Carlo Ancelotti, coach of Real Madrid, is determined to terminate his contract with the Spanish team and hit with the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) to command the Brazilian team, says report from The Athletic, the sports site of The New York Times.
According to the publication, Ancelotti would have already communicated the locker room of his intention to leave the club.
The 65 -year -old Florentino has been cutting by the maximum national football entity for years. Confederation President Ednaldo Rodrigues does not make a mystery about his preference for Italian for the national team’s vacancy, open since the departure of Dorival Júnior – which agreed with Corinthians last week – in March.
In June 2023, the CBF claimed to have verbal agreement with Ancelotti to take charge of the main team in 2024 at the end of its contract with Real Madrid. While waiting, Fernando Diniz was appointed to the vacancy as a tax coach. Then the Italian renewed with the Spanish team.
This new contract would go until June 2026, but the coach and Real Madrid have been experiencing difficult times. Pressured by a complicated season, despite having a galactic cast, the coach faces growing questions about his stay in the team, being the defeat for Arsenal in the quarterfinals of Champions, the point – then – most serious of the crisis.
This Saturday (26), the situation worsened with the third defeat to Barcelona this season, in the final of the King Cup, by a 3-2 chaotic in overtime. In a news conference this Sunday, the Italian found out. “I can follow, I can stop … This will be a theme of the coming weeks, not today,” he said. Publicly, Ancelotti has been saying that he would like to stay with Real and that the decision is up to the club board, but that was before the disappointment in Seville.
The report of the American newspaper states that there is already a plan: the Italian is with Madrid until the end of the season of the Spanish Championship and takes over the Brazilian team in June. The club needs to make a decision before the new FIFA Club World Cup began, also in June. For the position of coach, the favorite so far is Xabi Alonso, who has dressed the meringue shirt and today commands Bayer Leverkusen.
On the Brazilian side, the other candidate for the technician’s vacancy is the Portuguese Jorge Jesus, today in Saudi Al Hilal.
Weighs against Luso the shudded relationship with Neymar, who left Al Hilal earlier this year after criticism of the coach to his fitness and training performance.
