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After Simoes left if we could have gotten even one low key "teacher" to come and teach our coaches and work with youth and club teams across the island and help select and train the national U15 team and also develop a national system (not system of playing - rather a system of preparation) another Brazilian would be well suited to that. No one knows football preparation better than they do - I think Carlos Alberto Parreira let the cat out of the bag when he admitted that Brazilian footballers aren't really born supernatural they are built by extreme training regimes - yes every thing is maniacally practiced over and over again how they do that without stifling the players is the greatest trick in the history of sports. We could use that.
With regards to Brazilian tactics at the national level Bucknor is dead on we don't need that we just need one sensible man who understands our football and will work with it.
The Brazilian ball that we admire so much hasn't won anything since 1970 and has been obsolete since Lazaroni emerged in 1990 with his cynical midfield.
European coaches who succeed with Cameroon and Nigeria and other African countries on the world stage don't go to those countries stubbornly trying to get them to play slow down possession football they have been more willing to adapt to the natural attributes of those physically awesome players rather than turn a nation's entire set of footballer into clones of the countries they are from... Harder for Brazilian coaches to do that as they have the strongest football identity in the world and seem to want to repeat that every where they go hence their lack of success with any team outside of their own country.
With regards to Brazilian tactics at the national level Bucknor is dead on we don't need that we just need one sensible man who understands our football and will work with it.
The Brazilian ball that we admire so much hasn't won anything since 1970 and has been obsolete since Lazaroni emerged in 1990 with his cynical midfield.
European coaches who succeed with Cameroon and Nigeria and other African countries on the world stage don't go to those countries stubbornly trying to get them to play slow down possession football they have been more willing to adapt to the natural attributes of those physically awesome players rather than turn a nation's entire set of footballer into clones of the countries they are from... Harder for Brazilian coaches to do that as they have the strongest football identity in the world and seem to want to repeat that every where they go hence their lack of success with any team outside of their own country.
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