Brazil fire coach Dorival Junior amid poor results
CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues confirmed Junior’s departure at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, signaling the beginning of yet another coaching hunt.
Tite is the first coach of the Brazil national team to be re-appointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.
AFP | Rio de Janeiro | July 26, 2018 10:11 am
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Tite will remain as Brazil coach until 2022 despite the team’s shock World Cup quarter-final exit in Russia, the country’s football federation (CBF) announced.
“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.
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Tite is the first coach of the Brazil national team to be re-appointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.
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CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues confirmed Junior’s departure at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, signaling the beginning of yet another coaching hunt.
Neymar, defender Thiago Silva and striker Gabriel Jesus didn’t play against Ecuador at the Olimpico Stadium in Goiania.
It was during the course of the friendly match between Brazil and Argentina that Messi gestured towards Brazil coach Tite asking him to ‘shut up’.
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