Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 39. (Read 62712 times)

Ronaldinho's spot on. Brazil's been sleepwalking. You look at that golden era, Ronaldo, Kaka, Ronaldinho himself... those guys were magic. Now? It's like watching paint dry. Dorival Junior's a decent manager, but he's a band-aid, not a cure. He's good at quick fixes, not long-term vision. That's what Brazil needs: someone to build a dynasty, not just win a few games

Look at the talent on that squad. It's insane. But talent alone doesn't win World Cups. You need a system, a philosophy, a leader who can make those guys play like a team, not a collection of superstars. Other countries have figured it out. Look at Spain a few years back, or Germany. They built systems, not just teams. Brazil needs to do the same. It's not about finding the next Neymar, it's about creating the next great Brazilian team. That takes time, patience, and a manager with a vision. Right now, they're missing all three

that's what I've always thought too, it's incredible how Brazil manages to churn out talents one after the other without stopping, football is in their veins and we can only agree with your words, they are always there and in my opinion with a good coach they will also be able to win it, both through history and determination they came very close and I think they will succeed soon!

Brazil will always be one of the best teams in the world. That's just how it is.

They are the only team to have qualified to every single world cup, and they have won it the most times.

They always end up at the top or very close to it in every qualification.

The world cup is of course difficult, and specially in the second round you only need to have one bad game and you're out, so it's a difficult thing, but Brazil will always be fighting for the world cup.

Brazil still has some of the best young players in the world. The country has the potential to discover unknown talents that become superstars within a short period. Even now, Vinicius is not the only quality player; there are Rodrygo and  Endrick, who are doing well in their respective clubs. The national team has had some difficulties in recent times, which have led to the dominance of the Argentina national team. They might not have all the superstars playing in Europe, but I bet there are many unknown stars in the Brazilian local league.

Yes, Brazil is starting to lose one by one its star players, but they also include several names of young players with quite good potential, now almost 80% of Brazilian players are young players who have successfully developed well and have quite brilliant careers.
Brazil development may not be seen so quickly and for the 2026 World Cup later I not sure Brazil will be able to show big surprise with all the young players they have, but I believe they will be able to slowly improve the quality of their performance and become stronger team over time.
Brazil performance can really reach top performance, possibly in the 2030 or 2034 World Cup if they can really be on the right track like in the past when Brazil was one of the strongest team for each edition of the World Cup.
In this qualifying round match, maybe we can still see Brazil performing very well, and hopefully they can qualify as we hope and provide competitive competition for the real competition.

It is obvious that Brazil Era is fading away in football and that is why we are not seeing more of their young stars that are capable of winning the world cup for  Brazil. They don't have great players like before and it seems that Brazil is not taking football that serious like those days when they were the best in football.

On the other hand, maybe so many countries interest for football is now very high and many players are coming from those countries and outshines Brazil players, making them to lose interest and passion of maintaining their football standards.

I dont know what to think about this Brazilian team, they have very good players, but i still think they keep missing the internal fire and the magic of others brazilians generations, i dont know but Vinicius doesnt have that "aura" or soul and the whole team lack of that faith.

Plus the management is being very poor for a top national team like Brazil. They dont find the north since a few years, and for worst Argentina is in his peak.

Brazil do have some good players on their squad there is absolutely no doubt about that. From goalkeeper to striker, every position is great and even without Neymar they are fine, so I agree that it must be the manager that's the problem.

However, since Tite left, they have trying to find someone and they constantly keep getting nobody they like. They tried their chance with Menezes, failed there in very games, then got Diniz, sacked him after just few, and now they have Dorival.

None of these managers are big names neither, I feel like if they could get someone big, they could do a lot better. They did send an offer to Ancelotti, before Ancelotti renewed his contract of course, and because he had a connection with Vini too, so they tried their chance, but Ancelotti decided to renew his contract with Real Madrid of course. The moment they hire someone who is a world famous coach, they will be fine. Hell even USA is hiring Pochettino, so Brazil should get someone better too.

Brazil is getting empty of superstar players while they have players like Rivaldo and Donland before and now the only chance they have is Vini Jr while even though he is not enough to help everything in this team.
The recent performances we saw from Brazil were not good at all to say they can have good performance in the 2025 World Cup and it seems we can even expect to see one of the worst performances we ever saw from Brazil.
 

On 15th June 2024, Brazil and Barcelona legend Ronaldinho's speech about the Brazil team I don't think he allowed himself to be exposed to the media or spotlighted. Basically he gave that speech out of the anger that was building up inside him. Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Brazil lost to their arch-rivals Argentina in the final match of the Copa America, and since then their team's poor performances have started. As a result of which they did not show any brilliant performance in the Qatar FIFA World Cup as well due to which they were knocked out in the quarter finals despite being a five-time World Cup winning team in that World Cup as well. We have seen them perform poorly in this year's Copa America as well. Maybe the legendary players are angry because of the reckless performances of the young Brazilian players.

brazil has plenty of champions who can decide the matches if only they are all well organized and educated on what they have to do it will be a walk in the park for brazil to win some international trophies (if argentina managed it) everyone can do it so just enough Thinking about Real Madrid's phenomena to understand what they can do with those players, it's just a question of time

We have two options regarding Ronaldinho's speech: one is that he wanted to attract the spotlight and appear in the media, and the other is that he was being sincere. I believe more in the latter option. I understand him, after all, he played in a great Brazilian team with Ronaldo Nazario, Kaka, Adriano, Roberto Carlos, Dida and so many other legendary players... And watching this current team is almost torture. Dorival Junior, as a club coach, has always been a short-term coach, like saving the club from relegation or fixing squads with relationship problems. I don't believe he has the ability to take a team to the top of the world.

