SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Tite has confirmed that he’ll step down as Brazil’s head coach after this 12 months’s World Cup finals in Qatar.
The 60-year-old took over in 2016 and helped Brazil qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the place they had been knocked out within the quarter-finals by Belgium.
He has all the time mentioned he wished to take cost of the staff for one full “cycle” — from one World Cup till the subsequent — and confirmed that in an interview with Brazilian broadcaster Sportv on Friday.
“I’ll keep on till the top of the World Cup,” he mentioned. “There’s no cause for me to lie about it right here.”
“I’ve gained all the things in my profession and all that is left is the World Cup.”
A former supervisor of Corinthians, Gremio and Internacional, he has led Brazil in 70 video games, profitable 51 and dropping solely 5.
He led Brazil to the Copa America title on dwelling soil in 2019 however was additionally in cost final 12 months at dwelling when Brazil went down to Argentina within the last.
That 1-0 defeat is Brazil’s solely loss since November 2019.
Brazil go into the finals in Qatar as one of many favourites. They had been one of many first groups to qualify for the event which begins on Nov. 21 and are unbeaten within the South American qualifying part.
(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; writing by Andrew Downie, modifying by Pritha Sarkar)
