Following Carlo Ancelotti's rejection of the position, Brazil is allegedly in negotiations with Jose Mourinho about being their new manager.
The five-time World Cup champions were one among the favourites to win this year's competition in Qatar, but Tite's team was eliminated by Croatia on penalties in the semifinals.
The manager of Brazil abruptly ended his six-year tenure as coach of the national team two hours after the shocking loss.
There will be a vacancy at the top of one of the greatest footballing nations, and Mourinho is reportedly viewed as someone who may fill it.
It is said that Ednaldo Rodrigues, president of the Brazilian FA, dispatched a delegate to Europe to look for the best foreign coaches that were available.
Ancelotti was considered a possibility for Brazil but he doesn't want to leave Real Madrid until his contract expires in 2024 unless he gets fired.
And now, La Repubblica says that Brazil and Jorge Mendes have started preliminary negotiations over a transfer for Mourinho.
Mourinho said that it would be "interesting" to coach Brazil in the future while he was in charge of Manchester United in 2017.
“I think following Manchester United I need an easier job than Manchester United, and coaching the Brazilian team should be more difficult,” he said at the time.
“Obviously it would be exciting, any coach wants to work with the best clubs and with the best.
“The Brazilian team is obviously a leader of success, obviously with talent, no matter what the generation, talent always appears.
“But I have to confess that it must be difficult, in every Brazilian there is a coach, in each journalist there is a better coach than the coach.
“I think it must be a difficult country to work for, but also a passionate one.”
There has been much speculation over the former Chelsea manager’s future – with his home nation Portugal also interested in snatching him from the Italian giants following the sacking of Fernando Santos.
The latest reports in Italy indicate that Roma do not want Mourinho to leave the club – and the manager is under contract until 2024.
Last week, Corriere dello Sport reported that Mendes met with the federation’s president, Fernando Soares Gomes da Silva, to discuss Mourinho’s current plans.
Roma hold his attention for now but he hopes the club will not stand in the way of his desire to manage the national side by June 2023.
Mourinho will speak with Roma’s owners to find a solution, with the Portuguese thought to be likely to ask to be released from his contract with the club a year early to take charge of Portugal.