The Brazilian national team is currently the only team to become a five-time world champion in football. This country is famous for its large number of talented players who have won many trophies for Selesao in the past, continue to win today and will certainly help continue the tradition in the future.

It is no accident that at every serious football tournament, the attention of a large number of fans is always riveted to the Brazilian national team. His game is divided into “cogs”, and any trifles are discussed – from the banal everyday aspects of the locker room or the bus, to the “spicy” details of the personal life of each player.

The coach does not stand aside either. The figure of the mentor of Selesao is almost political in Brazil, because a lot in football depends on the will of this person, and this game is a cult for the whole country.

Now the head coach of the Brazilian national team is Tite, 61, who has no previous experience working with national teams. The specialist was appointed to the post at Selesao in the summer of 2016, and under his leadership, the Brazilians have already played in one World Cup – when they reached the quarter-finals in 2018, where they lost to Belgium (1: 2). Contrary to expectations, Tite was not fired, but continued his studies and now Selesao will be lucky for the second World Cup as the coach of the national team.

But on the eve of the tournament in Qatar, the Brazilian press and the football community once again raises the question of who is among the head coach’s assistants. In particular, some journalists openly accuse Tite of nepotism, as he lobbied for the appointment of his mentor, 33-year-old own son, Matheus Bachi, as one of his assistants.

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Matheus Baci never played football at a professional level, but he started helping his father around the time he took over Corinthians. Later, when his mentor moved to Selesao, he took the core of the coaching team with him, not forgetting his own son.

Kléber Xavier, 58, is Tite’s chief assistant for the Brazilian national team. This expert has been working with Tite since the rather distant 2001. Later, Xavier agreed to become one of the assistants to the current head coach of Selesao in Gremio, after which he accompanied Tite wherever he worked – San Cayetana, Corinthians, Atlético Mineiro, Palmeiras, Al-Aine”, “Internacionale”, ” Al-Wahde” and again “The Corinthians”.

In addition to Xavier and Bachi, Tite’s headquarters in the Brazilian national team have three other specialists – Claudio Taffarel, 56, who trains goalkeepers, Fabio Mahserejan, 55, who combines his position at Seleçao with his work at Liverpool, responsible for the recent call-up of the head coach to the national team. for the physical education of football players, as well as Cesar Sampaio, 54, who assisted in the search and evaluation of personnel for

And if in Brazil there are practically no objections and doubts about the older and more experienced specialists who helped Tita, the candidacy of 33-year-old Matheus Bachi causes a sharp resonance and controversy. Objectors attribute the presence of Tite’s son in the “selesao” camp only to the fact that an experienced specialist has been trying all his life to somehow “enlighten” the offspring, so that when it comes time to retire, continue to exist comfortably in Football and have this money for a comfortable old age. have it.

Therefore, Tita is forced to literally fight with journalists about the qualities and significance of her own son for the coaching staff of the national team …

“The figure and role of Matheus Baci is often underestimated either because of me or because people do not properly study his work and education. Perhaps critics should ask this question and watch where and how Matheus works? What is his role in the coaching staff? We’ll have to explain so they can leave us alone in the future. Responsible for dead balls (i.e. when there are pauses in play followed by ball kicks, goal kicks, free kicks, free kicks and corner kicks, as well as penalties – ed.). With the help of photographs or tablets, Matheus prepares didactic materials that mark the places that our football players should occupy in certain situations.”

In addition, Selesao mentor believes that it has nothing to do with professionalism that he and his son are criticized only on the basis of the family relationships that exist between them.

“Did I realize we were going to face something like this? Yes, I think it was inevitable. Matheus and I have a very good relationship and mutual understanding. He carries the weight of the father’s name and I bear the weight of the son’s name. But tell me: a doctor can’t be a good doctor boy “And a musician can’t have a talented musician son? Matheus is good for football jobs. I insist on that – he’s not bad, he’s very good.

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In a recent conversation with journalists, he fully supports his boss and Kleber Xavier, who are trying to evaluate Matheus Bachi’s work more broadly, claiming that he is an “outsider” person with sober values.

“I have a name and a reputation for having worked with Tite for a long time. Cesar Sampaio, captain of the national team, has them, as does Claudio Taffarel. Matheus doesn’t have anything like this yet, but he has the same level of professionalism as us. The coaching staff of the Brazilian national team is not showing off about it.”

“Matheus is doing a very important job. His area of ​​responsibility includes dead balls – both offensive and defensive situations. And I can say that he did his job very well. During training in the field, he appears more often than Tite than me, Cesar Sampaio. He is in constant dialogue with the players. In his person, I can say that we have an excellent coach for the future because he prepared himself for the highest level with the school he received behind him. When Matheus first came to work in Corinthians, he no longer looked like a teenager who didn’t understand anything. On the contrary, by then he had completed his internship with Wanderlei Lushemburgo, had visited and learned from his existing work experience in Shakhtar and Barcelona… He approaches his work in an incredibly responsible way.”

“What can I say about the fact that Matheus is Tite’s son? Only Ancelotti’s son (Davide, 33, helps his father and is part of the Real Madrid coaching staff – ed.), Dorival Junior’s son (Lucas Silvestre, part of his father’s coaching staff) is very good at understanding football. “Flamengo” – ed.). Because they are sons of star fathers, they are not in the profession, ”said Kléber Xavier.

Are the arguments of Tite and Kléber Xavier convincing to critics? Tough. However, the current Selesao mentor, his son, and the entire coaching team can silence the ill-wishers. To do this, you need to win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which made Brazil the six-time world champion.

Interestingly, at the end of February, Tite announced his resignation as head coach of the Brazilian national team after the tournament in Qatar: “I will stay with the national team until the end of the World Cup and I have no reason to lie. . I’ve won everything in my career, the only thing missing is winning the World Championship.”

And what is even more interesting is the fact that the current Flamengo coach Dorival Junior’s Selesao is increasingly and actively seeking the position of head coach, which means something – with a high probability and the next coaching team of Brazil in the national team. There will be a father and a helping son at the same time. Does that mean we can expect a new series of nepotism accusations? To be continued…