Brazilian media: Joe Jesus is eliminated, and the new coach of the Brazilian team is Ancelotti!

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Xiaozhong Report

According to Brazil's largest portal website uol.com.br and other Brazilian media reports, the new head coach of the Brazilian team will be Italian Ancelotti, not Portuguese Joselot Jesus. Even if Ancelotti doesn't work, the new Brazilian team's new head coach's plan B is not Joselot Jesus, who was fired by Riyadh Crescent on May 2, but another Portuguese Abel Ferreira, who currently coaches the Brazilian giants Palmeiras. 70-year-old Joselot Jesus has been eliminated.

UOL website columnist Alicia Klein said that according to people close to the negotiation process for the selection of new coaches in Brazil, Ancelotti has basically negotiated with the Brazilian Football Association.

The contract content between Brazilian Football Association and Ancelotti includes: the contract is signed until the end of the 2026 World Cup; if the Brazilian team does not advance to the World Cup (2026), the Brazilian Football Association can terminate the contract unilaterally without paying a penalty; if the Brazilian team enters the 2026 World Cup semi-finals, the contract will automatically be extended for 4 years until the end of the 2030 World Cup, Ancelotti's overall revenue will increase by 20%; if Ancelotti does not want to coach Brazil in the 2026-2030 cycle Team, he will pay the Brazilian Football Association a $1 million breach fee; in this cycle, Ancelotti's monthly salary is 5 million reals, and the Brazilian Football Association will also bear the expenses of renting a luxury house for him in Rio, the costs of international health insurance plans and the costs of personal insurance. The Brazilian Football Association will also provide Ancelotti with bulletproof cars and bodyguards, and provide him and his family with business class air tickets to and from Europe and Brazil. If the Brazilian team wins the 2026 World Cup, Ancelotti will receive a huge bonus.

Currently, 1 euro is exchanged for 6.43 real. Ancelotti's monthly salary of 5 million reais is equivalent to 777,600 euros, so his annual salary is 9.33 million euros. Currently, in the Brazilian League, the highest-paid players are Dutch striker Memphis Depp who plays for Corinthian and Brazilian striker Gabriel Barbosa who plays for Crocero, and their monthly salary is 3 million reals. As the head coach of the Brazilian team, Ancelotti's income is 1.67 times that of their two. In Real Madrid, Ancelotti's monthly salary is 910,000 euros and an annual salary of 11 million euros. As the head coach of Brazil, Ancelotti's annual salary will be the highest among the head coaches of Brazil in previous sessions, and he will also become the highest-salary person among the head coaches of national teams in the world.

According to the same information source, early next week, the Brazilian Football Association will officially announce that Ancelotti will be the head coach of the Brazilian team. If "some kind of dangerous event" occurs before that, Abel Ferreira will be the new head coach of the Brazilian team. After the 2026 World Cup, Ancelotti may leave Brazil and will not automatically renew his contract with Brazil because he has an invitation from a Saudi team, asking him to coach the team after the 2026 World Cup. According to some Spanish media reports, the annual salary offer proposed by the Saudi team to Ancelotti is higher than the Brazilian Football Association.

However, at the critical moment when the Brazilian team's new coach is about to be released, something happened to Brazilian Football Association Chairman Ednaldo Rodriguez.

Ednaldo Rodriguez serves as interim chairman of the Brazilian Football Association from August 2021 to March 2022. On March 23, 2022, he was elected chairman of the Brazilian Football Association and his term ended in March 2026. On March 24 this year, Ednaldo Rodriguez was re-elected unanimously in an election held one year ahead of schedule. His new term began in March 2026 and ended in March 2030.

On December 7, 2023, the Rio State Judicial Court ruled that the Brazilian Football Association presidential election in March 2022 was invalid due to violations, and Ednaldo Rodriguez has no right to exercise the position of Brazilian Football Association chairmanship. The Brazilian Football Association was dissatisfied with the appeal. After the ruling of the Supreme Court of Brazil, Ednaldo Rodriguez re-exerted the power of the chairman on January 4, 2024.

