The Selecao coach Luiz Felipe Scolari still highly encourages his team and nation even after their highly disappointing 7-1 loss against Germany in their semi-final.

Although it has both been bad luck, and giving up too early, Scolari admits his faults as a coach. Nevertheless, he still urges his players to play their best for the third place match, even though it does not change anything, they can slightly raise their heads up, at least.

"I know my career will be marked by this defeat but we have an obligation to move on, thinking about the next goal, which in this case is the match for third place in Brasilia," he told a press conference.

"I know it's a much smaller dream than we all wanted but we have to honour the shirt of the national team.

"The tournament was not all bad. We had a bad defeat."

"There is nothing going through my head right now.

"I will continue with my life, the players will also continue to be winners and we must continue - you cannot end the life of the players for it.

"History will have to record that Brazil, for the first time since 2002, reached the semi-finals."

Carlos Alberto Parreira, Scolari's assistant, admitted that they have to now re-assess Brazilian football. He also said that Germany were far more advanced in all areas of the game.

"They have numerous training centres for athletes, for coaches too, and the result was seen here," said the former national team boss.

"German football is the perfect base and we now have a chance to rethink, revise and invest in better training of athletes.

"We need to improve and focus on training athletes from the clubs and give full attention to it, provide good structure and train good professionals."

This has been their worst beating in a World Cup so far, but also the first time since 2002 that they reached the semifinals.