Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 141. (Read 68722 times)

I have also heard this news for long time and it looks fine without any problems so Ancelotti has been confirmed as coach of the Brazilian national team.
There seems to be no signing yet because considering that Ancelotti himself is coach who still has contract with Real Madrid, perhaps after his contract expires there will be an inauguration or signing of an agreement from both parties.

There is the name Xabi Alonso who is always associated with Real Madrid to be able to replace Ancelotti and of course Ancelotti has also agreed or stated that Xabi Alonso will be good coach for Real Madrid.
All this is because of Xabi Alonso achievements in bringing Leverkusen to improve the quality of the game and consistently succeeding in bringing Leverkusen so far to the top of the standings and has the opportunity to become Bundesliga champions.

I also think that Real Madrid doesn't need to look for an alternative who can replace Ancelotti for a longer time because there are also several reports circulating that Xabi Alonso is also interested in being able to train the Real Madrid squad and lead them to title UCL again.

As far as I know the deal is pretty safe between Ancelotti and Brazil although I don't know whether there have been any signings yet.

I assume that if Real Madrid can't find an alternative, maybe there will be compromise for one more season with Ancelotti. But he knows if he wants to prepare the Brazilian team for 2026, he can't wait any longer than until summer 2025. I am sure that coaching a national team at a World Cup is one of his big plans and getting the chance to take responsibility for the Brazilian team sounds like a great opportunity. But if he doesn't give it enough, time it might go wrong big time.

Even the last summer there was much news about Ancelotti leaving the team to Brazil and Real Madrid was also seeking alternative options for this coach but in the lat moments he didn't do that and he preferred to stay in his team However I think there's certainly a higher chance for Ancelotti to this time leave Real Madrid for Brazil which can make improvements in this team.

News of Ancelotti's hiring has been circulating in Brazil for some time now. It's not just a rumor, the CBF's interest in hiring the coach is real. The only thing standing in the way was his contract with Real Madrid
The current coach, Fernando Diniz, is also the coach of Fluminense, who are in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, which shows that he is only an interim coach, and not the long-term coach
The plan for the 2026 World Cup in Brazil is very clear, and it includes coach Ancelotti

And in my opinion, a change in Brazil's style of play is necessary at this time and the coach is used to European players, to the European style, and can bring a lot of progress and evolve the Brazilian team to play in 2026 and have a good World Cup
Brazil's phase is very bad, but I'm not saying that qualification for 2026 is risky because 6 teams will qualify out of the 10 competing for CONMEBOL

I think Ancelotti is a coach who can bring the best out of the team he has been given. I support the move of him managing the Brazilian Squad.

Ancelotti getting the management of Brazilian Squad is something I am looking forward to. He can get the squad to perform and hopefully complete their Hexa. I don't think him not being Brazilian is not going to be a problem for Brazil to recruit him. After all, no other Brazilian coaches are interested or good enough to take the job. Ancelotti should get hold of the Brazilian Squad as soon as possible to start building a squad and prepare for the Hexa mission in 2026 World Cup.

The current state of Brazil's team is very bad. They are in a very bad position in the qualifying phase, how the 2026 World Cup Brazil team will perform is a matter of thought. If we look at the 2022 World Cup Brazil performed very well with every player playing with intensity. However, the condition of the current Brazil team is not very good. They have to come back very quickly. Otherwise, they will not be able to perform well in the 2026 World Cup. It is also doubtful whether Neymar will be able to play in the 2026 World Cup due to injury. If Neymar misses the 2026 World Cup, it will be really bad for the Brazil team. So the Brazil team should turn around from the way they performed in the World Cup qualifiers. Otherwise, 2026 will not bring much success for the Brazil team.

I'm not really sure if Brazil is really serious about recruiting Ancelotti. Throughout history, Brazil has never recruited a coach who is not from their own country. I am sure that with the large amount of talent that Brazil has, they will definitely recruit coaches from their country because if they recruit coaches from other countries, it will have an impact on the characteristics of Brazil's game and this will be detrimental to Brazil in the long run. Moreover, Ancelotti, who is from Italy, is clearly very different from the style of play between Italy and Brazil. Therefore, I am sure that the Brazilian football federation will be more careful in recruiting a new coach because the target is not just to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2026, but how the new coach does not abandon the characteristics of the Brazilian game that they have maintained for years.

Unfortunately they do not have a proper manager to make them be better, they should have one but they do not right now. There are talks that Ancelotti considers a move there after his contract is up this year, and considering we are nearly at January and they haven't done anything about it, I can say that it's quite possible for something like that to happen as well. I believe that we need to reach to a point where they need to just focus on how they could improve and get better.

This is why I believe that we need to end up with a situation that could rely on Ancelotti and him coming there will change so much. He will not rely on any single player, he never does, he will find the best players and make that team as good as they could possibly be, and that's going to be a fine situation for them. I get that it is not that easy to handle, but it is not impossible for him to do it neither, this is a great football nation and he can get the most out of them.

Currently, as team Brazil is having some problems because overall if we check they are still producing one of the best soccer players in the world and dominance is not challengeable but sadly as team we are not having better results from them which is currently the biggest problem, and now they are going to have first non-Brazilian coach which will help them for having improvement into team, and they will be tried to have change of strategy because problem is too many star players are not able to creating room, and they mostly exposed which are not allowing to them for having better results.

Most chances in September they will give charge of coaching to Carlos Ancelotti which will stay for few years, and they will be able to have their dominance back into soccer world which is their trademark for decades.

