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Scolari resigns as Brazil's coach

Luiz Felipe Scolari resigned as Brazil's head coach after the team's failure to win the World Cup, the Brazilian Football Confederation said Monday.

Luiz Felipe Scolari resigned as Brazil's head coach after the team's failure to win the World Cup, the Brazilian Football Confederation said Monday.

Scolari promised to win the tournament at home, but Brazil was eliminated in the semifinals after a disastrous 7-1 loss to Germany in the national team's worst defeat in its 100-year history.

Brazil also fell, 3-0, to the Netherlands in the third-place match.

Scolari's contract ended after the World Cup and he handed over the command of the team after Saturday's match, saying that it would be up to the confederation to decide whether he would remain at the helm of the five-time world champions.

Ratings

With an estimated 26.5 million viewers, Sunday's World Cup final stands as the most-watched soccer game in U.S. history.

The Nielsen company said 17.3 million people watched Germany beat Argentina, 1-0, on ABC. An additional 9.2 million tuned in to the game on the Spanish-language Univision network.

That tops the 24.7 million who watched the U.S.-Portugal match earlier in the tournament, and the same number of people who saw the 2010 World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain.

Germany celebrates

The Die Welt newspaper celebrated with a three-word headline in the national colors of black, red and gold that read simply: "It is true."

Der Spiegel magazine's website listed Germany's titles: "1954. 1974. 1990. 2014!"

German astronaut Alexander Gerst congratulated the team from the International Space Station on its "top performance."

About a quarter of a million fans celebrated into the night at the packed "fan mile" in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, while car drivers blasted their horns into the early hours of the morning.