Tite said goodbye to Brazil after their elimination against Croatia: “End of cycle, painful defeat, but I’m leaving in peace”

Tite greeted the Brazilian team with a “painful defeat” against Croatia in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar on Friday, but assured that he will leave “at peace” with himself for the work he has done over the six and a half years leading Brazil.

“Painful defeat, yet I’m at peace with myself. End of cycle”said the 61-year-old coach at a press conference after the match played at the Education City stadium.

The coach announced last February that he would leave the technical direction of the five-time champions at the end of his participation in the Qatar tournament. after taking office in June 2016 following Dunga’s sacking with the South American qualifying round already underway.

Adenor Leonardo Bachi, his official name, led the ‘Canarinha’ to the quarterfinals of Russia-2018, where they were eliminated by Belgium (2-1).

Now, in Qatar, they fall in the same stage of the tournament as they did four and a half years ago, albeit this time on penalties (4-2) after drawing 1-1 after extra time and with the clear tag of favorites for the title.

“Now it was a whole process, before it was recovery. We had a whole sequence, the performance can be judged by you,” he said.

We share the joys, we share the pains. No one but us wanted to give that joy (to the Brazilians). We have a generation that is emerging and growing stronger in the face of adversity,” she said.

Tite believed his side’s lack of effectiveness was the reason they failed to beat Luka Modric’s Croatia, who only needed one shot on target to send the match to penalties.

“We have created and lost a very large volume of clear goal definitions. Their goalkeeper was chosen as the man of the matchyou also have to give credit to them,” he said.

The coach, who aspires to continue his career in Europe, appeared before the press in the company of his assistants, Cléber Xavier and César Sampaio, and team coordinator, Juninho Paulista.

In the six-and-a-half years he’s been in charge, Brazil have lost just three competitive gameseven if all suffered: against Belgium in 2018, against Lionel Messi’s Argentina in the 2021 Copa América final at the Maracana and against Cameroon in the group stage in Qatar.

Tite greets with a title in his backpack, the Copa América 2019, and without being able to give Brazil the first World Cup in twenty years.

Source: AFP