Tite handed another shot at World Cup
IMMENSE FAITH Gets extension till 2022 Doha; first coach of Brazil to be reappointed after a World Cup elimination since Coutinho in 1978
RIODEJANEIRO: Tite was handed a new contract to remain as coach of the Brazil national team until 2022 on Wednesday despite their traumatic World Cup quarter-final exit in Russia, the Brazilian football federation (CBF) said.
“The CBF has renewed the contract with coach Tite until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar,” wrote the CBF on its website.
Tite is the first coach of the Brazil national team to be reappointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.
Brazil, with superstar Neymar i n their ranks, were regarded as one of the favourites for the 2018 World Cup but they were knocked out in the lasteight, losing 2-1 to Belgium.
“The federation has given us the conditions to build an environment of unity and profession- alism, it’s a great challenge and we are happy to face it, already focused on our next matches and competitions,” Tite said in a statement.
Tite’s first challenge will be to win the Copa America in 2019 when Brazil hosts the tournament. Brazil will begin their post-world Cup rehabilitation with a series of friendlies, the first of which is against the United States in New Jersey on September 7.
“The CBF is investing in a long-term project to guarantee the staff six-and-a-half-years in charge of La Selecao, and we believe that this careful planning will bring to Brazilian football the results we expect,” said
Saudi Arabia (group stages): Juan Antonio Pizzi
Morocco (group stages): Herve Renard
Portugal (round of 16): Fernando Santos
Denmark (round of 16): Age Hareide France (champions): Didier Deschamps
Croatia (runners-up): Zlatko Dalic Nigeria (group stages): Gernot Rohr
Brazil (quarterfinals): Tite Serbia (group stages): Mladen Krstajic
Switzerland (round of 16): Vladimir Petkovic
Germany (group stages): Joachim Loew Rogerio Caboclo, the executive director of the CBF.
Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, who is universally known by his nickname Tite, took over the Brazil job in June 2016 and immediately faced a daunting task.
The team under Dunga, who’d been fired, were an embarrassment. And Dunga himself had been hired in 2014 to resurrect a team reeling from the ultimate humilation of that 7-1 loss to Germany in the semi-finals of the World Cup on Brazilian soil.
By the time Tite took over, Brazil had already played a third of their qualifying games for the 2018 tournament and Tite wondered whether he’d have time to
England (4th place): Gareth Southgate
Senegal (group stages): Aliou Cisse
Australia (groupp stagesstages):: Bert van an Marwijk– contrac ct n extended
Argentina (round of 16): Jorge Sampaoli – sacked
Iceland (group stages): Heimir Hallgrimsson Hallgrim resigned turn the slowmotion disaster around.
Immediately after getting the job, “I said to myself... ‘What if I don’t manage to qualify?’” he told TV Globo recently.
Tite, 57, says his wife Rose looked at him in concern. “I can’t figure out what you’re thinking,” she said.
MORIYASU NAMED JAPAN COACH
TOKYO: Japan picked Olympic coach Hajime Moriyasu as their new national football boss on Thursday. The 49-year-old replaces Akira Nishino, who led the Blue Samurai to the last 16 of the World Cup in Russia in his two-month spell as caretaker coach. Former Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann had been linked to the job, along with ex-arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, but the Japan Football Association (JFA) went for a trusted insider.
The federation has given us the conditions to build an environment of unity and professionalism, it’s a great challenge and we are happy to face it.
TITE, Brazil coach
Panama (group stages): Hernan Dario Gomez – resigned
Tunisia (group stages): Nabil Maaloul – resigned (has joined Qatari club Al-duhail)
Japan (round of 16): Akira Nishino – resigned
Poland (group stages): Adam Nawalka – resigned
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Shin LONDON: Indian women are in danger of missing out on a quarter-final berth after Ireland pulled off a 1-0 victory in a hockey World Cup group league match, here on Thursday.
A 13th minute penalty-corner conversion by Anna O’flanagan was all that Ireland required as they doggedly defended to record consecutive upsets in the tournament en route a quarter-final berth. Ireland had earlier shocked world No 7 USA 3-1 in their tournament opener.
It was also India’s second consecutive defeat to Ireland having lost to the same opponents 1-2 in their last encounter at the Hockey World League Semi-finals in Johannesburg last year.
By virtue of this win, Ireland are now leading Pool B with six points, followed by England (2 points), India and USA (1) point each). Placed six places above Ireland in the world rankings at No 10, the Indians came into the match as favourites but they never looked the part. Ireland, on the other hand, grew in confidence as the match progressed and looked more threatening.
Clearly, India lacked energy and vision and with temperatures and humidity soaring, Rani Rampal and her team were caught napping by the Irish on more than one occasion.
It was not that India did not create enough chances. If they