We already know who will be the 26 players representing Brazil in the Qatar World Cup.
Daniel Alves is among them. Roberto Firmino isn't. Perhaps the biggest surprises of the announced list.
In a call-up, there are always controversies. There are over 200 million Brazilian "coaches" on the team to disagree with Tite.
But I would venture to say that there is no better call-up than his when it comes to the process that the current coach for the national team created to reach his final squad configuration and also to explain it.
My impression is that Tite "professionalized" the call-up.
In the interviews during the press conference to announce the 84 names that have been called up so far in the 20 call-ups of this cycle in Qatar, the coach shared the criteria for the choices and brought his coaching staff and even the medical committee to explain details that might have gone unnoticed.
Tite is not the Brazilian national team's coach for nothing. He is not there to make choices according to his personal preferences, but according to very well-established technical criteria.
Tite knows he won't please everyone. But he shows respect for the position he holds, for his people, and for the people he represents in the role of coach for the Brazilian national team.
Translated by Cassy Dias