The CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) announced on Sunday (5) the resignation of coach Ramon Menezes of the Brazilian National Team. The decision comes one day after the team’s early elimination in the group stage of the World Cup of the category.
The team did not get any victory in the competition, accumulating defeats for Morocco and Spain and a draw with Mexico. Brazil was in the group’s lantern with only one point and was first eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup.
“The decision was made after evaluating the work cycle developed so far,” said the CBF in a statement.
Ramon Menezes cited the difficulties in training with the group and getting the release of players among the difficulties faced in office.
“The fan is sad, upset, but sometimes he does not understand all context, all our difficulty. We had little time to work, to train, because otherwise, not even these athletes would have been released,” said the coach after the defeat to Spain on Saturday (4), in Santiago, who sacrament Brazilian disqualification.
Because it is not a FIFA date, clubs are not obliged to give rise to national teams in the grassroots tournaments, which causes important embezzlement to teams.
The Brazilian team could not have, for example, with names such as Stephen, 18, and Endrick, 19, from Chelsea and Real Madrid, respectively, and already summoned by Carlo Ancelotti, while Spain did not have Lamine Yamal, Barcelona, Euro champion with the main national team in 2024.
The main name of the cast in Chile was striker Wesley, revealed by Corinthians and today at Al Nassr, Saudi Arabia. Striker Pedrinho, also formed at the Corinthian base and today at Zenit, would be released by the club to join the group if Brazil had advanced to the knockout phase.
In office since 2022, Ramon Menezes has accumulated bad results ahead of the national base team in recent years.
In the previous edition of the U20 World Cup, in 2023, in Argentina, already under the coach, the Brazilian team was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Israel, a team with no great tradition in the modality, in extension. Uruguay took the title, beating Italy in the decision.
Olympic two -time champion at the Rio Games in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021, the Brazilian team had also been out of Paris Games in 2024, U23 tournament.
With names like Endrick and John Kennedy in the attack, Brazil ended third in the regional qualifier for the Olympics, watching Argentina and Paraguay have the vacancies.
Ramon Menezes even commanded Brazil’s main national team in the first half of 2023, shortly after Tite’s departure. In three matches, the team lost Morocco (2 x 1) and Senegal (4 x 2) and beat Guinea (4 x 1).
