Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 129. (Read 67557 times)

I know that some people here are not wrong when they say that there is still a lot of time to prepare for the World Cup and it would even be enough time for a new star to rise out of the ashes or a young talent to take over within the next 2.5 years. But looking at it realistically, I just can't conceive how a Brazilian team would play so well that they suddenly become the tournament's favorites again as they usually have been in the past at World Cups and also the Copa America. I think this time there is hardly any doubt that they are not a favorite.

Yes, I wish Dorival Jr luck in carrying out this big responsibility, speculation about the future of the Brazilian national team manager has ended. I think all the players will respect him in the dressing room, his success with several clubs has become legitimacy for his quality performance and is worthy of appreciation. Personally, I hope that Dorival can promote young players to maintain regeneration in the Samba team squad. with his experience coaching clubs in local competitions, I think Dorival can have knowledge regarding these young talents.

What is clear is that managing the Brazilian National Team will not be easy, because the large fan base throughout the world means that the team performance is always in the spotlight. Dorival must get used to the pressure he will face in the future, such as calling players into the main squad. Intrigued by his future performance, future friendly matches will be a reference to see his strategy.

It seems that this time I agree with you about naming Brazil as a weak team. Brazil today is really very different from the Brazil we know. I can say that they will no longer be favored in the 2026 world cup. Now we look at the Brazilian squad list, are there any players we know? Is there a player who is a star player at his club? I do not think so. It is very sad when looking at Brazil today because I enjoyed my childhood with the samba dance of the players.

Really if we look at the points table of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers it looks really bad for the Brazil team because the Brazil team is at number 6 it is really sad. At one time, Argentina also performed very poorly. Even after the Argentine team performed poorly, Messi and Course managed to organize the Argentina team beautifully and won the World Cup in Qatar. However, from that belief, if the players of the Brazilian team want to perform well, they must play well, especially the poor performance of the Brazilian team is one of the reasons that Neymar is not in the team. If Neymar recovers from injury, 2026 World Cup will be a good thing for Brazil. Of course, we will expect the Brazilian team to perform well in the 2026 World Cup so that billions of Brazil fans don't get disappointed.

Personally Carlo Ancelotti less experience become national team manager although he was success with many trophies achievement all top european domestic league from Ligue 1, Serie A, La Liga and Premier League but I doubt he will success with Brazil national team because difference level between club and national team.
Firstly rumor linked Carlo Ancelotti will be Brazil managers he not gives good respond and looks more comfortable for him keep becoming Real Madrid manager or other teams in the future than have to tries become national team manager has difficulty challenge and play fewest match every season.

I disagree! No coach in the world can magically change any team within a short period of time. Saying that there is no doubt is probably because it is unlikely anyway that they don't qualify and I would now have no doubt either no matter who the coach is as so many teams do qualify from the CONMEBOL area. But Ancelotti could have changed a few things for the better for sure, but he made a well considered choice. I think it is no coincidence that he decided against coaching Brazil as he can see with his own eyes what is going on. He has no reason to leave a top team like Real Madrid to coach a weak team like Brazil. Brazil is really far from what they are usually able to play.

This is true, as I said before, the coach is an important variable, for the team to be successful and win several games, in addition to talented players it is necessary to have a good coach, because he will help and guide the team to victory. .

Excellent observation, I have no doubt, but Brazil will need to face several challenges in the future, especially the Copa América, and I agree with you, the Copa América will be a test to see if Dorival Jr. can be a good coach for Brazil and if he will be able to further improve the level of the Brazilian football team.

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ps: Now it's official, Dorival Jr has accepted the invitation from CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) and he's the new coach of the Brazilian football team
source - brazilian website: Dorival aceita proposta da CBF e será novo técnico da seleção brasileira

If Ancelotti had Joined Brazil then their chances of qualifying wouldn't have been in much doubts because they definitely will be challenged by his tactical approach and the fact that he will want to keep his reputation he wouldn't want to for any reason bring to jeopardy that which he has achieve his career just by being in charge of a team.

These are all factors that would make both the coach (Ancelotti) and the the players to sit up to qualifying and making sure they fly the Brazilian flag high at the 2026 world cup. Brazila still have a chance considering their position on the table and how well they have gone tho they have been characterized with some form of inconsistency recently in their games but I'm yet to see it as a big problem yet, as it's still such they can take care of before the world cup.

Usually, Brazil and Argentina were both racing with each other and even people of Argentina hate the Brazil players or there is the same situation from the Brazil side because of their national teams.
But Currently, there is a huge gap between these two teams and this can definitely put Brazil under pressure because their people expect them to have better performance and maybe this can put Brazil under pressure to finally use another and better coach.

For now, Uruguay is performing very well and they have managed to show match that can really be said to be very competitive, but Argentina is also not weak team so there will be series of pressure put on Uruguay by Argentina.
Even though I also believe that Uruguay has the opportunity to become champions in the 2024 Copa America, in the 2021 Copa America Uruguay managed to get 7 points in the group phase and this is just below Argentina but they failed to enter the semifinals.
Brazil was actually able to perform very well because they were able to reach the final against Argentina but had to be willing to lose 1 - 0 and this was quite fierce match between the two of them.

We will see who wins the 2024 Copa America, whether Argentina can become the defending champion or Brazil or Uruguay can win the title.

From winning the Copa America title it can also be an assessment that in the 2026 World Cup those who win the Copa America can perform well too.

