Captain of the Brazilian team that won the five -time championship in 2002, Cafu It was the last one that lifted the cup with the track on the left arm.
During interview with the program CNN Sports S/A This Sunday (31), the star analyzed the current generation of sides of Brazil and explained the identity created in the national team.
For him, current sides are able to achieve great results. There is no doubt that there is quality and will in athletes.
“We have good sides today. We have great sides,” he said.
However, he pointed out that, although the country today has prepared players, they still need time to consolidate an identity similar to that of previous generations.
Now we have large sides. We have sides apt today to really honor and wear the shirt of the teams that are passing, especially the Brazilian National Team, but it is a matter of time and adaptation.
Who can lift the cup?
Last captain to lift the Cafu Cup also commented who can be the next to repeat the gesture.
For him, it emerges as the main candidate in 2026.
We expect our next captain, then, that everything indicates that it is the same Marquinhos himself, can do this same feat that we did, that other captains did too. Winning a World Cup is not easy.
The former player reinforced the difficulty of the tournament and the maximum requirement from the knockout.
“After the round of 16 classification phase it is 100% hit and 0% of error. Because an error can throw away the 4 -year work,” he said.
It is necessary to focus and commitment so that errors do not cost years of effort and planning.
The former defender did not fail to reiterate: “It’s not easy to win a World Cup.”
Selection identity
He remembered names that had a long trajectory in the national team, such as Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Rivaldo.
According to him, continuity was fundamental in his day.
“I was in the Brazilian National Team 16 years old. (…) So, I mean, we already knew each other, we knew the way to play. You create a very big identity within a club and within the Brazilian team,” he explained.
This identity, according to the former captain, was born with achievements.
“We created this identity (from the Brazilian National Team) with titles, with achievements of important titles, such as the Copa America, such as the World Cup, such as the Confederations Cup, such as the Gold Cup … Anyway, the Cup that it is. Really, this made us a very large link with the Brazilian people.
For him, criticism cannot discourage the new generation which is, yes, fit and good.
When it does not come to win an important title as a World Cup, these sides end up being criticized, but no. They are large sides. They are sides today able to actually play a World Cup until they win a World Cup.
CNN Sports S/A
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