Brazil sticking with Tite despite World Cup flop

RIO DE JANEIRO - Tite has been handed a new contract to remain as coach of the Brazil national team until 2022, despite the team's traumatic World Cup quarterfinal exit in Russia, the Brazilian soccer federation (CBF) said on Wednesday.

"The CBF has renewed the contract with coach Tite until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar," the CBF announced on its website.

Tite is the first coach of the Brazil national team to be reappointed after a World Cup elimination since Claudio Coutinho in 1978.