Australia have approached world cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari about leading them to the 2018 tournament in Russia.

The former Brazil and Portugal head coach who recently ended a two-and-a-half year stint with a club side in china made  the  revelation  yesterday.

He says the Socceroos had spoken with his agent about him replacing Ange Postecoglou, who resigned in November.

Australia qualified for Russia after beating Honduras in an intercontinental playoff and have been drawn in group c against France, Peru and Denmark.

Postecoglou quit the socceroos a week after securing Australia’s spot.

Scolari led Brazil to world cup glory in 2002, but suffered the ignominy of a 7-1 home defeat by Germany in the 2014 tournament — their first home loss since 1975.