Carlo Ancelotti’s team will now know the full calendar of the competition in the United States, Canada and Mexico
The Brazilian team learned, this Friday (5), who their opponents will be in Group C of the . The team of now you will know the complete calendar of the competition in Canada and . FIFA will announce this Saturday the times and locations of the matches, including the debut of the .
The ceremony will be held in Washington starting at 2 pm (Brasília time). In addition to Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, former athletes Ronaldo, Totti, Stoichkov and Lalas will lead the event. In addition, each team already qualified for the World Cup will also have a representative.
The team’s rivals in the first phase are known: Morocco, Haiti and Scotland. It is now up to the CBF to find out where the clashes will take place in order to visit the last locations and determine what the logistics of the Brazilian squad will be like next year.
Top seed in Group C, Brazil will have games on the 13th, 19th and 24th of June, respectively. There are two possibilities on the table: Brazil could make its World Cup debut against Morocco at the MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, or at the Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, in the Boston region.
The biggest possibility is to debut at the Gillette Stadium, where they could also play the second round match, against Haiti, on the 19th, and close this phase at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in Atlanta, against Scotland, on the 24th.
To host the team in the World Cup, the New York region is one of the options, well ahead, at this moment, of Orlando, which was once a favorite, but is practically ruled out. The Boston region is also on the agenda and visits to places near Atlanta may be made.
The CBF defined that the players will start performing on May 25th of next year, at the entity’s training center, at Granja Comary. Carlo Ancelotti will call up the 26 players in the middle of the same month. There are also two friendly matches planned to be held, one of them in Brazil, in preparation for the World Cup.
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