Tit was fired after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and the Brazilian Football Association wants to hire Ancelotti as the head coach of the Brazilian team. The idea at that time was that in 2023, the Brazilian team would be temporarily coached by Brazilian coaches. At the end of June 2024, after the contract with Real Madrid ended, Ancelotti would take over the Brazilian team's coaching point. But on December 29, 2023, Ancelotti renewed his contract with Real Madrid for two years, and the new contract ended on June 30, 2026. Brazilian media analyzed that due to civil strife in the Brazilian Football Association, Ednaldo Rodriguez's unstable position led to Ancelotti giving up the idea of ​​taking over the Brazilian team in June 2024 and renewing his contract with Real Madrid.

Since 2017, the Brazilian judiciary has questioned the legality of the procedure for the election of the Brazilian Football Association president. In January 2017, the Rio State Public Ministry (Procuratorate) filed a public prosecution, opposing the amendment of the Brazilian Football Association's election rules without the participation of each club. In 2022, Ednaldo Rodriguez signed a "behavioral adjustment agreement" with the Rio State Public Department, making some new adjustments to the Brazilian Football Association's election rules. On December 7, 2023, the Rio State Court declared that agreement invalid, which led to the suspension of Ednaldo Rodriguez. However, in January 2024, Gilmar Mendez, Minister of the Supreme Court of Brazil, signed an interim order to restore Ednaldo Rodriguez's position as chairman of the Brazilian Football Association.

There have been conflicts within the Brazilian Football Association. Some vice presidents oppose Ednaldo Rodriguez, hoping that the judicial department can invalidate the chairman's election election and allow Ednaldo Rodriguez to resign. On January 24, 2025, the Brazilian Football Association signed an agreement with the Brazilian Supreme Court to end the judicial dispute over the Brazilian Football Association. But then some accused that some of the signatures on the agreement, including those of a former chairman of the Brazilian Football Association and a vice chairman, were all fake, and that document had no legal effect, so Ednaldo Rogriguez was dismissed.

Brazil Football Association Chairman Ednaldo Rodriguez is in a difficult situation.

On May 7, the Supreme Court of the Brazilian Federal Court decided that Ednaldo Rodriguez would continue to serve as chairman of the Brazilian Football Association, but the agreement in January did have serious questions and will be studied in depth by the Rio State Court and a judgment will be made on May 28.

In other words, Ednaldo Rodriguez's position as chairman has been kept at least temporarily. But every time the Brazilian team selects coaches, there will always be someone coming out to make trouble, which shows that there are deep contradictions within the Brazilian Football Association. The opposition wanted to defeat Ednaldo Rodriguez, and whether Brazil's coach selection can be successful is not what they have to consider.

The Brazilian team's poor performance is not entirely the fault of the coach and the players. It must also be related to the incompetence of the Brazilian Football Association and internal struggles. According to the UOL website, the situation of the Brazilian Football Association has also attracted the attention of Ancelotti. His team has hired a law firm in Rio to inquire about whether the current situation of Ednaldo Rodriguez will affect the Brazilian Football Association's hiring him as the head coach of the Brazilian team. Ancelotti's team consulted one of Brazil's most famous law firms. Ancelotti wanted to know whether in the face of the political instability of the Brazilian Football Association, if he really signed a contract with the Brazilian Football Association, would there be judicial security guarantees? If the chairman of the Brazilian Football Association is replaced, will his contract with the Brazilian Football Association be followed by his successor.

It is precisely because of the complexity of the situation in Brazil and the political chaos within the Brazilian Football Association that some people in Brazil believe that foreign coaches like Ancelotti are not suitable to coach the Brazilian national team.

On May 6, participating in the "Galwan and Friends" program hosted by Galwan Bueno, former famous football commentator of Brazil World Cup, Dunga, who captained the fourth World Cup championship and coached the Brazilian team twice, expressed this view.

On the show, Dunga said: "I think I should be a Brazilian coach. (Ancelotti) is a great name. There are two games left in the World Cup. What do he know about Brazilian players? Although there are many Brazilian players playing in Europe, how much does he know about Brazilian culture? The pressure, the current situation, the political chaos of the Brazilian Football Association... He will be lost. He doesn't know who to communicate with, who to guide, and what he should do. I think it should He is a Brazilian coach who knows the market. He can bring four or five (former) World Cup champions to support him, and don’t let him be alone. The political part of the Brazilian Football Association must be kept away from the political part of the football team, and people who understand football have to manage the playing. Argentina did that, Italy did that, and Germany did the same. The head coach only needs to consider the team he will train, so he has to protect the coaching staff, stay away from the media and the politics of the Brazilian Football Association, so that those people can be kept away from the people."