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Quote from: Ale88 on August 27, 2025, 03:34:38 AM

The names on the list are simply dreadful, I don't know how else describe them. Of course it's not Ancelotti's fault, those are the players Brazil is currently producing. Once they had Roberto Carlos and then Marcelo, now there is Alex Sandro. They used to have defenders like Lucio and Thiago Silva and now the best one is Marquinhos, which is very good, but not as good the the others I mentioned. Midfielders? Players like Juninho Pernambucano often times weren't even called because they had better players, now he would be by far the best midfielder. And maybe it's better not to talk about the strikers: the fact that a 33 year old Neymar is the best attacking player they have speaks volume. Let's see if Raphinha keeps playing like he did last season.

Carlo Ancelotti has what it takes to do well, we don't understand some of his choices but he certainly had his reasons.
He has successfully coached teams of the calibre of Real Madrid for many years, and i think he will be able to do well with Brazil too.
I am very sure of it.

Clearly Ancelotti wants to experiment because Brazil will qualify at the World Cup, so he's calling up several different players to test them. It makes sense since he is a new manager and he also has to get to know the players, creating a personal relationship with them without feeling anyone already excluded from the project. What I was pointing out was the low level of these names, that is not Ancelotti's fault of course, those are the players he has available right now, it simply shows how bad the Brazilian national team is right now.

That's interesting perspective, and It is a wise thing to do if he's experimenting with this players to know which player he will be using in the upcoming world cup competition in US, Canada and Mexico because the current state of the Brazilian national team really looks concerning with the list of the players called up which has sparked debate.

It's nothing new at the end, many new managers call up players they never even talked to because they want to understand how they are as a person, not only as football player. Unfortunately some players are bad apples and they want to avoid that situation. I remember for example Balotelli with Italy and Benzema with France, just to name a few.