Outside the Cup, the team will return to the field, with a new coach, in March 2023

With the elimination in the Qatar Cup, the Brazilian team goes into recess.

He will wait for the definition of the new coach by the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), since Tite said goodbye in the match against Croatia, to start the cycle with a view to the next World Cup, which will be in 2026 in three host cities (USA, Mexico and Canada). .

With the year already at an end, European players return to their home clubs for normal life, training, as the championships are in progress, having been temporarily paralyzed due to the World Cup.

In England, where 12 of the 26 players selected by Tite for the Qatar World Cup, including starters Alisson, Thiago Silva, Casemiro, Lucas Paquetá and Richarlison, the Premier League restarts on the 26th of this month, eight days after the Cup final.

Neymar’s PSG will enter the field for the French Championship on the 28th; in Espanyol, Real Madrid (of Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo and Éder Militão) will play on the 30th, and Barcelona (of Raphinha), on the 31st.

The few athletes who defend Brazilian clubs (Everton Ribeiro and Pedro, from Flamengo, and Weverton, from Palmeiras), must have a rest period before returning to prepare for the 2023 season – the state championships start on the 15th of January.

All 26 called up for the Cup in Qatar will be waiting for the next call, with the team under new management, in order to know whether or not they remain prestigious after the failure in the Middle East.

The first squad list should be announced at the beginning of March, with a view to the games that should be played on the first FIFA date of 2023, from the 20th to the 28th of the third month of the year.

The Brazilian team will also play in June, September, October and November, according to the dates provided by Fifa.

Conmebol (South American Football Confederation) has not yet released the full selection schedule for the next year(s), so it is necessary to wait to find out when the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers will start.

It is only known that the Copa America will be in 2024 – Ecuador was chosen as the host, but may withdraw.

For the World Cup in Qatar, the qualifying dispute between the ten South American teams began in October 2020, just over two years before the start of this year’s Cup.

With the expansion of the World Cup participants in North America, from 32 to 48 countries, the number of South American vacancies rose.

The top six in the Qualifiers will qualify (up to now there were four), and the seventh will play in a repechage with a selection from another region.

Thus, only a tragedy will prevent Brazil, whatever the coach and whatever the players, from qualifying for the next Cup, when it will try again to be six times champion.