The Brazilians, in the words of striker Raphinha, would “bend” in the Argentines in the confrontation between the teams, by the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, on Tuesday (25), in Buenos Aires. Inside and, if necessary, outside the field.
An unnecessary and unintelligent statement from the great Barcelona player. Brazil would play away from home, against a superior team and very strong individually, which would have the support of over 80,000 fans at Monumental Stadium.
It served nothing for the Canarinho National Team and served to give an even greater injection to the Alviceleste National Team.
Brazil took “beating”, only on the field, because fortunately, despite one or the other push and verbal disagreement among the players, there was the awareness of no physical aggression.
A 4 to 1 that will be remembered for a long time, not only by the elastic score, but for the way it happened. Dorival Júnior’s national team did not see the ball. The Argentines could have put six, seven goals, size the domain, such superiority. Brazil “found” its goal, in a mistake of a defender.
At the end of the game, it was only spoken to end the Dorival era in the national team. In almost a year and three months in office, with 16 games played (12 valid for competition), the coach could not give a tactical pattern to the team.
Regardless of the climbed, Brazil looks like a catadão. Players with recognized individual talent play nothing collectively.
There is no rehearsed play (with rolling ball or set ball), there is no triangulation, there is no compaction between the sectors. If this has been trained during this Dorival time in charge, execution does not work.
And it’s no exception. It never works, not only before Argentina. There is something very wrong.
Ah! But with Dorival, in these 16 games, Brazil was defeated in only two: by Argentines this week, and by Paraguayans, in September 2024, also by the qualifiers.
Yes, but lost an America’s Cup on the way (eliminated on penalties by Uruguay) and won less than half of these 16 games (seven).
Also, when the selection was convincing? No 4-0 against Peru, in Brasilia, last October? Perhaps. But the first two goals came in penalty kicks. And curiously, two of the players who scored in that match (Andreas Pereira and Luiz Henrique) were not even called Dorival now.
It is evident that Dorival did not find the appropriate “pieces” for the national team, did not form a base team, especially from the middle to the back. And after the vexation in Buenos Aires, expectation is created-with media pressure-to be fired.
Is it a solution to change the technician again (after the 2022 World Cup, with Tite’s departure, have they run the Ramon Menezes team, Fernando Diniz and Dorival), just over a year from the World Cup? Because Brazil, even pestilent, will most likely go to the World Cup.
It seems that Dorival has no climate, no competence, to stay. Let’s go from who?
The experienced Renato Gaúcho, who is without a club? (I want to see him there.) The Portuguese Jorge Jesus, successful in Flamengo, who is in Saudi football? (Looks like he wants.) Another Portuguese, Abel Ferreira, from Palmeiras? (Doesn’t he want to.) Novice Filipe Luís, successful in Flamengo? (Dorival was also successful at Flamengo, and São Paulo, but …)
In the five achievements of the national team (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002), only in one the coach was ahead of the national team for more than 14 months: Carlos Alberto Parreira, winner 31 years ago.
Telê Santana, in the 1980s, and Tite recently had a chance in two straight World Cups and failed. Vicente Feola took over two months from the 1958 World Cup; Zagallo, three of the 1970s. They won.
Nothing means that a long work will work. It can be short as long as it is effective. The challenge is to find someone who makes the national team work in time of the World Cup.
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