CBF president accumulates failures with selections – 02/08/2023 – Sport

Elected in March 2022 to preside over the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), Ednaldo Rodrigues accumulates failures on the field with the national teams in the last 17 months. The last one took place this Wednesday (2) with the elimination in the group stage of the Women’s World Cup.

“I anticipate that this result will in no way change the CBF’s purpose in my management to continue investing consistently in women’s football as a whole. On the contrary, we are going to intensify this investment. We will now have an Olympic cycle ahead of us and we will remain dedicated to moving forward” , said the manager after the 0-0 draw with Jamaica. The result sealed the fall of the selection in Australia.

It was the earliest elimination of the women’s team in World Cups since 1995. There were expectations of a great campaign also because it was the farewell of Marta, 37, six times voted the best on the planet. She bid farewell to the tournament.

Rodrigues accumulates problems with the national teams, which can lead to criticism. In the men’s national team, it took him seven months, after the defeat in the Qatar Cup, to hire a new coach and on an interim basis. Fernando Diniz was announced for one year, at first, because the confederation is waiting for the release of Carlo Ancelotti, who commands Real Madrid.

Upon being elected, eight months before the start of the 2022 Men’s World Cup, he decided to preserve the coaching staff. Despite not liking coordinator Juninho Paulista and not dying of love for coach Tite, he decided not only to keep them but also to fulfill all requests made. This was to prevent him from being held accountable in the event of defeat.

In the Middle East, Brazil had only one great match (in the round of 16, against South Korea), lost for the first time in a group game since 1998 (against Cameroon) and fell in the quarterfinals against Croatia .

It was already defined that Tite would not continue, but the selection had no replacement lined up.

In theory, Brazil will play six rounds of the qualifiers for the 2026 tournament with an interim in charge.

“He [Ancelotti] Will be on the list for sure. But the coach for the next 12 months will definitely be Fernando Diniz”, assured Rodrigues.

On the pitch, even in the base categories, things haven’t worked out. With an irregular campaign, the under-20 team was defeated by Israel, a country with no tradition in football, in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, by 3 to 2.