After the first contacts with Carlo Ancelotti in preparing for Ecuador and Paraguay commitments for the World Cup, defenders Marquinhos and Alexsandro showed enthusiasm with the new coach of the Brazilian team.
“The expectation, desire and ambition are the best possible. Our coach has already shown the strength he has, what he can do within football, the intelligence he has. It was really that the team went to seek in him a year for the World Cup,” Marquinhos said in an interview with journalists at the Corinthians CT in Sao Paulo. The defender was still hoarse, after the celebrations for the unpublished title of Champions League with PSG.
“I on PSG I’ve seen that a dynamic can move, an energy can create at a very fast moment and I hope it happens in the Brazilian team too,” said the defender and captain of the French team.
He added that, for now, he had only a first preliminary contact with the new coach along with the whole group, but pointed out that the Italian “passed a very good image and was very clear in the game plans he will have.”
With the experience of decades ahead of major clubs in Europe, adapting to his first work in the selection should happen “very quickly,” the player predicted. “The ambition is the best possible for us to reverse the moment we live.”
New to the Brazilian team group Alexsandro of Lille, France, also said he had a good impression after the first training conducted by Ancelotti with the team.
“I was able to meet him yesterday, I watched a little and what I saw within training was a very communicative guy, who is always asking, wanting to know, giving tips. I think this is important for us to evolve, grow and also to take all the experience he has in the world of football, the achievements, for the next games and classify the World Cup,” said Alexsandro.
“It’s clear that we’re going through a slightly delicate moment, but it’s a new cycle, new coaches, new players and we’ll do everything to change it,” added the defender.
Ancelotti’s debut with the national team will take place next Thursday, against Ecuador, away from home. Following, Brazil faces Paraguay at Neo Chemistry Arena, on Tuesday (10) next week. According to the CBF, tickets for the match in Itaquera should start being sold on Tuesday. The selection currently occupies fourth position in the table of qualifiers – the first six guarantee direct place in the World Cup; The seventh dispute recap.
