Italian technical director Carlo Ancelottitoday working on the real Madridwill be the coach of the selected Brazil from the 2024 Copa América, confirmed sources from the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
Ancelotti, 64, will make his debut at the helm of the five-time champions in the Copa América in the United States (between June 20 and July 14, 2024), once his current contract with the Madrid team expires, AFP reported.
For now, the Brazilian Fernando Diniz, current coach of Fluminense de Rio de Janeiro, will direct Brazil on FIFA dates.
Diniz, 49, will lead the Brazilian team in the debut in the qualifying round for the United States, Mexico and Canada World Cup 2026before Bolivia and Peru in coming September.
“He is a coach whose proposal is similar to that of the coach who will take over after the Copa América,” said the president of the CBF, Ednaldo Rodrigues, according to Globo Esporte.
Two decades without winning World Cups
The hiring of ancelotti It is a bet by the CBF to try to put an end to more than two decades without winning the highest soccer trophy, the last one in South Korea and Japan-2002.
The Italian will guide the ‘Canarinha’ on the road to the 2026 World Cup, where the five-time champions will seek to win the elusive sixth world title.
With the idea of reconciling the people with the national team, the president of the CBF proposed to sign a coach whose figure did not admit debate.
Although it will be his first experience as a national team coach, he was assistant to Arrigo Sacchi in Italy that lost the 1994 World Cup final to Brazil, Ancelotti is an indisputable coach.
The Italian has 26 titles in three decades of career as DT, including the records of having won four European Champions Leagues and the five main European leagues (Germany, Spain, France, England and Italy).
The first foreign DT from Brazil was the Portuguese Jorge Gomes Lima (Joreca) in 1914. Later, the Argentine Filpo Núñez held the position, between 1964 and 1965.
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