If someone can win the 2026 World Cup with Brazil, it is Ancelotti

Brazilian makes it Social media posts He says it all. Take Carlo Ancelotti to manage the Brazil The national team is “more than a strategic move” – ​​it is also a “declaration in the world”.

“He is the greatest coach in history, and now he is at the helm of the largest national team on the planet. Together we will write new glorious chapters in Brazilian football,” said Ednaldo Rodrigues, president of Confederação Brazilira de Futebol (CBF).

Way to compose the hype-and-espection-meter up to a Tiplo Spinale 11. Then again, a little hyperbole was probably necessary since this movement-ancelotti departing real Madrid And going into training in Brazil at the 2026 World Cup – he had been telegraped for a long, long time. (In fact, its history of origin dates back to more than three years.)

The fact that the CBF itself prevented the announcement of Real Madrid who would have left – or, in fact, Ancelotti’s turn to say Gracias After a total of six seasons and 15 trophies – it is also significant, since he has another year on his contract with the Spanish club and, equally important, their season has not ended. The 4-3 defeat on Sunday in Clasic TO Barcelona He almost delivered the title to their archives, but three games remained and arithmetic has yet to condemn them.

It was known whether Ancelotti would probably have left at the end of a campaign largely without trophies-their piece of silverware 2024-25, the UEFA Super Cup, arrived in August-and that the prospect of putting an end to his coaching career taking charge of the nation of the most iconic and successful world cup. But there are rules and customs on how these things happen and the CBF, for any reason, has become a rogue.

Usually, it is the current club that announces or is the same coach (or player), in concert with his current employers. Check the issues of the message and these problems are often discussed in detail in negotiations. Not here. For any reason, the largest and most successful national team in the world seems to have made a bigger foot the largest and most successful club team in the world. (Not to mention the fact that, with the same words as the CBF, “the greatest coach in history” – and their new employee – who may have wanted to do his loves for his conditions.)

This is done now and we will see what the relapse will be. But it is worth remembering that the president of Real Madrid Florentino Perez, now in his third decade as a supreme club, has a very long memory and that pays the salaries of several Brazilian stars such as Rodrygo, Éder Militão, Endrick and the best winner of FIFA Vinícius Júnior.

As for Ancelotti, this is not a boy to keep rancori. Diamine, it was not the last time the last time that Real Madrid fired him, in 2015, only 10 months moved from taking them to their tenth crown of the Champions League and their first in more than a decade. He was extremely disappointed and wounded, but sat tight, he made some other concerts and, six years later, he returned after the shock resignation of his assistant of the past and the protégé, Zinedine Zidane. In four seasons, he won 11 other trophies, including two other Champions League titles, a Spanish cup and two laiga crowns e Celebrated in this way.

This is a boy who loves game and loves life. It is much easier to do when you are not consumed by the grudges and give everyone the benefit of doubt.

Ancelotti’s career arch in the game – from being a rigid and tactical obsessive under the legendary boss of Milan Arrigo Sacchi (with whom he won two European cups as a player) to a pragmatic coach of the players later in life – is at the center of his success. It can beat you with “XS and OS”, but it knows too well that at the highest levels, when you have the best players it is better to allow them to do their things and keep them happy and motivated. From Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Cristiano Ronaldo AND Kylian mbappéAncelotti is the Galactic-Whisperer.

Add to this the fact that he has won more Champions League titles (five) than anyone else and is the only person to have won each of the five European championships as a coach, and you can understand what Ednaldo Rodrigues and the CBF has made it obsessed with him. Countless seleção stars from the past (Thiago Silva, Cafu, Marcelo, Kaka) and present (Vinícius, Éder Militão) They were ready to guarantee for him. His track record speaks alone, as well as his ability to defuse the tension and face the media and pressure of the fans. Heck, he did it for six years in the largest and most toll -free club team in the world; Now he can do it in the largest and most scrutinized national team in the world.

The difference, perhaps, is that Real Madrid-even if only by virtue of the fact that they can spend money to acquire talents-treats to have short cycles in their success, while Brazil has a serious need for a pick-me. They produce even more footballers in volume of any other nation, but their international record is not the one who was at the World Cup, who won the last time in 2002. Since then, they have progressed only once more than the quarter-finals and nobody wants to remember that occasion, because he led to the most humiliating day in the history of Brazilian football while they lost the 2014 semifinal on the land of home for home Germany.

It is the type of race that raises bankruptcy, toxicity and insecurity-the two titles of Copa America who won in 2007 and in 2019 are not sufficient to break it-to which the bold step to break with 100 years of history and deliver the vast pool of talents of the country and the institutional memory to a non-Brazilian coach. There is a considerable part of the Brazilian population of 211.1 million people who do not remember having raised a trophy of the World Cup. This must change.

As for Ancelotti, he said for a long time that Real Madrid would be his latest work in club football. After all, you cannot really do it, and he has never hidden the fact that, at 65, although you love the game and the adrenaline he brings, it is equally happy at home in the Italian countryside surrounded by healed meat or in his hometown adopted of Vancouver, with wild salmon and the Pacific Ocean.

However, he also said he wouldn’t mind training a national team and while his native Italy He immediately served in many minds, well, the work is done. In addition, an Italian boy who trains Italy to the world cup title? I have been there.

A foreigner who crosses the ocean to face the complicated ecosystem of Brazilian football and guide the green and gold to their sixth world record in 2026? Now it has not been done. If there is a coach who might change it, it is Ancelotti.