Brazil national team
Ancelotti is set to take over Selecao for the 2024 Copa America
According to media reports, Carlo Ancelotti will be the coach of the Brazilian national team from summer 2024. photo
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Carlo Ancelotti has long been traded as the new national coach of the Brazilian national soccer team. The association president has now announced the commitment for 2024.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti is set to become the head coach of the Brazilian national soccer team for the Copa América from summer 2024.
That’s what Ednaldo Rodrigues, president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), told Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo after the federation announced Fernando Diniz’s one-year commitment. “We don’t call him interim coach, he is the national team coach. Diniz will make the transition to Ancelotti, who will take over at the Copa America,” said Rodrigues. Diniz, who continues to train first division club Fluminense from Rio de Janeiro at the same time, is to be presented at a press conference on Wednesday.
Ancelotti’s contract in Madrid expires next summer on June 30th, so a solution has to be found with Real. Neither the 64-year-old Italian nor Los Blancos have confirmed a move to Brazil yet. But already in June Ancelotti’s commitment had been reported. Legally, Ancelotti cannot sign with the Brazilian FA until next January – six months before his contract with Los Blancos expires. But the CBF relies on the star coach’s alleged verbal commitment, as also reported by the Spanish “Marca”.
The Copa will take place in the USA from June 20th to July 14th, 2024. The Champions League final is scheduled for June 1st, the Spanish La Liga ends on May 26th.
After the quarter-final defeat against Croatia at the World Cup in Qatar, the previous national coach Tite announced his resignation last December. After that, U20 national coach Ramon Menezes looked after the Selecao.
The Spanish sports newspaper “AS” reported in June, citing Ancelotti’s surroundings, that the Italian had spoken to the Brazilians. But he made it very clear that his contract with Real for this season is untouchable and that he must fully focus on his work in Madrid. That’s why he doesn’t want to talk about a possible change until January at the earliest. However, without any prior commitment or commitment, either oral or written, the newspaper wrote. In addition, Ancelotti was upset that the association acted as if it had already agreed to the offer.