RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Tite was handed a new contract to remain as coach of the Brazil national football team until 2022 despite their traumatic World Cup quarterfinal exit in Russia, the Brazilian Football Federation said.
“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.
Tite is the first coach of the Brazil national team to be re-appointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.
Brazil, with superstar Neymar in their ranks, was regarded as one of the favorites for the 2018 World Cup, but they were knocked out in the Last Eight, losing 2-1 to Belgium.
“The federation has given us the conditions to build an environment of unity and professionalism, it’s a great challenge and we are happy to face it, already focused on our next matches and competitions,” Tite said in a statement.
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Tite’s first challenge will be to win the Copa America in 2019 when Brazil hosts the tournament.
Brazil will begin its post-World Cup rehabilitation with a series of friendlies, the first of which is against the United States in New Jersey on September 7.
“The CBF is investing on a long-term project to guarantee the staff six-and-a-half-years in charge of La Selecao and we believe that this careful planning will bring to Brazilian football the results we expect,” said Rogerio Caboclo, the executive director of the CBF.
Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, who is universally known by his nickname Tite, took over the Brazil job in June 2016 and immediately faced a daunting task.
The team under Dunga, who had been fired, was an embarrassment. And Dunga himself had been hired in 2014 to resurrect a team reeling from the ultimate humilation of that 1-7 loss to Germany in the semifinals of the World Cup on Brazilian soil.
By the time Tite took over, Brazil had already played a third of their qualifying games for the 2018 tournament and Tite wondered whether he’d have time to turn the slow-motion disaster around.
Immediately after getting the job, “I said to myself… ‘What if I don’t manage to qualify?’” he told TV Globo recently.
Tite, 57, says his wife Rose looked at him in concern. “I can’t figure out what you’re thinking,” she said.
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