Tite keeps Brazil job despite World Cup flop
RIO DE JANEIRO: Adenor Leonardo Bacchi also known as Tite was handed a new contract to remain as coach of the Brazil national team until 2022 on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) despite their traumatic World
football federation (CBF) said.
“The CBF has renewed the contract with coach Tite until the end of the 2022 World
team to be re-appointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.
Brazil, with superstar Neymar in their ranks, was regarded as one of the favorites for the 2018 World Cup but they were knocked out in the last-eight, losing 2-1 to Belgium.
“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, already focused on our next matches and
Copa America in 2019 when Brazil hosts the tournament.
Brazil will begin their post-World Cup rehabilitation with a series of friendlies, the
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
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.
was an embarrassment. And Dunga himself reeling from the ultimate humiliation of that 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 turn the slow-motion disaster around.
Immediately after getting the job, “I said to