At the 2014 World Cup, Brazil were defeated 7-1 by Germany at the semi-final stage - equaling their biggest defeat at the World Cup, the most goals conceded in their World Cup history and its first home loss in a competitive match since 1975 [REF].
On the same day, Wagner Ribeiro, the personal agent of Brazil's star player, Neymar, was reported as describing in detail to the media what he regarded as Scolari's very poor coaching career around the world, and ended by calling Scolari "an old jerk, arrogant, repulsive, conceited and ridiculous" [REF].