Dubai: Al Wasl coach Jorginho has not made a request to cancel his contract despite reports linking him with a return to the Brazil national team set-up, according to an official at the club.

Jorginho’s 1994 World Cup-winning teammate Dunga is set to be reinstated as coach of the Brazil national team on Tuesday, replacing Luiz Felipe Scolari, who oversaw the team’s 7-1 semi-final defeat to eventual champions Germany at this month’s 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil.

Dunga is likely to recall Jorginho as his assistant after the pair worked successfully alongside each other in Dunga’s first spell in charge of the Selecao from 2006 to 2010, where they won the 2007 Copa America and the 2009 Fifa Confederations Cup.

However, Al Wasl chief executive officer Ashraf Ahmad Mohammad said Jorginho has yet to notify the club of his intention to leave.

“We need to sit with him, I don’t know if this is the case,” Mohammad told Gulf News.

“He is already tied up with a contract and if he breaks that there will be a penalty clause. If necessary, there will have to be a compromise but so far nothing has happened.”

Jorginho’s departure would come as a shock for Al Wasl. The 49-year-old former Bayern Munich defender only joined the Cheetahs on a one-year deal in April and is yet to oversee a competitive fixture.

If Jorginho were to leave Al Wasl, it would mimic Argentinian coach Alejandro Sabella’s departure from Al Jazira in 2011. Sabella signed a one-year deal with the Abu Dhabi club in June that year before cancelling his contract to manage Argentina two months later. Sabella led Argentina to the final of the 2014 World Cup, where they lost 1-0 to Germany.

Jorginho is Al Wasl’s sixth coach since Argentina legend Diego Maradona was sacked in July 2012. Under fellow Argentinian Hector Cuper, the Cheetahs finished 12th in the 14-team Arabian Gulf League last season, ten points clear of relegation.

Jorginho had promised to reverse the club’s fortunes at his unveiling in April.

“I’ve been watching recent matches of Al Wasl and I think that the players should be performing a lot better,” he said. “I hope to have sufficient time to iron out these mistakes and I hope that, with the right chemistry between myself and the club’s management, we can get the club back on the right track.”