The Brazilian team will face Morocco on March 25 in a friendly in Tangier. It will be the first game for both teams since the World Cup in Qatar and the ‘canarinha’ will be led by Ramón Menezes, who was named interim coach today after leading the Under 20s to win the category’s South American Championship on Sunday, while the Search the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is still Tite’s replacement.
Adenor Leonardo Bacchi ‘Tite’ has resigned as Brazilian coach following December’s elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup after losing on penalties in the quarterfinals against Croatia.
The CBF announced in a statement that the ‘canarinha’ will be temporarily led by Menezes, who led the Under 20 team to the category’s South American title, a title that Brazil has not won since 2011, without losing a single match.
No elite experience
Menezes, 50, has led a long list of mediocre Brazilian teams and before assuming the Under 20 team he had two short spells at the helm of Vasco da Gama in 2020 and Vitoria de Bahia in 2021.
Menezes is the interim solution given the CBF’s delay in finding Tite’s replacement and amid reports the body wants a foreign coach but has not reached an agreement with the technicians it has spoken to so far.
An agreement with Ancelotti was rejected
Last week, the CBF denied that it had an agreement with Real Madrid’s coach, Italian Carlo Ancelotti, and confirmed that all information disclosed about a possible replacement for Tite was no more than “speculation”.
The Brazilian press has speculated for weeks about Tite’s possible successor and mentioned as candidates the Spaniard Luis Enrique, the French Zinedine Zidane or the Portuguese José Mourinho, Abel Ferreira and Jorge Jesus, in addition to Ancelotti.
The CBF in its statement described as “the beginning of a new cycle for the team” the March 25 friendly to be held at the Ibn Batouta stadium in Tangier, the venue of the recent Club World Cup.
Just one match in the March window
The governing body of Brazilian soccer emphasized that the rival is one of the semifinalists of the Qatar 2022 World Cup and made it clear that Brazil will play only one friendly in the March FIFA window as it will devote the rest of the time to improve preparations. to its players..
“The FIFA date window for the friendlies will be split between the preparation of the players and the match against Morocco. Because of this, the CBF has chosen a single friendly, but with a high level of competition,” according to the entity’s statement .
The president of the CBF, Ednaldo Rodrigues, assured that, for the start of a new cycle, the ‘canarinha’ will face a “strong opponent”, having reached the semifinals of the World Cup in Qatar, where he considers “it is will be a good test for the team and a game that piques the interest of the fans”.
Morocco-Peru in the Metropolitan
On the other hand, Morocco has set a second friendly in the March window as on the 28th they will face Peru at the Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.
Source: La Verdad
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