I think Ronaldinho comments should be used as a material for introspection, I believe it is a fact, regardless of the background that prompted the Barcelona legend to say it. Ronaldinho clarification of his comments also indicates that the Brazilian National Team is indeed in chaos, I think all the chaos comes from the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF). We know that the Brazilian National Team is a favorite in every competition, their fan base is quite large, of course their support is also very large. Brazil's failure to reach the final in the Copa America is at least the latest evidence, for Ronaldinho comments.

In addition, the depth of the squad that Brazil has is every manager dream, almost every line is filled with star players, by appointing a quality and experienced manager will certainly increase their chances in the future. If I'm not mistaken, Dorival Junior is still the current manager of the Brazilian National Team. On the other hand, the continuation of the World Cup qualifying round in the CONMEBOL zone can be used as a reference to assess Brazil strength, they will face Colombia who were the finalists of the Copa America yesterday.

No doubt in current situation we are having Saudi Arab as one of the weakest side in top rankings because Japan, Iran, Korea and Australia are having much better teams, and they can take good advantage of their quality and consistency, but things are also going good in Saudi Arab as they are doing their best on domestic level.

We are having the biggest issue with conditions and domestic level is needed good overhaul which is not easy but still as they are investing and having their long run vision we can expect they will be brought their best in coming years and things will be completely change.

Now we have 2 years in world cup and most chances we will be having these teams into this event with Qatar and Saudi Arab are coming being these teams, and they are having challenging matches due to improved structure in few big countries which is important for the development of the game.

Brazil may have quality players but we have not seen in Brazil till now the quality manager to control those quality players. I still vividly remember Neymar's goal in extra time against Croatia in the 2022 World Cup quarter-final match that almost sealed the team's victory but the former Brazil manager at the time did not alert any player to come down which resulted in their penalty shoot-out loss to Croatia. Due to some such wrong decisions, several Brazilian media said that there is no need to keep such a manager in the team with so much money, as a result of which the manager is forced to step down from his position. Carlo Ancelotti was rumored for some time to take charge of Brazil but ultimately the deal was not completed and it remains to be seen whether Brazil can appoint a qualified manager for their team ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Didn't Ronaldinho backtrack on his comments though[1]? He basically said what he said about those players are a bait to get people talk about it seriously. Not sure what to take from his comment. Even if we say the team is one of the worst team ever, surely the fault lies in the player selection/manager instead of the players? Because if that's not valid, how can we say the country is full of great players. Personally, I feel like a team with terrible tactic is a better term to describe Brazil, if there's no change at all in the future. CMIIW.

[1] https://sports.yahoo.com/barcelona-legend-ronaldinho-backtracks-brazil-083000967.html

Well many have said such a thing, it's strange, for me Brazil has very good players, of course the only one who still has the "joga bonito" is Neymar Jr and I don't know if things can be done better, but for me the question here of the Brazil problem is a coach who can Integrate all the skills of the players and do magic with them, it's incredible, for me the most important thing is that a team has good players, and they're not bad, they're very good, so I think that things should go in the right direction and only a good coach can achieve that, for me that's the solution for Brazil.

I think he was quite sincere when he said it was the worst team ever. I've been following the Brazilian team since 1996, and I've watched several generations of players and several different Brazilian teams. And I say that this current Brazilian team is truly the worst of all time. It manages to surpass the horrible teams from the time of coach Emerson Leao and Mano Menezes... It's sad to see a country full of potential in football and that produces some of the best players in the world have such a mediocre team.

National team and domestic league are completely different things with if they want to have improvement in national team they need to work on their system with youth competitions and other related stuff can bring good improvement because its also works.

But this needed good dedication and strong management even they are now changing many things in this country which are positive but it's still going to take time because we can't bring changes in few years as things are going on for centuries new generation is having good motivations, and they are stick about their vision which is good point right now.

AFC can bring good changes even this is not easy but if they are able then surely we can have good revolutionary development in this region's soccer because if AFC able to bring all countries on one table and having their one or two events for all countries like UEFA also help them for having their domestic leagues well organized this is surely brought good revenue and other things which are essential for them and this region could be having good potential for soccer.

Because, we have this is second most popular sport in this region after cricket which is having strong base in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but they can bring good for all regions specially in West and Central which are already doing good work for the development of this game.

Brazil this time will have 2 matches for world cup qualification stages and they will fight against Ecuador at home and playing against Paraguay for away match and just like we all know that Brazil is not in the good shape because after failed in Copa America their position on league table of qualification stages also not really good because Brazil only can earn 7 points from 6 matches so the fans hopes Brazil can gets full points from Ecuador and Paraguay

Recently Brazil has been release the players who will playing against Ecuador and Paraguay and i found interesting name Estêvão and he is the rising star of Palmeiras and still 17 years old but his performance with Palmeiras is very impressive because he can scores 8 goals from 21 matches and looking forward to see whether he will make his debut match or not later and here is the list of Brazilian players below