Real Madrid manager, Carlo Ancelotti will become the head coach of Brazilโs national team in the summer of 2024.
Since 2022, there have been a series of speculations that Carlo Ancelotti would leave Real Madrid to coach Brazil, especially after winning the 2022 UEFA Champions League for the Spanish giants.
However, Ancelotti insisted that he doesnโt intend to leave the Spanish giants until Real Madrid ask him to leave. But it has now become obvious that the Spanish giants wonโt renew his contract when it expires on June 30, 2024.
Amidst that, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, Ednaldo Rodrigues has confirmed that Carlo Ancelotti will become the countryโs head coach next year.
This means that the Italian tactician would lead the record five-time World Cup winners to the Copa America in June 2024
Brazil has been without a permanent head coach since Tite left the team after their quarterfinal loss to Croatia in Qatar World Cup. Since then, Brazilโs under-20s coach Ramon Menezes has been handling the team during friendlies.
According to Rodrigues, Fernando Diniz will be in charge of both the countryโs female senior team (Fluminense) and the menโs senior team (Selecao) until Ancelotti takes over in 2024.
โHe will come and make the transition in Brazil for Ancelotti,โ Rodrigues said as quoted by the BBC.
โHis game plan is almost similar to that of the coach that will take over at Copa America, Ancelotti.
โWe donโt call him an interim coach of the national team.โ
If this arrangement is anything to go by, Ancelotti would be Brazilโs first foreign-born head coach since 1965.
As of the time of filling in this report, both Real Madrid and the Italian tactician were yet to make a public reaction to this development.