Ancelotti assessing Brazil squad for World Cup

Brazil manager Carlo Ancelotti said he is assessing players and organizing logistics ahead of this year's FIFA World Cup in North America.

The five-time champion will begin its Group C campaign against Morocco on June 13 before facing Haiti on June 19 and Scotland on June 24.

"It is a joy to have time to prepare for this important event for Brazil," the 66-year-old Italian said in an interview published on the Brazilian Football Confederation's (CBF) official website on Tuesday.

"It is a great motivation and a great responsibility to try to do the best possible. I am sure that we will have a World Cup of a very high level."

The CBF announced in January that Brazil would use the Columbia Park complex in Morristown, New Jersey, as its main training facility during the tournament.

Ancelotti said he and his staff were continuing to monitor players ahead of friendlies later this month. The Selecao will meet France in Boston on March 26 and Croatia in Orlando five days later.

"We have been planning the logistics, organization, the training center, the hotel, so now we have to evaluate the players who are playing, those who are injured and those who are recovering," he said.

"It is a moment of observation. Obviously we have to do well in the friendlies with France and Croatia and observe the matches of the players who could be at the World Cup in June."