He will be earning R1,8-million a month, but it seems the only inflated thing about Carlos Alberto Parreira is his salary - not his head.
By all accounts, despite his impressive credentials and stellar reputation in the footballing world, Bafana Bafana's new coach is a rather modest type.
If anything, Parreira, who was due to arrive in South Africa on Friday to take up his challenging job, is possibly too nice.
South African Football Association chief executive Raymond Hack this week described the 63-year-old coach as a "fantastic person".
"He is very calm, clinical and calculated. He is not facetious. He's not a big deal," said Hack.
For Parreira, coaching a no-name side comprising locally based players and those plying their trade in lesser European leagues will be quite a comedown from his last job as coach of Brazil's superstar squad.
And knowing that mystical powers are not likely to be part of Parreira's coaching make-up, Safa are making realistic demands on their huge investment.
"What we want him to ensure is that we have a first-class side for 2010. We're not looking for miracles today, tomorrow or the next day, but we want to have confidence that when 2010 comes around, we won't be knocked out in the first round.
"If we get through the first round, then who knows? We could make it to the quarterfinals or the semifinals. Anything's possible," said Hack.
Hack said he had asked Parreira why he didn't win the World Cup last year, when he coached the best team in the world, with sensational players like Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaka, Roberto Carlos and Juninho at his disposal.
"I didn't have the best team," Parreira replied, "I had the best players. The difficulty was moulding them into a unit."
Alex Bellos, a journalist for The Guardian, who has covered Brazilian football extensively, said Parreira's problems with Brazil's 2006 World Cup side was that he struggled to impose himself on the team's stars.
"That Brazil team had too many egos, too much arrogance. Parreira had a problem making himself the biggest ego. Brazil's former coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari, was a bully who got the Brazilians to pull together. Parreira was maybe too much of a nice guy to do that," said Bellos.
Still, Parreira is not a coach to be scoffed at, and Bafana's temperamental and under-achieving players will be idiots if they don't respect and value the contribution he could make.
He was, after all, the man who in 1994 guided Brazil to their first World Cup title in 24 years and is one of only two coaches to coach four different teams at the World Cup.
Parreira, who was never a professional footballer, is a conservative coach who believes in tactical and organisational discipline, and a balance between defence and attack.
"Although it might be an advantage to have been a player, I think it is more important to be properly qualified for the job, in touch with what is happening on the pitch and capable of managing people," Parreira said in a recent interview.
Not surprisingly, Brazil's 1994 success was built on the solid, uncompromising displays of tough defensive players like Dunga, Aldair, Branco and Mauro Silva, with little sign of the usual Brazilian flair, although Romario and Bebeto were upfront to score the goals.
"Parreira has a lot of experience. He is revered and he is a World Cup winner. He is not a particularly inspired coach, but he is a safe pair of hands and there is a limit to what a coach can do. He knows Africa, he knows football and he knows all about the World Cup," said Bellos.