Tite 2022: Why Brazil should follow the Spain and Germany's example and ditch the short-termism

"To have this continuity is always good," said Julen Lopetegui. He was grinning, and for good reason: his contract as Spain coach has just been extended, meaning that he will lead La Furia Roja throughout the Euro 2020 cycle, no matter what happens at the World Cup.

Spain are not the only team to have acted on their 2020 vision in recent weeks. Roberto Martínez will remain in the Belgium hotseat beyond Russia ("I feel that the job is not done, whatever happens in the World Cup"), while Germany, ever the pace-setters, have gone a step further, tying Joachim Löw down for four more years.

At which point, enter Brazil, spiritual home of managerial instability and literal home of a national-team coach who, for all his evident brilliance, will be unemployed in July as things stand.

In my latest for Unibet, I look at the CBF's odd reluctance to embrace a long-term project, and – in the doomed hope that they might be reading – implore them to reconsider.