Brazil's future boss backs Scolari

The incoming Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) boss has backed beleaguered Luiz Felipe Scolari to stay on as coach despite Brazil's humiliating World Cup exit.

"For me, he stays," CBF president elect Marco Polo Del Nero, told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper.

"What happened was a tactical error. That was the problem. But we all make mistakes. It can happen to anyone.

"The important thing is that he did a good job. The campaign and the preparations were good. A base exists."

Scolari's team bowed out of their own World Cup in astonishing fashion when they were mauled 7-1 by Germany in the semi-final.

Home fans left the Estadio Mineirao with just half an hour gone and some of those who remained burned a Brazil flag in protest.

Scolari will meet with Del Nero and current CBF president Jose Maria Marin following Saturday's (Sunday AEST) the third place playoff against the Netherlands.

Scolari said he had no idea whether the words of the president in waiting, who takes over next April, meant he would definitely stay on.

"The first phase of my job finishes on Saturday," Scolari told a press conference in Brasilia on the eve of the playoff.

"After that I will prepare my report and then I will talk with the presidents. They will look at what was right and what was wrong in what I did, but I know in the last year-and-a-half we had several good situations.

"We have to be ashamed of the 7-1 (defeat). It was a catastrophe, but I have to ask the media - is everything bad because of one result?"

Captain Thiago Silva said Scolari had improved Brazil during his time in charge and he urged the Brazilian people not to "crucify" the coach.

"You can't crucify him for a mistake or any other reason," Silva said.

"We are together. We are one. Everyone is responsible for what happened.

"The defeat we had wasn't his fault - the players were playing.

"My group, we really trust him and we have learned and developed in last year-and-a-half."

Scolari sees Saturday's (Sunday AEST) match against the Netherlands, who lost to Argentina on penalties in their semi-final, as a chance to lift the spirits of the South American nation.

"Hopefully we can give the Brazilian people a bit of happiness," the former Chelsea manager said.

"I know my career will be marked by this defeat, but we have an obligation to move on and think about the next goal, which in this case is the match for third place on Saturday in Brasilia.

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