Brazil: coach Tite keeps the confidence of his federation

Rio de Janeiro – La Seleçao relies on continuity: coach Tite, in place since 2016, will remain coach of Brazil until World-2022, despite the elimination in the quarter-finals of the World Cup-2018 , the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) announced on Wednesday.
  

" The CBF renewed the contract with coach Tite (…) until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar ," the CBF said in a statement, making the he is the first coach of the national team to be re-appointed after a World Cup elimination, since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.

" The CBF invests in a long-term project to guarantee the Six and a half years in charge of La Seleçao, we believe that this careful planning will bring Brazilian football the results we expect "said CBF Executive Director Rogério Caboclo.

From 2016, the year of the arrival of Tite after the dismissal of Dunga, until the end of the year 2022 and the World Cup in Qatar scheduled in winter, it will indeed be more than six years for one and same coach, a very rare case in Brazil that puts so much pressure on his Seleçao, his stars and his leaders.

" The Federation has given us the conditions to build an environment of union and professionalism.It is a great challenge and we are happy to face it, already focused on our next matches and competitions ", responded Tite, 57, in a statement posted on the website of the CBF.

– Copa at home –

He will be on Seleçao's bench for a series of friendlies, the next against the United States, September 7, in East Rutherford (New Jersey) … Before his first big challenge: the 2019 Copa America, which will take place in Brazil.

A home competition that falls well to forget the defeat 2-1 against Belgium in quarter of the World Cup in Russia. A meeting that highlighted shortcomings tactics against the Red Devils who played the game perfectly against.

Still, Titus has some numbers for him. Since taking the reins of the Auriverdes, he has won twenty victories in 26 games, for 4 draws and only 2 losses.

He who had the hard mission to restore confidence to fans traumatized by Brazil's 7-1 humiliation against Germany at home in the semi-finals of " his " World Cup in 2014, is also to credit a remarkable course in qualifications for the 2018.

When he took the lead, the Seleçao was only sixth place of the Amsud Group, outside the qualification area.

– A dream tour of a club –

But under the leadership of the former Corinthians coach, Neymar and company have chained victories and validated their ticket to Russia three days from the end.

One of his first decisions was to remove the captain's armband at Neymar, at the request of the interested party, wishing to be relieved of some of the pressure on his shoulders.

Tite has since established a rotating captaincy, with the armband badigned to a different player in each game.

From his real name Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, Tite, a native of southern Brazil, made a modest career as a professional player before knee problems forced him to hang up his crampons.

As a coach, he began to lead small clubs in his area, before progressively climbing the ladder to cover himself with glory with the Corinthians.

At the head of the Paulista club, Tite won everything, including winning two Brazilian championships (2011 and 2015) and especially the unpublished continental title in Copa Libertadores (2012), followed by the World Club Championship, with a 1-0 win on Chelsea, Japan.

A whole people must now wish that it has the same course in selection, to become the one who will bring back in 2022 a sixth star on the shirt of the Seleçao. Twenty years after the last coronation.