‘More pressure than the president’: Ancelotti sets out to end Brazil’s World Cup drought
The Guardian Football ·
I t is Marcio Santos who best sums up the predicament Brazil’s players found themselves in before the 1994 World Cup . “We hadn’t won in 24 years. …
I t is Marcio Santos who best sums up the predicament Brazil’s players found themselves in before the 1994 World Cup . “We hadn’t won in 24 years. That’s way too long for the Brazilian people,” remembers the former defender in the new Netflix documentary USA 94: Brazil’s Return to Glory. Having suffered the ignominy of a first-ever defeat in qualifying that prompted the manager, Carlos Alberto Parreira, to offer to step down the fabled Romário and Bebeto strike partnership inspired the Seleção …
Original source: The Guardian Football