Ancelotti is currently head coach at Real Madrid. The 64-year-old Italian respects his contract with the club and will first serve it out before he starts working as a national coach at the Brazilian Football Association. Ancelotti won the Spanish Cup, the national title, the Champions League, the European Super Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the World Cup for club teams with Real Madrid in his second term.
He was also at the helm in Madrid between 2013 and 2015. He also won the Champions League and the Spanish Cup then. If he actually starts working for the Brazilian federation, it will be his first job as national coach. Ancelotti must lead Brazil to the Copa América next summer.
In the meantime, Brazil cannot do without a helmsman. That is why Fernando Diniz is considered an interim pope, it seems. The 49-year-old Brazilian leaves Fluminense and will be on the bench for the upcoming qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup. “It is a dream, an honor and I am very proud to serve the national team.”
Ramon Menezes has been interim national coach at the five-time world champion in recent months. At the end of last year, he took over from Tite, who resigned after Brazil’s elimination in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar.