Everton star Richarlison has told how a prank around the latest international break from Carlo Ancelotti nearly reduced him to tears. The Blues star was named in Tite’s Selecao squad for this week’s fixtures as they look to build on their opening CONMEBOL region group victories over Bolivia and Peru. But it was a comment made by Ancelotti to Richarlison before the squad was announced that left the winger sad and almost in tears.
Richarlison said “I don’t know if Ancelotti was pranking me or not, but he told me he was going to call coach Tite to release me, Man, I was very sad. Almost cried during the training session because being here is my joy. I tell my friends I like the national team more than I like myself. There is no player in the world like Richarlison. So we have to replace him with another player with different quality. We have to change a little bit our style of play without Richarlison, but the defeat was not because Richarlison was not there. It was because we did not play well. Simple.”
