Brazil fires Pia Sundhage after early Women’s World Cup exit

Pia Sundhage was fired as coach of the Brazilian girls’s soccer workforce on Wednesday within the wake of a disappointing efficiency on the Women’s World Cup.

Brazil failed to achieve the knockout stage for the primary time since 1995, prompting the nation’s soccer confederation to make a change.

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The 63-year-old Swede had been below contract by the 2024 Paris Olympics after changing into the nationwide workforce’s first international coach when she was employed in July 2019.

The confederation stated a alternative will probably be named within the coming days.

Local media has reported Corinthians girls’s workforce coach Arthur Elias, who has gained a number of nationwide and continental membership titles lately, is the favourite.

Sundhage beforehand led the United States girls to 2 Olympic titles. Her Brazil workforce misplaced within the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.