This is the funniest cope, players enter beast mode when its the World Cup. Ahmed Musa of Nigeria used to play like prime Messi lol.
You take your best players to the WC.
This would make sense if he hadn’t already played 8 times for Brazil with these very teammates, failed to score, struggled every game & looked way off the pace.
Ancelotti called him up on 5 separate occasions to see him up close.
There’s a reason he didn’t take him in the end.