Episode 3248: Brazil Turns Its Lonely Eyes To Carlo
Today Tim Vickery joins us to talk about Carlo Ancelotti taking over as the new coach of Brazil.
Why have the five-time World Cup winners taken the radical step of hiring the first foreign full-time coach in their history? What attracted Ancelotti to the job? And most mysteriously of all, where have the Brazilian midfield playmakers gone? Tim outlines a theory…
We also talk about Heimir’s PLEDGE that none of his players will be on holidays next June, plus some of the week’s transfer news and speculations.
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