A New Coach Leads Brazil National Team
Agencies – Sudan Events
Sao Paulo FC announced that its current coach, Dorival Junior, will leave the team to coach the Brazilian national football team.
The Brazilian Football Confederation dismissed interim coach Fernando Diniz from his position two days ago, after he took over his position last July, succeeding the other interim coach, Ramon Menezes.
The official website of the Sao Paulo Club on “X” quoted Dorival as saying, “It (coaching the Brazilian national team) is a personal dream that has come true.”
Dorival (61 years old) succeeded in leading Flamengo to two major titles in 2022, the Brazilian Cup and the Libertadores Cup (equivalent to the European Champions League), before moving to coach Sao Paulo, which led him to also win the Brazilian Cup in 2023.
Italian Carlo Ancelotti was supposed to take over the task of supervising the Brazilian national team next summer, but this file was closed after the Italian coach decided to extend his contract with his current team, Real Madrid, until 2026.
The Brazilian national team has remained without a permanent coach since Tite’s departure after exiting from the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar at the end of 2022, leaving the task temporarily to Menezes and after him to Fluminense’s coach, Diniz.
Diniz failed to improve the disappointing results of the Seleção, as it suffered three consecutive defeats last October and November in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, including a loss at home to rivals, the world champion Argentina.
Brazil currently occupies sixth place in the South American qualifiers, which is the last place to qualify directly for the 2026 World Cup, scheduled for the United States, Canada and Mexico.
