Introduction and clarification of misunderstandings: Does Brazilians know that their football has declined?
Many domestic fans think that Brazilians are very arrogant. They are still addicted to the dream of five World Cup champions and do not wake up, and do not realize that there is something wrong with their country’s football. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of the Brazilians by our fans. The Brazilians have long known that there are serious problems in their country’s football system. This is the reason why this Brazilian Football Association has to sign Ancelotti at all costs.
However, Brazil is a football kingdom after all, and Brazilians’ deep understanding of football also means that they understand how serious the quagmire they are in. They understand where their problems are and they also know that these problems cannot be solved. Hiring Ancelotti is a life-saving straw for the Brazilian Football Association. They hope that world-renowned coaches can quickly bring important championships in the short term to cover up Brazil’s declining football system.
In this article, the author will directly quote the front-line views of Brazilian local football practitioners. Through citing Brazilian local data, we will introduce readers to the views of Brazilians on their own football to help domestic Brazilian fans understand from multiple aspects the reason for the decline of Brazilian football.
2. Brazilian football tactics are behind the scenes: European football collectivism has surpassed Brazil
Many experts have mentioned that Brazil’s samba football is actually an individualism that despises team cooperation and attaches importance to individual performances. This football spirit has long been surpassed by European collectivist football, which has evolved for generations of evolution, dominated by team cooperation and rigorous tactics.
But we cannot only see this level – Brazilian football’s discomfort with collectivist football, in complexity, is the overall backwardness of the Brazilian football tactical system, which is just the shallowest manifestation. There is a deeper reason behind it, that is, there is a serious utilitarian problem in the construction of Brazil’s youth training system.
Brazil’s team cannot play European-style collectivist complex tactical football is just a shallow reason
We can give two more obvious phenomena that can be used as a comparison.
In Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona Football Club will arrange youth training players to listen to tactical classes since childhood to cultivate tactical thinking and tactical awareness.Brazil still sticks to the old tricks and does not tell tactics to children, letting children play with football based on their own preferences. It seems to be “cultivating football interests and letting children show their talents to the fullest”, which is essentially that Brazilian football lacks truly systematic and professional tactical training since the introductory youth training players.
Don’t Barcelona coaches understand the importance of football interests? They still force children to listen to boring tactical classes. Barcelona knows very well that beautiful dribbling and ball control are important, but what is more important in the field is to know how to cooperate with teammates and obey the coach’s command. Therefore, football teenagers must be influenced by these rules from an early age.
Barcelona young players need to listen to tactical classes, while Brazilian young players tend to play freely
In Germany, football youth training players will go through a gradual and incremental game training process. When they are very young, they will first play the “6V6” small stadium. As they get older and their skills mature, they will start playing the “7V7” game, and then slowly start playing the “8V8 game”. German football coaches hope that players will start from small stadiums and fewer people, and understand various football cooperation battles layer by layer. The subtleties of the technique are to start playing the standard 11-a-side game after the technical and tactical foundation of football has been consolidated.
Brazilian players have almost no gradual training process. They have started playing the standard 11-a-side football match directly at the age of 9. It seems that Brazilian players have more experience in standard football matches than German players. But in fact, this “shortness for quick success” game arrangement makes Brazilian football boys unable to fully understand the real uses of many tactics, and their essence is to encourage growth.
Brazil’s football system is very eager for quick success and instant benefits, and Ancelotti is facing challenges
Don’t Brazilians know the importance of Barcelona-style youth training and German-style guidance? No, football coaches in the football kingdom cannot be so retro and conservative.
The core reason is that Brazil’s system is under great pressure for youth training coaches—Brazil League The youth training system will not use the number of young talents to train as the performance evaluation standard for youth training coaches, but will check whether the coach is qualified by whether he can win the youth competition championship. If the domestic youth competitions are not good, no matter how many talents are trained, the coach will have to leave.
This makes it impossible for Brazilian youth training coaches to be willing to free up time to train players as patiently as the Germans, because for coaches, a job is higher than anything else.
3. Multiple backwardness in the schedule system
Brazil football is not only a top football power behind Europe’s tactical training for players, but also far behind Europe’s league schedule. This kind of backwardness is mainly reflected in the chaotic situation of the schedule.
There are two competition systems in Brazil at the same time, one is the national league system (that is, the Brazilian League A and Brazilian League with lifting mechanisms), and the other is the state league system. In history, the schedules of these two leagues have often conflicted, resulting in the club being unable to arrange games at all. Although the schedules have no longer conflicted with each other in recent years, they have conflicted with national match days from time to time.
Famous coach Ancelotti and Football Association Chairman Samir
Brazilians know this problem, but they cannot change it.
