Brazil will wait for Ancelotti until next May to make his decision

Rodriguez told reporters, on the sidelines of the CBF General Assembly meeting, that he hopes to be able to announce the name of the new coach by May 25, when the list of players who will play friendly matches will be announced in June, pending the identification of the competing teams.

“Before thinking about plan B, I want to exhaust all the possibilities of plan A,” said the president of the local federation of the game, who has never hidden that Ancelotti, the current Real Madrid coach, is his first choice.

The former coach of AC Milan, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich confirmed on April 1 that the CBF wants him to be the successor to Tite, who left his post after being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Ancelotti said in a press conference, “The truth is that the Brazilian national team wants me, and this makes me happy, but I have to respect the current contract (with Real Madrid, which expires in June 2024), and it is a contract that I hope to respect until the end.”

It is expected that Ancelotti will make his final decision at the end of his season with Real, who was eliminated from the La Liga race, but qualified for the Champions League semi-finals and the King’s Cup final.

And in the event that the Italian rejects the offer of the Brazilian Federation, the latter is expected to choose between several names, most notably Fernando Djenis, the brilliant coach of Fluminense at the beginning of the season in Brazil, or the Portuguese coach Abel Ferreira, coach of Palmeiras, or his compatriot Jorge Jesus (Turkish Fenerbahçe), according to Brazilian media.