The Brazilian team nowadays dropped a lot in performance unfortunately at a point they were classed sixth in the ranking in CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers out of 10 teams in total. At the last four games they collected only one point. You can imagine three successive defeats against medium teams a part from Argentina that are playing with them in that competition. You can imagine how bad their results will be if they were playing against European teams.
There is rumours about Ancelotti moving soon to train the Brazilian team. I think they should push for this to avoid seeing them playing bad in the future or even risking to be kicked from FIFA World Cup 2026 although this is hard to think about and unlikely to happen in my opinion.

Is their performance decreasing due to experiencing three consecutive defeats? If that is the assessment, I think it is not completely correct because no matter how strong a team is, it will definitely be possible to experience defeat from any team when they cannot apply appropriate game tactics, and relying completely on Neymar also did not lead them to become a team that succeeded in becoming champions because they failed in Copa America and also the World Cup, even for the world cup they haven't performed well for quite a long time, only making it to the quarter-finals and being eliminated.
The quality of the Brazilian players is very good in the next match they will ensure they win and even without Neymar other players will replace him well and it seems there is nothing to worry about with Brazil.

I am not sure whether there is any decline in the performance of the Brazilian national team. During the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a number of players performed really well, such as Vinícius Júnior, Richarlison and Casemiro. But the other teams have caught up with them. Brazil no longer dominates world football. At this point they are ranked #3 by FIFA, behind Argentina and France. And there is not much gap between fourth placed Belgium and Brazil. England may also overtake them in the future.

It is very sad to see Brazil's current performance. I see them relying heavily on Neymar for their game tactics. In the past, Brazil was very strong in all lines, even their defenders could have the qualities of a striker. In the past, every line was able to score goals and it didn't matter if one or two people were injured because they were still able to show their best performance. I still remember watching Brazil in the 2002 and 2006 World Cups where they performed very well and didn't just rely on one or two players as is happening now.

Yes, Argentina is good team and is the best for CONMEBOL (South America), but that doesn't mean they can defend their 2026 World Cup title because of course there will be quite significant changes.
Having great young players born from every country who can qualify for the World Cup and expecting Argentina to regain the World Cup title in 2026 is too much hope.
We all know that Scaloni is great coach and he is one of the young coaches who successfully led Argentina to win the 2022 World Cup, but that doesn't mean they will remain the strongest because at every World Cup there will always be new name who becomes champion.
Moreover, becoming the defending champion at the World Cup is not as easy as defending the title in other competitions.

It is also not certain that Messi will be able to play in the 2026 World Cup because Scaloni, as Argentina coach, does not guarantee that Messi will remain on Argentina's squad list for this most prestigious event.
After all, he will get older and of course his speed will decrease at the same time as his performance decreases significantly as the ages.

It looks like England, Spain, Germany and France will dominate more and have big chance of winning the 2026 World Cup because they have quite good development at the moment with young players they can rely on.

If we consider the whole tournament Brazil will definitely be the best. And there is no doubt that Brazil is a five-time champion team. But the current state of Brazil's game is very bad. If they continue to perform like the current poor performance of the Brazil team, the reputation that the Brazil team has earned will definitely be tarnished. So Brazil team should make every player play well and prove to the whole world that Brazil is the best through their performance. Brazil team might not be in this situation if neymar was not injured but we hope that before 2026 world cup comes the Brazil team will be well organized and perform well. Argentina team has been performing very well since the 2022 World Cup. His consistency has maintained so far, of course, with some of Argentina's emerging players performing well, with Messi performing brilliantly.

If you consider the whole tournament, which is almost 100 years old, then I would argue Brazil is the best team, having been present in all the world cups (no other country has done this), and also having won it five times (also no other country has done it).

So, yeah, maybe right now Argentina is playing better than Brazil, but things can change over time.

op I agree with you. Of course Messi should talk to Lionel Scaloni personally very soon. Somehow, if Lionel Scaloni leaves the Argentina team before the 2026 World Cup, his departure will definitely be a big loss for the Argentina team. Messi should fix the relationship with Lionel Scaloni for the sake of the Argentina team so that we can see Lionel Scaloni as Argentina's course in the 2026 World Cup. We saw Lionel Scaloni's friendly relationship with Messi in Qatar World Cup. Of course we want Messi's friendly relationship with Lionel Scaloni to continue in the 2026 World Cup.

Argentina is unarguably the best in south America especially with their current squad filled with Young and vibrant talented players who are ready to contend almost any team they will be coming across I'm the world cup, I don't see much weak spot with this team currently and they look very much formidable enough even at international level.

The crisis between Messi and scaloni is one if not handled with care enough will definitely have a great effect on the team but in their psychology and in the long run their performance so it will be fair enough if the management of the team comes to an agreement between this two and ask them both to stay by it. Messi I doubt will be able to stay long enough to be a player in the 2026 world cup so the team should start playing with a tactics that have little to no dependency on Messi just Incase of his absence and this aswell should also be considered in the case between him and scaloni.

I absolutely do not understand this thing between players and coaches. After all, they are professionals. So they should also behave with professionalism and not do these kinds of things which can actually jeopardize the situation of the team.  I also hope that they will sort these things out for the sake of the team. I just do not want to see another repeat of the winner of the World Cup getting knocked out very early. Probably I am thinking about the extreme. But we have seen that happen for quite a few times, and it is definitely not impossible.

There is no doubt about this all but sometime we have issues like these when teams reach at their peak and then things like these bring them down which are really matter of shame, but personal egos create this all and no one want to let down himself which is another problem, but currently we are having things in early stages if these both parties sit and settle their issues then surely we can expect positive move for the Argentinean soccer otherwise consequences can be worst in coming days with their current situation is important as they are having good success and things can go more good in the future.

Lionel Scaloni is one of the best man on duty, and he can bring more achievements for the country with his strategy and mentality which is good, but Lionel Messi is the legendary player so currently he needs to understand this all and end his issues for the country.