{"id":30311,"date":"2025-05-26T20:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/carlo-ancelotti-brazil-best-in-the-world-says-new-national-team-boss\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:40:16","slug":"carlo-ancelotti-brazil-best-in-the-world-says-new-national-team-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/carlo-ancelotti-brazil-best-in-the-world-says-new-national-team-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Ancelotti: Brazil &#8216;best in the world&#8217;, says new national team boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil have won the World Cup five times, with the most recent triumph in 2002, and Ancelotti&#8217;s first games with them are two South American World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They play against Ecuador away on 5 June before a home game against Paraguay in Sao Paulo five days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ancelotti was welcomed by former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8072kvmd23o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">has replaced Dorival Junior<\/a>, who was sacked at the end of March following a 4\u20131 defeat by Argentina, a humiliating loss that was the latest in a series of poor results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil are fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/world-cup-qualifying-conmebol\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in South American World Cup qualifying<\/a> with four matches to go, with the top six teams earning direct qualification to the competition in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team&#8217;s struggles began more than two years ago when they were knocked out of the 2022 World Cup by Croatia on penalties in the quarter-finals. They have since lost five of their past 14 games, conceding 16 goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5y5jnq4v13o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil have won the World Cup five times, with the most recent triumph in 2002, and Ancelotti&#8217;s first games with them are two South American World Cup qualifiers. They play against Ecuador away on 5 June before a home game against Paraguay in Sao Paulo five days later. Ancelotti was welcomed by former Brazil coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30313,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions\/30313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}