I write what everyone who follows a minimally football already knows: the Brazilian team, five times champion of the world, goes bad.
Without coach (Carlo Ancelotti will not come, again), no convincing results, no quality football, without showing that he can play well without Tite (technician in the 2018 and 2022) and without Neymar (without physical condition due to injuries).
The national team, which in the latest match took a 4-1 of Archirrival Argentina, is today a displeasure for the fan, who just over a year from the 2026 World Cup sees a very exciting scenario for the conquest of Hexa.
However, if in the countryside Brazil will be bad, just target the sand, or the court, so that optimism and pride will prevail again.
It starts this Thursday (1st), in the paradisiacal Seychelles Islands (East Africa), the Sand Football World Cup, in which Brazil, considering only the editions that have FIFA Chancela (since 2005), is already hexac to (2006 to 2009, 2017 and 2023).
From 1995, from the 22 times the tournament (currently Biennial) was played, including those recognized by FIFA or the previous ones, organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide, the Brazilian team won 15. Portugal and Russia won three times each, and France once. Historical brasuca dominance.
Twelve players form the Brazilian team that starts their campaign this Friday (2), at noon, against El Salvador, in a group that still has Italy and Oman. SporTV, Cazétv and FIFA+ will display the Brazilian debut.
The star of the team that leads the world ranking (followed by Italy and Portugal) is Rodrigo Soares, 31, the current best player in the world and champion in the Cups held in 2017 and 2024 – the 2023 tournament delayed and happened last year.
Pivot Rodrigo, who uses shirt 9 and plays advanced in five against five (including goalkeepers), adds more than 200 goals for Brazil, being behind the general artillery of already retired Neném, 52, who scored 337 goals.
In the court (futsal), there is also no reason to complain about the Brazilian team. On the contrary. Brazil, as in the sand, is a sixth champion, even won the latest World Cup in 2024 in Uzbekistan, surpassing the decision … Argentina.
Since 1989, there have been ten Worlds, and Brazil has won six, more than half, including the inaugural.
Falcão, Manoel Tobias, Lenísio, Schumacher and other big names that represented Brazil in the sport, gave way to sting, Pito, Willian and Dyego Zuffo, the latter elected the best in the world in the two latest editions of the Awards futsal.
In the last six elections, a Brazilian has always won the planet’s main athlete prize in Futsal – alien of Dyego, they won sting (three times) and Pito (one).
As in sand soccer, in futsal they play five against five. As in sand soccer, in futsal Brazil leads the world ranking (followed by Portugal and Spain). In field football, we are in fifth position, behind Argentines, Spanish, French and English.
In women, Brazil leads the ranking of teams in futsal and is classified after winning this year’s Copa America in Sorocaba (SP), for the first edition of the FIFA World Cup, which will be in November in the Philippines.
The current best in the world is Brazilian (Emilly Marcondes, 30), and Amandinha, 30, was the winner of the Futsal Planet magazine award eight times in a row, from 2011 to 2018. The two were at Copa America.
In the sand, which does not yet have a female World Cup, Brazil is only in eighth place in the ranking of Beach Soccer Worldwide, but has the best in the world, Adriele Rocha, 28, elected in the latest vote in 2023.
In the field, the women’s team seems to be on the axes under the command of coach Arthur Elias. The Olympic silver came in Paris-2024, and this year, in the latest friendly, a turnaround (2-1) victory over Americans in the US with good football.
Thus, there are several fronts to cheer with taste. Dismissal boils down to the men’s team of Vinicius Junior and Raphinha, supercracks in their clubs (Real Madrid and Barcelona), subcracks with the yellow shirt.
