The answer is actually that Brazilian star players nowadays get sold to European clubs at too young an age, depriving them of the important development stage of jogo bonito and sexual depravity required for true Brazilian football excellence.
a lot is made of brazil’s football culture where babies pop out the womb doing round the worlds but it has built an entire country of people too egotistical to play full back or scrappy poaching 9 and that’s why they’ll never win another WC