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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brazil coach Dunga has made a perfect start to his second stint in charge of the national side and Tuesday s friendly win over Japan offered him plenty of reasons to feel that July s World Cup nightmare could soon be forgotten.

As hosts, Felipe Scolari s side bullied their way through to the semi-finals before a 7-1 humiliation to Germany cost the coach his job and left many observers believing the rebuilding job would be a long and painful process.

Dunga, who led the side from 2006-10, was handed the task of restoring respectability for the five-times World Cup winners and his spotless record in four matches since taking over and the form of mercurial forward Neymar suggests Brazil are already on an upward trajectory.

Neymar was brilliant in Singapore on Tuesday, wowing a pro-Brazil crowd of 51,577 as he revelled in a free-roaming role to score all four goals in a 4-0 thrashing for a dominant Brazil side that exuded confidence from the kickoff.

I tinkered with the lineup today as I wanted to see how we played without a striker in the second half, Dunga told reporters, having already beaten arch-rivals Argentina 2-0 in a Beijing friendly on Saturday.

I did this because Neymar picked up a cold after the match in China and I thought it would be better to give him freedom and let him concentrate only on scoring goals, Dunga added.

All the formations seem to suit this team as I like to try different things. Even at the end when we had no strikers, it worked well.

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Dunga added that not too much should be made of the victory over an inexperienced Japan side also going through a rebuilding process but was full of praise for his talismanic striker, who took his international tally to 40 goals in 58 matches.

We have told him he still has a lot of areas where he can improve, the 50-year-old coach added.

Now that he is captain he has more responsibility and status in the Brazil team. He has responded well to this yet still looks like he is playing with his friends. We still want to see him play even better.

Dunga admitted he was delighted with his side s attitude on the short Asian tour and felt that following the 1-0 friendly wins over Colombia and Ecuador last month, his squad was showing a strong desire and hunger to revive Brazil s fortunes.

The way we played these two matches shows that the team is in the right frame of mind, he said.

We beat a competitive and world class Argentina side and a Japan team that did not have jet-lag like we did. I thought we were very professional in both matches with players out to prove they already want to be considered for the next World Cup.

(Editing by Toby Davis)

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-GULFPORT -- Kindergarten is not mandatory in Mississippi, but State Superintendent Carey Wright would love to see that changed.
+ SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brazil coach Dunga has made a perfect start to his second stint in charge of the national side and Tuesday s friendly win over Japan offered him plenty of reasons to feel that July s World Cup nightmare could soon be forgotten.
-With less than a month until her one-year anniversary in the Magnolia State, Wright sat down with the Sun Herald and touched on a number of topics. What she really wanted to talk about, however, was the need for early education.
-"It's just frightening to think about how our children are coming in," she said.
+ As hosts, Felipe Scolari s side bullied their way through to the semi-finals before a 7-1 humiliation to Germany cost the coach his job and left many observers believing the rebuilding job would be a long and painful process.
-The Mississippi Department of Education is in the process of applying for a pre-kindergarten development grant from the federal government worth up to $15 million for four years. The grant could expand existing pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds by about 3,100 spots.
-With the number of Mississippi children living in poverty on the rise, Wright said it's imperative to open up public pre-K for families who cannot afford private pre-K facilities.
+ Dunga, who led the side from 2006-10, was handed the task of restoring respectability for the five-times World Cup winners and his spotless record in four matches since taking over and the form of mercurial forward Neymar suggests Brazil are already on an upward trajectory.
-This past year was the first where the state had a state-wide kindergarten readiness assessment. More than 44,000 students took the test and Wright said the results, which will soon be released to the public, are close to alarming.
-"If there is evidence as compelling as it could possibly be for the need for early childhood programming, it's the results of this kinder
+ Neymar was brilliant in Singapore on Tuesday, wowing a pro-Brazil crowd of 51,577 as he revelled in a free-roaming role to score all four goals in a 4-0 thrashing for a dominant Brazil side that exuded confidence from the kickoff.
-garten assessment," Wright said.
-The superintendent told of one instance where a district called her office asking for help because it had a child who didn't know any shapes, colors or letters. The child, she said, knew none of the basic building blocks.
+ I tinkered with the lineup today as I wanted to see how we played without a striker in the second half, Dunga told reporters, having already beaten arch-rivals Argentina 2-0 in a Beijing friendly on Saturday.
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-Asked if there's pockets of resistance in the Legislature to early childhood education that's not related to finances, Wright said she was surprised to find some people believe it's governmental intrusion into a family matter.
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+ We have told him he still has a lot of areas where he can improve, the 50-year-old coach added.
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