“Ancelotti? It’s easy to train Real Madrid, it’s hard to train Corinthians”

The president of BrazilLuiz Inacio Lula da Silvacriticized this Thursday on a local television channel the appointment of the Italian Carlo Ancelotti in charge of the Brazil team from 2024. “I respect Ancelotti, but he has not been the coach of Italy. Why does he not solve the problem of Italy, “Didn’t he participate in the last World Cup?” he asked himself in an interview last Thursday night on the SBT channel.

The technician of real Madrid He was selected on Tuesday to manage the ‘Seleçao’ of Copa América 2024, from June 20 to July 14, a source from the Brazilian Football Confederation told AFP. Until then, Fernando Diniz, the coach of Fluminense, the Brazilian D1 club, is on the ‘Auriverde’ bench.

“I’m a fan of Diniz (…) He has personality, creativity and he’s in charge of the locker room,” said Lula. Indeed, despite a more than brilliant career in Europe, Carlo Ancelotti has never managed a national team. “It is very easy to lead a team in Europe with eleven international players. The difficult thing is to come here and lead Corinthians (at the gates of the relegation zone). I want to see if Ancelotti is good in this case,” said president leftist

Lula does not see a squad of the quality of the previous ones

Diniz, 49, will start on the Brazilian bench in September, in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, with matches against Bolivia and Peru. However, Lula doubts that he can “put together a good team.” According to him, Brazil does not have a ‘very good’ generation of players at the moment.

In fact, the ‘Seleçao’ is fighting to regain its past glory, the last world title was built in 2002. “The problem is not Diniz, the problem is that now we don’t have the quality of players that we have in other times,” he lamented.

In Qatar, during the last World Cup, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Croatians on penalties. And the competition was won by his archrival Argentina.