Lula, president of Brazil, resigns: “We no longer have the best team in the world”

The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvasaid it was Tuesday Brazil the best football in the world is gone and it is regrettable that the national team continues without a coach since being dismissed from Qatar World Cup 2022. “Brazilian soccer is not good. We no longer have the best soccer in the world. We have become an exporter of young soccer players who get experience abroad,” the Brazilian leader, a known soccer fan, said in a live broadcast on the social network.

Lula the clubs are already stressed Brazil they send 17-year-old players abroad and send them home when they are 34, the new “logic of Brazilian soccer.”

“That’s why I regret that our team is not ready to play big events,” he added, referring to the fact that the five-time world champion won his last title more than 20 years ago, in 2002 World Cup.

He specifically mentioned the loss suffered by the Brazilian under-20 team this month against Israel in the quarterfinals of Argentina World Cup. He insists that this defeat cannot be explained to a team with players with professional experience. “It’s sad that we have a team that is considered the best in the world and now we don’t have a coach. The worst is that we haven’t been able to put together a good team because we don’t have quality players like the ones we had in the 1970s,” he assured.

Regarding the clubs he is a fan of, he said Corinthians, Brazil’s second most popular team, are “ruining” and Vasco da Gama, currently in the relegation zone, are not doing well either. Corinthians “do not play well” and watching their games “makes you want to lie on the sofa and not get up in shame,” he said. “My Basque is not playing well. I am from the Basque Country and I fight a lot with Janja (his current wife) who is from Flamengo,” he concluded.