{"id":1397993,"date":"2025-09-07T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?post_type=features&p=1397993"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:26:51","slug":"tactical-analysis-brazil-carlo-ancelotti-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/tactical-analysis-brazil-carlo-ancelotti-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil analysis: How Carlo Ancelotti is slowly changing the Selecao ahead of the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Less than one year away from the World Cup, Brazil have been going through a lot of changes as Carlo Ancelotti tries to steady the ship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The loss against Croatia on penalties in the 2022 quarter finals still stings Brazilians to this day. That match not only meant an early end to their campaign, but also the start of a very turbulent institutional period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managers sacked, corruption scandals, presidency changes. Everything you could possibly imagine happened in the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in less than a World Cup cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Tite left after relatively unlucky 2018 and 2022 failures, Fernando Diniz came in as interim while also trying to balance club duties with Fluminense and Dorival Junior couldn’t replicate his domestic success in the international stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Now, Carlo Ancelotti is trying to weather the storm – and seems to be on the right track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Change in styles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Brazil had a very clear structure during the Tite tenure, between 2016 and 2022. It relied heavily on what is known nowadays as positional play, with a rigid structure, fullbacks staying back and\/or cutting inside and wingers out wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Diniz, however, is basically the antithesis to this philosophy and tried to implement a random, chaotic, and asymmetric style based on overloads. He wasn’t given the time to make it work, but also didn’t show enough progress to justify continuity and was sacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    For the first time in World Cup qualifying history, Brazil lost a match at home. ?

    Lionel Messi on Argentina's win: "Winning this game like this I think is one of the most important wins that this group has achieved."

    Brazil are breaking all the wrong records.<\/p>— Squawka (@Squawka)     November 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>