Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari described Brazil’s 7-1 semi-final defeat as the worst day of his life. “I will be remembered as the coach to lose 7-1 but I knew that risk when I took the job,” he said.

“I’m sorry that we weren’t able to get to the final and we’re going to try to win the third-place match. We still have something to play for. Please excuse us” said the coach while apologizing to Brazilians.

“My message is that the Brazilians did what we could and what we thought was the best. We played against a great team with great skills and we lost. Germany took just six minutes to change the game with an outrageous manner,” Scolari stated at the press conference after the game.

Also, he tool full responsibility for what happened and said that “this devastated result may be shared between the whole team, because this is what the players will say, but the person who decided the line-up, the tactics, was me. It was my choice.”

When asked about the absence of Neymar and if that was one of the reasons of Brazil’s defeat, he said: “Let’s not try to find an excuse in Neymar”.