Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola
dreams of coaching the Brazil national team
sometime in the future, according ex Santos
and AS Roma goalkeeper Julio Sergio.
Sergio, who worked under Guardiola at
Bayern early this year, has started his own
managerial career and revealed that the
Spaniard would have liked to have coached
Brazil at the 2014 World Cup.
Guardiola was previously linked with the
Brazil job after Mano Menezes was sacked in
2012, but the Brazil FA decided not to let a
foreigner lead the host nation at their home
World Cup, so they appointed Luiz Felipe
Scolari instead.
"He told me that he had a dream of one day
coaching the national team, and he would
accept the offer without thinking," Sergio told
ESPN Brasil.
"He said he had wanted to lead Brazil at the
2014 World Cup, and guaranteed that, if he
had been the Selecao coach, and had
Neymar, they would have been champions."
The former keeper also had positive things to
say about his mentor and revealed why he is
so respected.
"The guy lives football 24 hours a day. The
players there really love him."