Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted on Friday that a traumatic last six weeks both on and off the field will mark him for the rest of his life.
"Lots of things have changed and have impacted on my life for better or for worse. In the coming days I will try to get on with my life, that I have left behind a little bit in recent days," said Scolari ahead of Saturday`s World Cup third-place play-off against the Netherlands in Brasilia.
"I will talk a bit with my family about everything that happened and get on with my life as normal, although of course it will not be the same.
"Nothing will be the same as it was before the squad got together," he added.
Brazil`s World Cup dream was left in tatters when they suffered a record 7-1 defeat to Germany in Tuesday`s semi-final in Belo Horizonte, with Scolari labelling that day as the worst of his life.
But he has experienced tragedy off the field too. Just days before Brazil`s first World Cup match last month, he discovered that his nephew had been killed in a car crash.
That came just weeks after his brother-in-law died in similar circumstances.
Scolari`s contract as Brazil coach will run out after Saturday`s match, although there have been suggestions that the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) might ask him to stay on until the end of the year.
"My job began and ends with the World Cup. Tomorrow (Saturday) brings this phase to a close," he said at a press conference at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium.
"After that we will look at what I did right and wrong. In about a year and a half there have been a lot of very good things - we can`t only look to the result of one match.
"We can`t say the whole job was badly done because of one result," added Scolari, who said that he had not had any discussions regarding his future with current CBF president Jose Maria Marin or the incoming president Marco Polo.
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