Carlo Ancelotti has restored confidence, but will Brazil’s 24-year World Cup drought end?
Since the last time they lifted the World Cup, Brazil have only reached the semi-finals once (AP Photo)
Brazil’s 24-year World Cup drought has made Brazilian fans deadly, with streaks of luck and accidents of luck on the rise. Their previous longest wait for a World Cup title was 24 years and that too ended on American soil. The tournament was last co-hosted (by Japan and South Korea in 2002). In 1970, they played with the leading four; Also under Carlo Ancelotti’s reign, the Italians sought to bring glory back to football’s spiritual home, after their worst qualifying campaign. He has rekindled belief and inspired belief, bringing calm to a dressing room prone to instability, but Brazil did not arrive in New Jersey as tournament favorites.