At the head of the selection since 2016, the coach of the Selecao will give up his place after the world.
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It’s almost finished. The Brazilian coach, Tite, will leave his post after the 2022 World Cup scheduled for the end of the year in Qatar, he announced on Friday February 25, during an interview on the Brazilian channel Sportv.
“I am very focused on my work. I know that football is made of cycles and I had a unique opportunity to find myself in this position, when many other top professionals also had the capacity.“, he added.
Adenor Leonardo Bachi took the reins of the Seleçao in 2016, after Dunga was sacked and eliminated in the first round of the centenary Copa América. Under his leadership, Neymar and his teammates qualified with flying colors for the 2018 World Cup. Arriving with the label of favorites in Russia, the Brazilians could not however win the sixth star expected by all in the country since 2002 They were eliminated by Belgium (1-2) in the quarter-finals.
Freshly recovered from injury, Neymar did not live up to the expectations placed on him during the competition. It was without the Parisian player, still injured, that Tite won his first and only title at the head of the Seleçao, the Copa América played at home in 2019.
For the 2022 World Cup, Brazil dominated the qualifiers, securing their qualification five days from the end. Tite’s team will once again be among the favorites to win the competition.