Soccer-Dunga to coach Brazil's Olympic team

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Brazil coach Dunga will also take charge of the country's Olympic team at the 2008 Beijing Games.

"Dunga is enthusiastic about this possibility and I'm sure he's the right person to be at the front of the team going to the Olympics," president Ricardo Teixeira told the Brazilian Football Confederation's Web site (www.cbfnews.uol.com.br).

Brazil, who have already qualified for Beijing, have never won the Olympic soccer tournament which they take more seriously than most European teams.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo also led the senior and Olympic teams in 2000. Failure at the Sydney Games cost him both jobs after Brazil lost to nine-man Cameroon in the quarter-finals.

Brazil failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Olympics, a tournament won by arch-rivals Argentina.