World Cup Brazil 2014

On July 2nd 2010, the Brazilian National Team lost to Holland, and started preparing for the World Cup 2014.

The first step is to find a new coach (Dunga and his staff were dismissed right after arriving in Brazil, back from South Africa).

According to Brazilian news, some of the candidates are Felipe Scollari (coach of the champion team of 2002), Leonardo (who played in the champion team of 1994 and had a recent and brief experience as coach of Milan AC), Vanderlei Luxemburgo (the greatest winner of titles of the Brazilian league, but who had a not very sucessful experience as coach of the National Team in 1998-2000) and others.

The decision is up to Ricardo Teixeira, President of the powerful Brazilian Confederation.

Teixeira said that he will appoint the new coach still in July 2010, for the Brazilian team already have a friendly match scheduled for August 10th 2010, against the USA team.

Update: on July 24th, Teixeira announced that Mano Menezes is the new coach of Brazil.

Update: on July 23rd 2010, Teixeira announced that Muricy Ramalhos is the new coach of Brazil.

Teixeira is also President of the World Cup Local Committee; as such, he should be very busy preparing the stadiums for 2014.

Brazil is the only country in the World which won’t have to play Qualifying for the World Cup 2014.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 1:59 pm and is filed under cbf, team.