{"id":5209,"date":"2026-06-24T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:00:42","slug":"world-cup-2026-scotland-v-brazil-carlo-ancelottis-quest-for-world-cup-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5209","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Scotland v Brazil – Carlo Ancelotti’s quest for World Cup glory"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It will be fascinating to see how much of the old magic Neymar can conjure, but you suspect if Brazil are to be a fixture at the business end of this tournament, it will be Vincius who will be the catalyst.<\/p>\n

Two goals in two games, including a fabulous equaliser when Brazil were 1-0 down and struggling with the all-round excellence of Morocco, has prevented an underwhelming start to the tournament becoming something more concerning.<\/p>\n

“He’s playing very well,” said Ancelotti, who managed the Brazilian star at Real Madrid before taking over the Selecao in 2025.<\/p>\n

“We need to use him even though we have other fantastic players. We have experience, quality and legs. I’m completely satisfied (in) all of them.<\/p>\n

“I have to put all the players to adapt to the style of the team.”<\/p>\n

And therein lies the genius of Ancelotti – taking the big superstars and their bigger egos and making them work as a cohesive unit.<\/p>\n

He is the most decorated manager in Champions League history with five trophies, and the only man to win titles in all of Europe’s top five leagues.<\/p>\n

But leading Brazil to World Cup success would further elevate the Italian’s claim to be the greatest manager ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It will be fascinating to see how much of the old magic Neymar can conjure, but you suspect if Brazil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}