Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazil's
football confederation (CBF) will not renew national coach Luiz Felipe
Scolari's contract, local media
reported early Monday, just hours after
Germany defeated Argentina to win the 2014 World Cup.
Scolari
said that he would let the CBF decide his fate after his team lost the
game for third place 3-0 to the Netherlands on Saturday, and after being
crushed by Germany in a humiliating 7-1 defeat on Tuesday.
Tuesday's
performance was the country's worst defeat since losing the 1950 final
game to Uruguay in a tournament held in Brazil, a black mark on the
nation's psyche known as the Maracanazo.
Scolari,
best known by his nickname Felipao, led Brazil to a World Cup victory
in 2002 in Japan. He took over the team in December 2012, just before
Brazil hosted the Confederations Cup.
Brazil won that tournament, seen as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup, 3-0 in a final match over reigning champions Spain.
Brazil then began preparing for what they hoped would be a sixth World Cup trophy and their first Cup victory at home.
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