Dorival Junior has asked for time to complete his revamp of the Brazil national team after the Selecao's Copa America exit. (More Sports News)
Brazil, nine-time Copa America champions, lost 4-2 on p🍸enalties after a 0-0 draw with 10-man Uruguay in Las Vegas on Saturdꦛay.
Eder Militao and Douglas Luiz were unsuccessful from 12 yards, as a disappointing and often disjointed campa🧸ign for Brazil, who were without th😼e suspended Vinicius Junior, came to a halt.
Dorival left out some✨ big names for the tournament, while Neymar was absent through injury, and the coach, who was appointed in January, has reiterated the rebuild will require some patience.
He said: "We are undergoing a ver🎶y important renovation or reinvention of this team.
"I have only coached this team for 🐎eight matches and th𒉰is is a process that we have to go through.
"We are aware of the difficulties we will come across throughout the path, but we now lost a match in the knockouts and that wasn't whatꦆ we expect🐓ed."
Brazil are sixth in the South American qualification standings for the 2026 World Cup🥃, and Dorival knows the Se𓆉lecao must sharpen up.
"We have a lotꦓ of room to continue growing, evolving, improving and our main objective now is to qualify for the World Cup," he continued.
"Right now weꦯ are sixth in the standings, we are not comfortable with that."
Dorival did, however, point to Uruguay's rise back to form under Marcelo Bielsa as evidence that long-ter🥂mꦯ projects can come to fruition.
"I think the Uruguayan national team has a🌠 pattern, a very well-defined pattern," he said.
"They have been working for a long time together. They had so💟me problems at first, they corrected them.
"Now they are finding great results. I think we will achieve all that as well, not a doubt about it✨, but we need some time to make such c🌞orrections.
"We had some issues at the beginning of the tournam✨ent. I think we corrected plenty of mistakes.
"It is tough given the period of time that we had to work to try to speed up the proces🦂s. I think we'll have some more time in the future.🏅"