First, Brazil’s state league and Brazilian League are not affiliated with each other, so the Brazilian League has no jurisdiction over the state league and cannot be ordered to suspend the game.At the same time, the organizers of the state league cannot easily give up their interests and abandon the right to host.
Secondly, Brazil’s state league has a longer history than the National League, and its mass base is even stronger.There are great economic reasons behind it, but no matter what, this is an important foundation for Brazilian national football, and fans also strongly support the continued holding of the state league.
The simultaneous existence of state and national leagues has made many players run away
4. More extensions: The overall view of Brazilian football compared to Europe
Fernando Mends, CEO of the Brazilian professional football platform Global Football, publicly pointed out three major issues in Brazilian football.
First, most clubs have no long-term plans and even no long-term infrastructure investment. This means that a large number of clubs have no plans to cultivate talents at all, and there are not enough youth training facilities.
Second, it has been 20 years since Scolari, no Brazilian coach has appeared in the mainstream European leagues. This means that Brazil’s elite coaches have basically been eliminated from the world’s first-class coaches, which will directly lead to the overall backwardness of Brazil’s football tactics.
Thirdly, Brazil has no learning environment for football knowledge and no learning platform for coaches.
The coaching environment in Japan is much better than that in Brazil
Mendes’ words can be said to be at the critical point. Brazil’s problem can be said to be desperate. The club has no plans and facilities to train players. The coaches have insufficient football knowledge. The key is that even if they want to learn, there is no place to learn.
Japan is better at this point than Brazil. The abilities of Japanese coaches also have similar problems. Although Japanese coaches are widely praised in Asia, they have not achieved a breakthrough of 0 in mainstream European leagues and cannot truly accept positive competition with top European coaches.
But Japanese football has built a very complete national coaching training platform. All Japanese registered coaches can simultaneously learn the latest football skills and tactics knowledge in the world through the simplest Internet platform. At the same time, Japan has complete and strictCoach assessment system. This is one of the reasons why the level of Japanese coaching has improved significantly in the past decade.
Thanks to the strong coaching learning platform, the level of Japanese coaches has improved rapidly in the past decade
5. The Football Association, which is more corrupt than Argentina
Many Argentine fans criticized the corruption and incompetence of the Argentine Football Association, but in this regard, the Brazilian Football Association is even better than that. The five football association chairmen have been investigated by judicial authorities recently, and the scandal rate of up to 100% has made the Brazilian Football Association president a position with a higher level of danger than the South Korean president.
Ricardo Teixeira, who has been re-elected for 23 years since 1989, has a special status and outstanding achievements. He is the son-in-law of FIFA President Avilanje and one of the heroes of Brazil’s team to win the 2002 World Cup. He created the last golden period of Brazil’s football. He was accused of taking bribes by Brazilian interceptors in 2008 and was accused of tax evasion, money laundering and misleading by Brazilian Congress in 2011.
Teixeira’s successor Jose Marin’s office stool was not yet hot, and it was directly given by the US FBI “Open the door”. He was directly arrested and sentenced to five years in prison by the US police for suspected transnational corruption.
The boss of the Brazilian team Botafogo publicly criticized the chairman of the Football Association in front of the media
Marin’s successor was Marco del Neiro. A few days after taking office, he resigned in a hurry, but escaped Marin’s fate.
The next term is Rogerio Cabocrolo. He was not exposed to corruption, he was exposed to sexual harassment and was removed from office as soon as he took office.
The next term is to hire Ednaldo, who hired Ancelotti. He originally wanted to gain some achievements by hiring Ancelotti and settle his position. Who knew that Ancelotti had just announced that he had just been in class for a few daysHe was fired by the court for impeachment for illegal administration.
Chairman Ednaldo, who was fired by himself, just announced the signing of Ancelotti, was fired by himself
Kill one and replaced the other in a revolving manner, not only reflects the serious corruption of the Brazilian Football Association, but also directly exposes the shortcomings of the unstable and fluctuating football situation in Brazil.
6. Inability to break the deadlock: The league with economic collapse
Due to the weak long-term business operations and the low operating level, the Brazilian local league has been facing an overall fiscal crisis for more than ten years. From the Brazilian League championship to the relegation team, wage arrears and wage delays have almost become a common phenomenon that cannot be solved.
The disbandment of Jiangsu Suning after winning the championship has become a joke in the eyes of many people. In fact, how good can Brazilian football be? Botafogo, who just won the double championship in the Brazilian League and the Copa Libertadores, announced his wage arrears in the first week after winning the championship. The Brazilian can’t get rid of the championship, but he can also get rid of wages if he wins the championship.
