We are days away from the start of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and former football greats are picking their favorites for the most expensive final tournament in history.

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This is also the case of Ricardo Kaká, a former Brazil international who won the Ballon d’Or in 2007 while playing for AC Milan.

In an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, the Brazilian talked about the World Cup in Qatar and who are the top 3 favorites to win this competition.

Brazil, Kaka’s favorite at the World Cup in Qatar 2022. What a surprise he sees

Having made 92 appearances for Brazil’s national football team and scored 29 goals, Kaka has not hesitated to say that the Seleção are the main favorites to win the World Cup.

At the same time, the Brazilian also specified who, in his opinion, will be the surprise of this final tournament. In addition, Kaka also revealed who are two other picks who can claim to win the World Cup.

“Brazil is the favorite because there is a group that has been working together for a long time. Choosing Tite as coach was an inspired decision. Other contenders for the title are Argentina and France, but Serbia could be a surprise.” – said Kaka.

Serbia, a difficult mission in Qatar

Even if the national team coached by Dragan Stojkovic has a good and valuable squad, the group does not favor the Serbs, who will face Brazil, Cameroon and Switzerland (Romania’s opponents in the preliminary stage of Euro 2024).

The national team of Serbia at the World Cup

Goalkeepers:

Marko Dmytrovych (Seville), Predrag Rajkovich (Mallorca), Vanja Milinkovich-Savic (Torino)

Defenders:

Stefan Mitrovic (Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina), Strahinja Pavlovic (Salzburg), Milos Velkovic (Werder Bremen), Filip Mladenovic (Legia, Warsaw), Strahinja Erakovic ( Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade), Srdan Babic (Almeria).

Midfielders:

Nemanja Gudel (Seville), Serhii Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Sasha Lukic (Torino), Marko Grujic (Porto), Filip Kostic (Juventus), Uros Racic (Braga), Nemanja Maksimovic (Getafe), Ivan Ilic (Hellas Verona) ), Andrija Zhivkovych (PAOK Thessaloniki), Darko Lazovich (Hellas Verona)

attackers:

Dusan Tadic (Ajax), Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus), Filip Duricic (Sampdoria), Luka Jovic (Fiorentina), Nemanja Radonic (Torino)