The Carlos Queiroz Era

Brazil 6 - Portugal 2 is the worst result since Portugal lost to Sweden in 1958 for the same score. This from a team that just this summer made the quarter finals of the European championships.
At the risk of being redundant this team looks completely lost. The defense is a disaster, the midfielders lack creativity, [...]

Carlos Queiroz picked his assistant coaches. No big news. As in the past, he surrounds himself with inexperience at the big stage level. Not to say that the new assistant coaches don’t have the potential to be good, but this is the national team. It should not be a laboratory for experiments. The best should [...]

This blog will follow the adventures of Carlos Queiroz, the newly appointed successor to Luis Filipe Scolari. Queiroz was highly critical of Scolari’s work, so let’s see how he does in qualifying a Scolari over-achiever team to the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Let’s see if Queiroz starts by getting rid of Ricardo, finding [...]