Under-fire Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari insists he will lead the World Cup hosts into Saturday's third-fourth place play-off and beyond, despite their embarrassing 7-1 semi-final humbling to Germany last night.
Brazil were left dumbstruck after shipping five goals in the opening 29 minutes and conceded twice more when Chelsea forward Andre Schurrle came off the bench to add to Toni Kroos's brace.
That, and strikes from Sami Khedira, Miroslav Klose and Thomas Muller, inflicted the Selecao's joint all-time heaviest defeat.
Yet Scolari, who led Brazil to the last of their five World Cup triumphs in 2002, is adamant he will not offer his resignation.
"Will I continue as Brazil manager? I'm in no doubt about that," he said.
"I will be remembered as the coach to lose 7-1, but I knew that risk when I took the job.
"I did what I thought was the correct thing to do [in this game]. It's a catastrophic, ugly defeat, the worst ever, but we are looking ahead to the future.
"In 2002 we won, here we lost. I was the one who chose the team. We shouldn't forget that we have a game on Saturday to get through."
Brazil were booed off by supporters in Belo Horizonte, who showed Germany generous appreciation after they became the first team ever to score seven in a World Cup semi-final.
But with an eye on restoring some national pride in Saturday's meeting against the loser from tonight's second semi-final between Holland and Argentina, Scolari has begged the Brazilian public for their forgiveness.
"My message for the Brazilian people is please excuse us for this performance," added the 65-year-old.
"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."
