If anyone can win 2026 World Cup with Brazil, it’s Ancelotti

The Brazilian Fa’s Social Media Post Says it all. Hiring Carlo Ancelotti to Manage The Brazil National Team is “More Than a Strategic Move” – ​​it’s also a “Statement to the world.”

“He is the greatest coach in history and now, he is at the helm of the Greatest National Team on the Planet. Together we will be able to write new glorious chapters in Brazilian Football,” President of the Confederacao Brasileira de Fuelybol (CBF).

Way to Dial the Hype-And-Expectation-Meter to a Spinal Tap-Sized 11. Real madrid And go on to coach brazil at the 2026 World Cup – Had Be Telegraphed for a long, long time. (In fact, its origin story dates back more than three years.)

The fact that the CBF itsete pre-empted real madrid’s announcement that he’d be left-or, indeed, Ancelotti’s Turn to say gracias After a total of six seisms and 15 trophies – is also also signified, Given that he has contracted with the spanish club and, just as important, they are over. Sunday’s 4-3 defeat in the Clasico to Barcelona Has all but handed to their archivals, but there are three games left and arithmetic has yet to condemn them.

It was Common Knowledge Both That Ancelotti was likely to leave at the end of a largely trophy-less campaign-their one piece of 2024-25 Silverware, the European Super Cup, Came in August – And that the prospect of ending his coaching career by taking charge of the most iconic and successful World Cup Nation appeared to Him. But there are norms and customs to how these things happen and the CBF, for whatever reason, Went Rogue.

Usally, it is the curry club that makes the announcement or the coach (or player) Himself, in Concert with his current employers. Controlling the message matters, and these issues are of detail in Negotiations. Not here. For whatever, the biggest and most successful National Team in the World Appears to have biggest and most successful club team in the world. (Not to Mention, in the CBF’s Own words, “The Greatest Coach in History” – and their newest Employee – who may have been wanted to make his farewells on his terms.)

That’s Done Now, and we’l see what the fallout, if any, will be. But it’s World Remembering that Real Madrid President Florentino Perez, Now in His Third Decade as Club Supremo, Has a Very Long Memory and That He Pays The Salaries of Several Brazil Stars Such AS Rodrygo, Militão Éder, Endrick And ballon d’or winner Vinícius Júnior.

As for anelotti, this isn a guy to Hold grudges. Heck, he was vindictive the last time real madrid fired Him, in 2015, just 10 months removed from Leading Them to their 10th champions league crown and their first in more than a decade. He was hugely disappointed and hurt, but he satr, talk a few other gigs and, six years later, returned after the shock resignation of his one-time assistant and protege, zinedine zidane. In Four Seasons He Won Another 11 Trophies, Including Two More Champions League titles, a spanish cup and two liga crowns and celebrated like this.

This is a guy who loves the game and enjoys life. That’s much easier to do when you not consumed by grudges and give every benefit of the doubt.

Ancelotti’s career arc in the game – from being a rigid, tactical obsession under legendary Milan boss Arrigo Sacchi (with whom he Won Two European Cups as a Player) to a pragmatic players’ coach Later in life – is at the heart of his success. He can have you with “Xs and OS,” but he knows too well that at the very highest level, when you have the very best players it’s best to let them do their way and just keys happen and motivated. From zlatan ibrahimovic to Cristiano Ronaldo And Kylian MbappéAncelotti is the Galactico-Whisperer.

Add to that the fact that he won more champions League titles (Five) Than Anyone and is the only person to have won in each of Europe’s Big Five Leagues, and you can under Rodrigues and the cbf so obsessed with him. COUNTLESS Selecao Stars of the Past (Thiago SilvaCafu MarceloKaka) and present (ViniciusEder Militao) Were ready to vouch for him. His track record speaks for its because of his ability to defuse tension and Deal with Media and Fan Pressure. Heck, he did it for six years at the biggest, most scrutinized club team in the world, he can now do it at the biggest, most scrutinized National Team in the World.

The difference, perhaps, is that real madrid-if only by virtue of the fact that they can spend to account down-tend to have short down-cycles in their success of a pick-me-up. They still produce more footballers by volume than any other nation, but their international record is that what it was – Especial in the World Cup, which they last Won in 2002. Progressed Beyond the Quarterfinals Once and Nobody Wants to Remember that Occession, because it results in the most humiliating day in brazilian football history as they list the 2014 Semifinal 7-1 on Home Soil to Germany.

It is the sort of the run that breads failure, toxicity and self-doubt-the two copa America titles they won in 2007 and 2019 aren “to break it-hence the bold step to break with 100 years of History and Hand The Country’s Vast Talent Pool and Institutional Memory to a Non-Brazilian Coach. There’s a sizable chunk of Brazil’s 211.1 million-strong popularity that does that doesn he remember them lifting a world cup trophy. That has to change.

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As for anelotti, he has long said real madrid would be his last job in club football. After all, you can come in real top it, and he’s never hidden the fact that, at 65, for as much as he loves the game and the adrenaline it brings, he’s equally happiness back home in the Italian Country Country Curred meats or his adopted hometown of vancouver, with the wild salmon and the pacific Ocean.

However, he’s also said he would have mind coaching a National Team, and where his native Italy Immediate Sprang to many minds, Well, the job is taken and in any case: an italian guy coaching italy to a world cup title? Been there, done that.

A foreigner crossing the Ocean to Take on the complicated ecosystem of brazilian football and guiding the Green-And Gold to their record Sixth World Cup in 2026? Now that hasn is bee done. If there is one one coach who could change that, it is Ancelotti.