Tim Vickery
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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And I think he is hoping that in the business end of the tournament, as it wears on, as Neymar acquires a little bit of a rhythm, of a match rhythm,
And as people get tired, as opponents get tired by exposure to the number of games and the number of games in extreme heat that may become the business end in perhaps little cameo roles, Neymar will be able to tip the balance.
But it is a leap of faith.
Well, remember, it's been 24 years since they won the World Cup.
So the Brazilian public, they're a strange mixture of kind of spoiled by too much success and frustrated by not a lot of success in recent times.
There's a whole generation of young adult Brazilians who've never seen...
their country be world champions.
And remember, every campaign since the last win in 2002 has ended when they've come up against a European team in the knockout stages.
One of the reasons they've got a European at the helm now.
Ancelotti himself is starring in an advert that shows a newspaper headline, a poll saying that 72% of Brazilians don't believe they're going to win this year.
But let me tell you, this is an extremely manic, depressive sporting culture.
It can go from we are hopeless, we have absolutely no chance, we're humiliating ourselves, to we are unstoppable, no one can lay a glove on us within 20 seconds.
And maybe that process has just started it tonight.
Well, he's only there because he wants to win.
And he knows, I spoke to him the day that he was appointed, and he knows that success in this job is winning the World Cup and failure is anything else.
Now, he's very shrewdly managed to get himself a contract up until the 2030 World Cup before this one started.
So he's got himself covered.
Oh, he's a smart cookie, Carlo Bancelotti.
This is not his first rodeo.
No, but he thinks they can win.
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