{"id":76575,"date":"2025-10-13T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76575"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:14:11","slug":"ancelotti-targets-world-cup-history-with-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/ancelotti-targets-world-cup-history-with-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancelotti Targets World Cup History with Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s head coach, Carlo Ancelotti, says he is determined to make history by becoming the first foreign-born manager to win the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian, who took charge of Brazil in May, guided the five-time champions to qualification for next year\u2019s tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of Tuesday\u2019s friendly against Japan in Tokyo, following a 5-0 victory over South Korea, Ancelotti said, \u201cNo foreign-born coach has ever won the World Cup, but there\u2019s always a first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised his players\u2019 blend of skill and teamwork, describing their performance as a return to \u201cbeautiful football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Selec\u00e3o will be without star forward Neymar, sidelined with a thigh injury, but Ancelotti expressed confidence in his potential return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Neymar is fit, he can play in any team in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Brazil\u2019s head coach, Carlo Ancelotti, says he is determined to make history by becoming the first foreign-born manager to win the FIFA World Cup. The Italian, who took charge of Brazil in May, guided the five-time champions to qualification for next year\u2019s tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76577,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575\/revisions\/76577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}