Carl Anka

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1,124 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Are Ancelotti's Brazil serious World Cup contenders? · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And a lot of them have just been like, have you seen this Hendrick meme?

Despite the language barrier, football Twitter is largely just getting annoyed at a player who's not playing in the first team and you think he should be playing in the first team, isn't it?

It was really interesting.

So before the World Cup started, I spoke to two or three other journalists.

And as journalists often do in the pub, you go, you end up talking about football again.

One of the questions that came up was, what do you think Brazil's starting front three would be?

And this was when we thought Rafinha would play a lot more.

Perhaps the injury to Rafinha has brought some clarity to this front three.

So Vinicius on the left, Cunha up front, and then another on the right hand side.

seems to be working Cunha as the number nine dropping the linking play and Vinicius drifting inside the initial plan seems to be a 4-2-4 but it seems to be more of a 4-4-2 in certain phases and Vinicius getting really central and this is probably what Angelotti planned in that from the Real Madrid connection so that's been good Ryan had a very good game I thought against Scotland the two or three really neat touches there and yeah Hendrick can come on off the bench for 10-15 minutes not too much because Carl Angelotti doesn't like him but yeah

And while there are certain bits to Hendricks' play where you can see why Carlo Ancelotti or indeed Real Madrid are sceptical about making him a starter as a number nine.

He's relatively undersized for a centre forward in the modern age.

His link-up play isn't necessarily the best.

But there are also moments where you're looking at him and you're going, wow, that boy can hit a ball properly.

So his offside goal against Haiti was excellent.

And he does have a...

This would have been considered a bottling had the Group A results not occurred.

So it's now looking likely that Canada will be facing South Africa where initially everyone thought it was likely to be South Korea.

Now there's a higher Korean population in Los Angeles so it would have gone from being not only have you lost home advantage but also there'd been a larger contingent of quote unquote I suppose away fans?

I'm getting really confused here.

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