The Phenomenon is aiming for the presidency of the Brazilian Football Federation and wants a coach who knows how to revive the national team from the crisis. Carlo has a contract with Real until 2026, but if Florentino wanted to go straight for Xabi Alonso…
Now it’s official: Ronaldo Nazario from Lima is running for president of the Cbf, the Brazilian football federation. He said it himself in an interview with the Globo Esporte portal. Elections that will have to be held between March 2025 and the same month of the following year: sooner rather than later, given the situation of Brazilian football with the federation in turmoil due to the judicial situation of the current president Ednaldo Rodrigues and the national team in serious difficulties both for results and for management: since Tite left after the 2022 World Cup, three coaches have already sat on the Canarinha bench, Ramon Menezes on an interim basis for 3 games, then Fernando Diniz for 6, also on a temporary contract, and in 2024 Dorival, who already has 14 games under his belt but who doesn’t convince anyone and lives hanging by a very thin thread given that he has managed just 6 victories.
judicial chaos
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Ednaldo Rodrigues served as interim president between 2021 and 2022 and was formally elected on March 23 of that year. “Presinaldo”, according to the nickname assigned to him at home, was deposed on 7 December 2023 for alleged irregularities in the electoral process but on 4 January this year he regained his position while awaiting the verdict of the Supreme Court. As mentioned, a lot of confusion.
the rector
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The first candidate for the national team bench for Rodrigues was Carlo Ancelotti, who was contacted and showed great interest, so much so that in October 2023 the rector of the University of Parma Paolo Andrei, awarding Ancelotti an honorary degree, said without any problems that Carlo he would soon become the new coach of Brazil. This prompted Florentino Perez to react and so before Christmas of that same year Carlo was offered an unusual renewal at Casa Blanca until 2026. Carlo thanked Rodrigues for his interest and obviously signed with Madrid. And this is the current situation.
the ultimatum
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Ancelotti won the La Liga and the Champions League in 2024, but he knows very well that at Real Madrid success lasts as long as the party lasts. And so in early November Florentino Perez, after the defeats against Barcelona and Milan, presented his first ultimatum to Ancelotti: victory against Osasuna or adiós. Madrid won 4-0 and the storm has passed, but the clouds are still there. And now in Brazil Carlo has even doubled his presidential admirers: Ronaldo as well as Ednaldo. “I have hundreds of reasons – Ronaldo told Globo Esporte – but the main one is to regain global respect for the Brazilian national team. People stop me on the street to ask me to play again because the Seleção’s situation isn’t the best at the moment, both on and off the pitch. I want to open the doors to the legends of Brazilian football and make CBF the most loved company in Brazil. Today there is a total disinterest on the part of the people for the national team, which plays in general indifference. We have been mistreated on the pitch and in competitions and the Seleçao must recover its prestige.”
the names
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Obviously we talked about national team coaches… “It seems premature to mention names who will participate in my project – Ronaldo replied – but it is clear that the national team deserves the best professionals in the world. We have the best players, we have Vinicius, Neymar, Rodrygo, Endrick, Estevao… we have so much talent, why don’t we play well? The problem is not only in the formation or in the coach, it is something that goes from the top to the bottom, in the format of a pyramid that drags its problems. We need to change this dynamic.”
TWENTY YEAR REPORT
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Of the five names mentioned by Ronaldo, three are from Real Madrid, in addition to Neymar who has practically been out of action for over a year and the very young Estevao. And Vinicius adores Carletto. For his part, Ronaldo has a magnificent twenty-year relationship with Florentino Perez and has great respect for Ancelotti. And he knows how to move like no one else. The Phenomenon knows perfectly well the anxieties of the president of Real Madrid: if the Casa Blanca decides to change coach in the next few months, the name of Xabi Alonso is always very popular, there will be no problems in sitting at a table with Perez and Ancelotti and finding the better formula, softer and friendlier, to talk about the future.
the triangle
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Obviously now as “Ronnie” says it’s all premature. Tomorrow Ancelotti, by beating Pachuca, can become the most successful coach in the history of Real Madrid, the Brazilian electoral process hasn’t even started and who knows when it will start, the 2026 World Cup is approaching perhaps too quickly for Ronaldo to be able to face it as president and with a coach chosen by him. However, there is no doubt that if the times and events between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro allow it, Carlo Ancelotti’s name will return to Brazil as a candidate for the Seleção bench. The Ronaldo-Ancelotti-Vinicius triangle can rekindle the Brazilians’ lost passion for their national team.
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