{"id":76590,"date":"2025-10-13T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76590"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:20:42","slug":"ancelotti-targets-world-cup-history-with-brazil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/ancelotti-targets-world-cup-history-with-brazil-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancelotti Targets World Cup History with Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba<\/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 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 ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76590","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76592,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76590\/revisions\/76592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}