Brazil is entrusted to Felipão

The CBF surprised more than one a week ago with the announcement of the removal of Mano Menezes as coach of the Brazilian. A year and a half of a quote for Brazilians is more than just a football competition, the World Cup to be held in Brazil in 2014, the CBF took a very important decision: to dismiss the coach enough time for his successor to be the minimum time to develop a project in order to regain the world title.

The chosen was Luiz Felipe Scolari, the coach who led the Canarinha win their last World Cup, the Korea-Japan 2002. Crate falls from memory will last golden age weighed heavily in the decision but we are also talking about a coach whose career has been in decline for the past ten years. Felipão Will he return to build a winning team?

After his departure from the Green-Amarela, Scolari repeated by taking the reins of the Portuguese in 2003. Passo Fundo coach led the Portuguese to the final combined Euro 2004 held in Portugal, where he lost in the final against the surprising and Greek Selection forgettable. Two years later, the World Cup in 2006, led to the selection led by Cristiano Ronaldo and the semifinals, but ended up losing the match for third place, achieved a milestone that lived from Inglaterra'66 Portugal, with the great Eusebio.

After losing in the quarter-final Euro'08, Scolari left the Portuguese to take command in his first major European club, Chelsea FC. He was dismissed in February 2009, just eight months after arriving in London. The dismissal was not too bad, it took an indemnity of 15 million pounds, a sum so exorbitant that his next step in football becomes even more difficult to understand.

Having failed at Chelsea, Scolari took towards Uzbekistan, to occupy the bench of Bunyodkor, the club of the Czarina Gulnara Karimova, that friend of Laporta of which we talked about earlier, where Rivaldo played then. Money certainly not lacking so you know what is the good of Felipão lost in Central Asia, but the fact is that he won a League.

In the summer of 2010 he returned to SE Palmeiras, the club he had won the Copa Libertadores in 1999 (tournament had already raised with the Grêmio in 94). Gotta win the Taça 2012 but just months after he was fired, but not before becoming the second most capped coach alviverde club.

Now back to the Selection Scolari Canarinha to redirect a course that Menezes did not quite pick up speed. Felipão is reputed to send with an iron fist, a circumstance to be weighed in the decision CBF when replacing a coach who had a profile much more moderate in all aspects. Do not forget that Scolari was the coach of the national team that took Romario and more pressures received by the local press, was not intimidated and hoped that the triple-A, at the time, responded to the achievement of the fifth world title for Brazil: the crack even then Barca Rivaldo, the recently out of a serious injury, Ronaldo, and the young star PSG , Ronaldinho Gaúcho.

As mentioned earlier, for Brazil World Cup to be played in their land is much more than a World Cup either. It is the first step in its global launch as a new power, two years before hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil wants to prove they are a country that does not have anything to envy anyone in their organization, but also want to win a World Cup to enhance its image in the world and bring them back to the highest point of a sport considered slightly less than a religion.

The quality of the raw material with which it currently is far Scolari had it in 2002. The current Canarinha not have two global stars Ronaldo and Rivaldo level, because although Neymar has more than demonstrated that it is a crack, I put in an intermediate level than a decade ago were Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, for the latter, precisely meant Japón'02 Korea and worldwide presentation. But it also does not have a captain with the recognition and extraction of Cafu, and it is clear that Marcelo, though one of the best left-backs today, nor is Roberto Carlos.

All I see now more than selectable Scolari is that the 2002 champion did not have a profile striker Hulk. Will have to see what role he assigns his coach: if you tilt the team to play for him or if he will have to adapt to the style of Neymar gambetero, Oscar and company. Another point to consider is whether to give the point Felipão romantic, exotic or call directly lunatic Kaka, who could become the common thread between the champions of the future selection Yokohama and 2014.