It’s a victory for ball-winning midfielders and misfiring strikers.
Luiz Felipe Scolari’s job as manager of the Brazil national team appears to be safe despite his side’s humiliating 7-1 defeat to Germany in the World Cup semi-finals.
The president elect of the Brazil Football Confederation says that mistakes happen and he’s happy with the tournament overall, despite Brazil’s failure to progress to the final.
“To me, he stays,” Marco Polo Del Nero, told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.
“What happened was a tactical error. That was the problem. But we all make mistakes. It can happen to anyone.
“The important thing is that he did a good job. The campaign and the preparations were good. A base exists.”
Scolari himself has stressed that he wants to stay in the job, having led the Selecao to victory on the biggest stage of all in 2002.
“The first phase of my job finishes on Saturday,” Scolari told a press conference in Brasilia on the eve of the third place play-off against the Netherlands.
“After that I will prepare my report and then I will talk with the presidents. They will look at what was right and what was wrong in what I did, but I know in the last year and a half we had several good situations.
“We have to be ashamed of the 7-1. It was a catastrophe, but I have to ask the media – is everything bad because of one result?”
