After the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Tite stepped down as Brazil coach.
A whole country holding its breath. On the one hand, Pelé in the hospital and watched over by his relatives on Christmas Eve. On the other, a selection without a leader of men.
After the World Cup in Qatar, and an elimination in the quarter-finals against Croatia when Brazil was the big favorite, the coach left his place. So who to take over from Tite.
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Arrived in 2016 at the head of the Seleção, Tite remains on two identical results in the World Cup. Two quarter-finals. Two failures for the country which claims the trophy every four years. After six years at the head of the selection, the 61-year-old coach, on the benches for more than 30 years, has decided to step down.
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Since then, the names of many of the world’s greatest coaches have been circulating. And that of Zinedine Zidane is no exception. According to The Team the French would attract the interest of the CBF, the Brazilian Federation.
It must be said that the history of “ZZ” is closely linked with Brazil. His final in 1998, his quarter-final in 2006 and his breathtaking performance. Without forgetting all the Brazilians he rubbed shoulders with at Real Madrid and whom he would find with the Seleção: Casemiro, Eder Militao, Vinicius. All three central elements of Zidane’s Casa Blanca, and now of the selection.
If the former number 10 of the Blues has always pushed back the rumors around the foreign selections awaiting that of the 2018 world champions, he has never seemed so far from the Blues. At the end of the contract in a few days, Didier Deschamps regained credit – if he still could – with Noël Le Graet with the final in Doha. The decision to remain or not at the head of the Blues should then return to “DD”. The president of the FFF would like the latter to stay, as he had not entrusted to the Figaro.
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Two former PSG in the small papers
Zidane is not the only name on the CBF’s small papers. The Brazilian Federation would also have checked the names of Thomas Tuchel, Mauricio Pochettino, both passed by Paris Saint-Germain and free of any contract.
Marcelo Gallardo, renowned coach in Argentina, Roberto Martinez, who has just left the Belgian selection, or even Rafael Benitez, passed by Real Madrid, are all scrutinized. Carlo Ancelotti also probed. Only, the current Merengues coach has made it known on several occasions that he wanted to honor his contract in the Spanish capital. Namely until 2024.