Ronaldo doesn’t hang around with little girls. Even before taking over as the new owner of the Cruzeiro, the Phenomenon He has taken out the scissors and the whip: he has not only announced a budget cut for 2022 but has also decided to dismiss the current coach, and with a current contract, Vanderlei Luxembourg.
The funny thing about the story is that Ronaldo had been led by ‘Luxa’ in two short periods of his career: in the Seleçao and in Real Madrid, where the Rio coach accumulated two of the biggest and most significant failures on his resume.
Luxembourg, which had recently renewed until December 2023, has been “surprised” by the sudden dismissal. Ronaldo has not come forward, who has done so is the Cruzeiro through a brief statement in which he states that “To adjust the accounts to the budgetary reality of the club, the board received instructions not to renew with the current coaching staff, at the same time new dismissals are being made in the football department.”
With Luxembourg they leave the club, the technical assistant, Maurício Copertino, the physical trainer Antonio Mello, and the technical director Ricardo Rocha, former Real Madrid central and that coincided with Ronaldo in the Seleçao.
In the next few days, the Celeste, which for the third consecutive season will play the Serie B of the Brasileirao, will announce who will be the new coach, a professional of absolute confidence from Ronaldo and the new administration.
Ronaldo’s revolution in the Cruzeiro it is absolute: the club becomes a Soccer Stock Company; It establishes a new reorganization plan to face one of the biggest debts in Brazilian football, and is already carrying out a thorough cleaning of the sports structure, which affects the offices, the bench and the squad.
