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FIFA ranking:\u00a0<\/strong>1<\/p>\nHow they qualified:\u00a0<\/strong>CONMEBOL qualifying winners<\/p>\n2018 World Cup performance:\u00a0<\/strong>Quarter-finals<\/p>\nPrevious World Cup appearances:\u00a0<\/strong>21<\/p>\nBest result:\u00a0<\/strong>Winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nBackground<\/strong><\/h1>\nSource: New Indian Express<\/p><\/div>\n
Brazil are the bookies\u2019 favourites to go all the way at this winter\u2019s World Cup and it is not difficult to see why. Brazil are currently the only nation to have appeared in all 21 previous World Cup tournaments and are heading into the 2022 edition in perhaps the best mood since the 2014 World Cup on home soil. They not only managed to qualify as CONMEBOL qualifying winners in style \u2013 unbeaten while scoring 40 goals and conceding five \u2013 but their squad is packed full of attacking flair that will cause coach Tite selection headaches. Previous Brazil teams perhaps relied heavily on their attack, and while this Brazil team is well-stocked upfront, they are now also well-balanced defensively, conceding in only four of their 17 qualifying matches. If the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> can replicate that sort of form on the world stage, Brazil will likely be lifting their first World Cup trophy in 20 years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Coach \u2013 Tite<\/strong><\/h1>\nSource: Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n
Tite\u2019s managerial career spans over 30 years and 14 different teams. His career has primarily been spent in his native Brazil, with smaller teams such as Caxias and Veran\u00f3polis, but the Brazilian eventually climbed the managerial ladder to take charge of Brazilian heavyweight Palmeiras, Internacional, and Corinthians, before taking charge of the national team in 2016.<\/p>\n
Tite was appointed coach of the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> in the summer of 2016 after his predecessor Dunga struggled to lead the nation out of that year\u2019s Copa America group stage. Since Tite\u2019s appointment, Brazil managed to comfortably qualify for the 2018 World Cup, in which they rather disappointingly bowed out in the quarter-finals against Belgium, and win the 2019 Copa America, as well as reach the final in 2021. This will be the 61-year-old\u2019s sixth year at the helm of the national team and most likely his last, as his contract only runs until the end of the 2022 World Cup, with sources claiming he is finally ready for a challenge in European football.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n