Scholari shrugs off pressure on return
30 Nov 2012 8:13 AM IST
Brazil on Thursday officially announced Luiz Felipe Scolari as their coach to lead them through to the 2014 World Cup finals on home soil, replacing Mano Menezes, sacked last week.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) named 2002 World Cup winner Scolari for a second spell at the helm as he targets a sixth world title with the auriverde in 18 months time, using next year’s Confederations Cup, also in Brazil, as a springboard.
‘It’s with great pleasure I return to involvement with the Brazilian team,’ beamed Scolari. ‘I am happy to work with people who have confidence in me and happy to have at my side someone to share in this task - that is, Parreira.
‘The World Cup project is starting off strongly,’ said ‘Felipao’. ‘The objective is clear - to win the World Cup in 2014,’ added Scolari, who insisted that ‘I don’t feel under pressure.’
‘Our sole commitment is to seek out and offer the best for our football and it is in this vein that we have chosen these two great champions, respected not just in our country but worldwide,’ CBF president Jose Maria Marin said.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) named 2002 World Cup winner Scolari for a second spell at the helm as he targets a sixth world title with the auriverde in 18 months time, using next year’s Confederations Cup, also in Brazil, as a springboard.
‘It’s with great pleasure I return to involvement with the Brazilian team,’ beamed Scolari. ‘I am happy to work with people who have confidence in me and happy to have at my side someone to share in this task - that is, Parreira.
‘The World Cup project is starting off strongly,’ said ‘Felipao’. ‘The objective is clear - to win the World Cup in 2014,’ added Scolari, who insisted that ‘I don’t feel under pressure.’
‘Our sole commitment is to seek out and offer the best for our football and it is in this vein that we have chosen these two great champions, respected not just in our country but worldwide,’ CBF president Jose Maria Marin said.
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