Carlo Ancelotti Announces 'Brazil Will Become Champions Again', Excludes Neymar

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 08:40 IST

Carlo Ancelotti, the caller manager of the Brazil nationalist team, volition marque his debut successful the World Cup qualifiers successful June and has already selected his archetypal squad for those matches.

Brazil shot squad manager Carlo Ancelotti (AP)

Carlo Ancelotti, connected Monday, ruled injury-plagued Neymar retired of Brazil’s lineup for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers and vowed to pb the squad to a sixth rubric connected his archetypal time arsenic Selecao coach.

Former Real Madrid manager Ancelotti is the archetypal non-Brazilian successful six decades to manager the grounds five-time World Cup winners.

“I americium precise arrogant to pb the champion squad successful the world. I person a large occupation up and large anticipation that Brazil volition go champions again," helium said during his authoritative presumption astatine a edifice successful Rio de Janeiro.

“The lone extremity is to triumph the 2026 World Cup," helium added, aft receiving a green-and-yellow coach’s overgarment from Luiz Felipe Scolari, the manager who led Brazil to its past World Cup triumph successful 2002.

At 65, the Italian prima manager, with 5 Champions League titles nether his belt, is taking the reins of a nationalist squad for the archetypal time.

Expectations are precocious successful football-mad Brazil that helium tin revive the squad’s fortunes.

To that end, helium announced the instrumentality of Manchester United midfielder and erstwhile Brazil skipper Casemiro for June’s qualifiers against Ecuador and Paraguay, alongside Real Madrid prima Vinicius Jr. and Barcelona winger Raphinha.

Ancelotti is Brazil’s 4th manager successful 2 years, facing a formidable task.

“Brazil was benignant of decaying and needed that small airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel. I deliberation helium is that light," said Jose Geraldo Da Silva, a 65-year-old retiree, waiting extracurricular the Rio edifice to drawback a glimpse of the caller trainer.

Brazil has struggled successful 2026 World Cup qualifying and sacked Dorival Junior successful March aft a humiliating 4-1 thrashing by determination arch-rivals Argentina.

Ancelotti volition statesman his tenure connected June 5 against Ecuador successful Guayaquil and volition big Paraguay successful Sao Paulo connected the 10th.

While ruling retired Neymar for the fixtures, Ancelotti said, “obviously we’re counting connected him" for the future.

In his past crippled for Brazil successful October 2022, which ended successful a 2-0 decision to Uruguay, Neymar suffered a superior genu wounded and has not worn his country’s colours since then.

Casemiro, 33, who has besides not been called up since October 2022, is returning to the squad.

Speaking successful Spanish peppered with a fewer words of Portuguese, which helium promised to rapidly learn, Ancelotti said Casemiro would bring “charisma, property and talent."

New wunderkind Estevao, 18, acceptable to articulation Chelsea from Sao Paulo’s Palmeiras, was besides called up.

But injured Real Madrid forwards Rodrygo and Endrick did not marque the list.

Brazil is presently successful 4th spot successful the South American qualifying array for adjacent year’s tourney successful the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

The nationalist shot federation (CBF) spent 2 years wooing Ancelotti to effort to crook the leafage connected years of disappointment for the nationalist broadside and its fans.

The Selecao person lone made it arsenic acold arsenic the World Cup semi-final erstwhile retired of the past 5 tournaments—in 2014 against Germany, who gave the World Cup hosts a historical 7-1 thrashing connected location soil.

Ancelotti’s accomplishment coincides with a play of turbulence for the CBF itself.

On Sunday, it elected a caller president, Samir Xaud, aft the erstwhile boss, Ednaldo Rodrigues, was dismissed by a tribunal implicit suspicions of forgery successful his employment contract.

“May Christ the Redeemer bless the accomplishment of our Mr. Carlo Ancelotti, truthful helium tin unafraid a highly coveted sixth satellite title," Xaud said successful invited to Ancelotti, to whom helium vowed “total autonomy."

Ancelotti’s caller relation comes with a wage bundle of astir 10 cardinal euros ($11.4 million) a year, according to section media.

(With inputs from AFP)

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