The president questioned the footballers who play in Europe and urged the coach to call those who stand out at the local level.
The president of Brazil, Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silvaargued about the present of his country’s soccer team and questioned the team’s poor performance in the South American Qualifiers. The president considered that none of the players “is a star.”
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“Outside of Brazil there is no Garrincha, nor Romario. There are many young people, but none of them are a star“Lula said in an interview with O Povo CBN radio in Fortaleza.
In that sense, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the level shown by Marquinhos, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Alissonsome of the team’s leaders, and attacked: “The footballers who are out They are no better than the ones here“.
In relation to this, the president highlighted the local soccer players and stressed that those who play abroad, in some of the most prestigious teams in the world, do not stand out: “I have been proposing for a long time that the Brazilian team have players who play in the country. The two players who scored the goals on Thursday play in the Brazilian championship. We have to give opportunities to the players here, no to outside guests“.
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“I was on the couch watching the game and I recognized the archer (Ederson), at the center of the PSG (Marquinhos), to Rodrygo already Raphinha, who I recognized by his hair. I didn’t know the players, and that can’t be. Call for selection players who play herein the Brazilian championship,” he emphasized.
The weak present of the Brazilian team in the Qualifiers
Lula is not the only Brazilian dissatisfied with the team’s present, since individual and collective performances have long been disappointing. Furthermore, the numbers indicate that it is the worst campaign for the “Canarinha” since the Qualifiers have this format.
In 2023, they were already accumulating unprecedented defeats, such as the 1-0 loss against Argentina that marked the first at home in the history of the Qualifiers. That same year, when the coach was still Fernando Dinizfell on dates 4, 5 and 6, before Uruguay, Colombia and the aforementioned match against the “Scaloneta”.
Source: Ambito
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