Botafogo, who just won the double championship of the Brazilian League and the Liberators, owed wages in the first week after winning the championship
The wage arrears in Brazil are very serious, which is one of the reasons why Brazilian players have lost a large number of overseas players – Brazil’s league wage arrears have been going for ten years. Many Brazilian players are unwilling to return to Brazil to play even if they play in Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, because although the book salary of Southeast Asian teams is not high, they are at least guaranteed to be paid monthly…
This economic situation has caused negative impacts in both directions.
First of all, the club has to do everything possible to save money because it is short of money, so it is even more unwilling to patiently train players. Instead, it finds ways to quickly produce the so-called “genius youth” in an assembly line and then sells it to Europeans.
The second aspect is that wage arrears and the sharp drop in the salary of celebrity players have seriously damaged the morale of football in Brazil. Many youth training players are very worried about their future development. The children areThe enthusiasm for football has also declined severely.
In order to save money, the clubs in the Mid-Rise of Brazil began to mass produce “little demons” that meet the appetite of European giants, which instead led to the deformity of the youth training system
7. Has Neymar really taken the banner of the Brazilian team?
For more than a decade, Neymar has been the absolute banner of Brazil. Of course, the players in the Brazilian team respect Neymar very much, and Brazilian football experts also admit that the national team is particularly dependent on Neymar.
But everyone may have a different opinion on whether Neymar really takes over the banner of Brazil, and it is difficult to find a consistent answer. However, in my opinion, Neymar’s frequent injuries have indeed brought many tactical instability to the national team.
Especially, Brazil won the championship in the 2019 Copa America where Neymar was absent, and easily defeated his old rival Argentina 2-0 in the semi-finals, which made everything very embarrassing.
The national team that lost Neymar won the 2019 Copa America Championship
Neimar’s national team No. 10, although Ronaldo and Kaka did not lead the team to win the Copa America and the World Cup championship (when wearing No. 10), they have won the Golden Globe Award in their careers and have been the world’s number one. The other two, Alex and Diego, are not well-known enough, but they both helped the national team win the Copa America championship.
Nemar himself did not have a Golden Globe Award, nor did he lead the team to win those two most important championships, and he was in an embarrassing situation.
Neimar is a mirror of the Brazilian national team in the last decade
8. Dilemma and prospect·An Shuai’s heavy responsibility
Since its crushing defeat in Germany in 2014, Brazil has frequently replaced the chairman of the Football Association and the national team coach. The tactics have been changing and the Football Association’s policies have been changing. The team has been in turmoil for 11 years. Although it is said that Brazilian football has declined, the Brazilian national team’s paper strength has always been bad. This decline is more about the turbulent performance behind the football team.
In other words, in a few years, the Brazilian team’s paper strength will be worse than it is now, and the decline trend of Brazil will only be more obvious at that time.
Ancelotti, who went to the national team, seems to have a smaller workload, but in fact he has a little more work pressure
The Brazilian is very clear about the problem of his football, but unfortunately, every problem of Brazilian football cannot be solved for the Brazilian. Brazilian football will continue to decline in the future, and this trend is difficult to reverse.
So, Ancelotti is under great pressure. Perhaps like Lippi, the national football team at that time, he was regarded as the most important life-saving straw by the Brazilians, and he must also become a real life-saving straw.
Ancelotti must make good use of the last days of these powerful veterans
The Brazilian national team must achieve good results in the World Cup to revitalize confidence in the domestic football atmosphere and lay the foundation for future reforms. So Ancelotti has a heavy score. From a rational point of view, he has only signed for one year, so the 2026 World Cup championship is the first goal.
Of course, it is a big chance to win the World Cup, but for Ancelotti, Brazil must win a medal. In 2014, Brazil also made it to the semi-finals with almost the worst lineup in team history. If Ancelotti couldn’t even get the third place, then from his level, his coaching against Brazil was indeed a failure.
The Brazilian team, which just won the Olympic championship four years ago, is not without potential in lineup
In the long run, Ancelotti cannot change the current situation of Brazil’s football decline, because we can see from the previous article that the decline of Brazil’s football is in many aspects, with reasons for the backward tactical system, reasons for the collapse of the league economy, and reasons for the uneven confusion of the Football Association. On the contrary, the national team itself accounts for the smallest proportion.
Ancelotti cannot solve the real problem of Brazilian football
The problem of Brazilian football lies in the collapse of the grassroots football system, and it is impossible to rely on hiring a world-renowned coach to solve it by hiring a world-renowned coach in the national team. What it requires is the long-term efforts of the Brazilian Football Association.
Even if Ancelotti immediately led the team to win the 2026 World Cup championship, if the problems at the grassroots level of Brazilian football are not solved, the decline trend of Brazilian football will still be inevitable.
Perhaps, from this we can also reflect on some of our own problems as if we look in the mirror.
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