<!--Article Start--> <p style="text-align: justify">Brazilian footballing great turned politician Romario says corruption -- not just poor play -- was to blame for the country's humiliating exit from the World Cup a year ago Wednesday.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"On the field, the diagnosis was obvious -- the panic and inability to react by the players," Romario said of the 7-1 collapse in the semi-final to Germany, who went on to win the tournament in Brazil.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Romario, a star on Brazil's 1994 World Cup winning team and now a senator, said however that the players were not the only culprits.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"Off the field, the problem was far worse: a complex web of corruption involving the CBF (ruling body), federations clubs, agents, marketing businesses and managers," he wrote on his Facebook page.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"Together, they destroyed our football because they had one sole aim -- to get rich."</p> <p style="text-align: justify">A year after the embarrassing exit from a World Cup that Brazil was not only hosting but was under huge pressure to win, the football-mad country's sporting leaders are debating how to rebuild the team.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">The coach, Dunga, has warned that Brazil's road back to "dominance of world football" will be neither easy nor quick.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Romario said the fiasco at the World Cup saddened him, "not because I wanted to be on the pitch, but because I have had a privileged view, already for several years, of Brazilian football's deterioration."</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The latest signs of Brazilian football's multiple problems were elimination by lowly Paraguay last month in the quarter-finals of the Copa America and the arrest of Jose Maria Marin, a former Brazilian soccer boss, in the FIFA corruption scandal.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">On Tuesday, Brazilian international defender Daniel Alves said that Bayern Munich trainer Pep Guardiola, a Spaniard, had offered to coach Brazil at the World Cup.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The job went to Luiz Felipe Scolari, keeping the tradition of Brazilian coaches.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"Pep is the best trainer in the world, the best sporting manager I've known," Alves said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"If you pass up on an opportunity like that, it's because the team doesn't matter to you."</p> <!--Article End-->