I don't really know much about Brazilian Coaches and so I wouldn't want to stress much about them but I know for sure they are great players over the years they have been able to produce young and talented players who have been able to set good records on world stage and at almost every level in football.

At this point going by the most recent record I don't think the Brazilian team needs a Brazilian coach because the last one they had wasn't able to get them delivered the way it was expected of him and that was why they did soughted after acenloti because the importance of a coach to a team is very crucial as it has a lot to do with the kind of results the team will be producing in almost every tournament they participate in. Getting a very good coach even if it outside Brazil, is very important if the current Brazil squad will be able to go far in the 2026 world cup.

I'm not so sure about that, Uruguay is always a great team, and they are playing quite well in this qualification so far.

Argentina is of course a favorite and they are the current champions, but Uruguay is most of the time playing great.

We would have to see what happens at the cup.

Carlo Ancelotti without doubt is one the best managers in world football at the moment and would've really improved the performance of the Brazilian national team had he became their manager this summer which now looks almost impossible as he has extended his contract with his current club Real Madrid till the summer of 2026.

But that doesn't mean that he's the only manager that has the managerial capability to bring the Brazilian national team back to winning ways again and I said so because Brazil has one of the most talented footballers in the world. The poor performance of Brazil in recent months is as a result of bad coaching which I think they're other managers out there that are capable of making the Brazilian national team competition once again.i don't think Argentina are the only contenders to win the next edition of the Copa America because of Brazil plays in their full strength, they have the needed quality of players to humiliate any South American national team

Okay, I certainly agree with you. Brazil would probably have a chance to keep up fighting against Argentina. But I think it would be happened if Ancelotti had joined Brazil . For your concern, Ancelotti was already working with some of the players of Brazil. But it is not well known now Brazil's situation is dire. Whatever still, you cannot totally counted them out, right? I think Chile also has a chance against Argentina.

In fact the only contender to win the next copa america is Argentina aside of the internal turmoil, because Brazil is another big internal turmoil and also they are gonna miss Neymar for this cup and this team has showed they dont have the strenght of another ones.

The presence of quality coaches will increase Brazil chances of winning the championship trophy in every competition they take part in. Dorival JR, who managed to win the Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian Cup with Sao Paulo, is being considered by the Brazilian Football Federation (CFB), perhaps local coaches will be given more priority because they understand the culture of their team, So it is felt that Dorival JR is the right person to carry out this responsibility.

Brazil challenge in the future is very big, not only to qualify for the World Cup, but in the next few months they will take part in the Copa America competition, I think that could be an opportunity to assess the quality of Dorival JR before going further to the 2026 World cup. regarding Ancelotti who failed to be appointed as Brazil coach, It is reported that the dismissal of the CFB President was a strong reason behind the failure of this decision.

Overall, the Brazilian national team squad is filled with players with extraordinary talent, we can see the names of their stars who play for a number of top european clubs. if the current problems are not handled well, They could lose their luck in every competition, and we can never imagine that at all.

The Brazilian team It's not in a good phase and this can be seen in the team's performance year after year.
The coach is another variable that influences the team, with Diniz's dismissal the Brazilian team will have to hire a coach asap, because this is also a variable that affects the team.
One of the rumors is that Dorival JR could be the coach of Brazilian team (@rdluffy said above).
An excellent coach who could be hired for the Brazilian team is Ancelotti, I would like to see him in brazilian national team, but unfortunately that won't happen.

Brazil is surprising because it is a great team, it is a team that will always surprise and that will always make a difference, now things I don't know if they are going well or badly for the team because Ancelotti told them that he was not going to coach the team and in Part of it is a tough goal, because they say that they can make a difference with him, however I have always said that Brazil knows how to defend itself, I think Brazil will come like a lion when the qualifiers resume, I personally will always see this team with a lot of respect, it is also worth noting that the other teams have surpassed themselves and the level they have is impressive, it seems any team can now beat Brazil, but come on, they have Ney injured, they had Vinicius also the same, they had done a good job against Colombia, but I think things really didn't work out because from one moment to the next they fell but I know that as they are they will get up.

Now, what I sense is that from now on Brazil will not Forgive any team if they Recover as I think , because it is something that they have always done, that is, they are not going to lose a single game, that is what I I think it will happen, but it remains to be seen how they will turn out in attitude, everything is there, because I have always and all my life I have not missed the soccer games when they are playoffs and that has been since I had the use of reason since I was very little , you know things can be like that, Argentina and Brazil have always been the ones that have dominated soccer in South America and that is Something that has been marked, there are Always other Teams that stand out, but I think the best ones so far are As the table of positions Indicates , neither more nor less , I believe that all the Teams in the classification are where they should be, because that is the football that they have played, Undoubtedly Argentina very good and Impeccable , a very tough team thanks to Messi .

Yeah, we will have to see what happens.

Also another thing that most people don't discuss is how well Venezuela is performing in this qualification. They are usually at the bottom of the table, but now they have really good chances to qualify.

I feel that most people simply talk about Brazil not being great but forget to discuss the teams replacing Brazil instead.

Brazil started the tournament quite well. They literally destroyed Bolivia, with a margin of 5-1, and in this match both Neymar and Rodrygo scored two goals each. In the second match they defeated Peru by a margin of 1-0. Then Neymar got injured and things went downhill for Brazil. First a draw against Venezuela, and then consecutive defeats against Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina. Now the tournament will resume only after 9 months and they have enough time to regroup and undergo introspection. And by then, the new coach will also join them.