So my predictions for the Olympics were almost entirely backwards. I thought the Brazil women’s team would win a medal, and they ended up losing in the quarterfinals; I expected the men’s team would flame out early on, and they won the friggin’ gold medal. Let that say what it will about my powers of prediction.

Anyway, tomorrow (August 13th), Tite will call up the squad for Brazil’s next round of World Cup qualifiers, so let’s try and predict what he’ll do, based upon who did well at the Olympics!

There’s an interesting wrinkle to this upcoming set of qualifiers: thanks to previous COVID-necessitated cancellations, CONMEBOL is cramming three games into the FIFA date instead of the usual two. So we’re playing Chile away on September 2, Argentina at home on the 5th, and then Peru at home on the 9th. I wonder if that’ll compel Tite to call up a couple of extra players? I mean, he didn’t do it for the Copa América, so…

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