For the national team or the youth academy? The current talent pool is shocking.
Actually it's not shocking, it only looks worse regarding their own past, but they still have great quality players.
The thing with Brasil are that:
1. They are starting to feel too much the pressure like prior to'94, when this stuff happens they struggle to find an squeme and coach that actually can deal with the huge pression it's to manage Brasil.
2. People think having almost everyone playing in Europe is a great advanatge (see Mexico nowadays and their wrong assumption that having everyone playing in Europe would solve all of their NT problems): IT'S NOT.
It's sthg inevitable in these days since time, it has like everything its positives, but it has a lot of disadvantages too. It's really relly hard to make a TEAM (not just names in a list) under such conditions even if players are doing their trait in some Elite Euro competition.
3. Not really shocking "names", but not a pletora of magnificient, phenoms or genius players like in the past. Yet even in those days it isn't like Ronaldinho set the world on fire with the NT, or Kaka, or even Rivaldo was close to be killed in public place prior to 2002 being very questioned or how they shifted in 94 to a more pragmatic approach or how Dunga did the same in more recent years like in Copa 2007.
Anyway, you always have to FIND a TEAM, sometimes might be full of phenoms, sometimes a mix, sometimes just a team of very good players, but names in a list never work per se and many times when names are too big and have very predominant roles in their clubs is hard to make those fellas work together with very few training.
PD: the only real advantage they have in terms of initially not needing too much training it's having Rodri and Vini in Madrid playing together, but sometimes when sthg doesn't work, it just doesn't work. Anyway, it just started, plenty of time to have a lot better perfomances even with all these "problems" in the next games.
