the skills of each athlete but the overall camaraderie of these athletes. sometimes it is how they complement with each other how they execute their skills and strengths on the field.


2026 is still couple of years from now. so yeah, they still have time to rectify the angles that they think can be of their weakness come the world cup. brazil or argentina, they know, fans around the world are eyes on them, so the motivation over there is already set. they only need to show what performance they have to offer.