Fluminensechampion of the Copa Libertadores last year, but now in last place in the Brazilian league, announced this Monday as new coach Luiz ‘Mano’ Menezes, who led the Brazilian national team between 2010 and 2012.
“With a contract until the end of 2024, the coach starts his work this Tuesday,” Fluminense reported on its social networks, in a brief message in which it confirmed him as a substitute for Fernando Diniz, who was dismissed last week after two years at the club.
Menezes, 62, has been a coach since 1997 and has since then worked for around twenty clubs, including several of the most important in Brazilian football, such as Corinthians, Gremio, Flamengo, Cruzeiro and Palmeiras, among many others.
His most important work was at the head of the Brazilian national team, which he managed between 2010 and 2012, a period in which he was responsible for the first call-ups of some figures, such as Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso, the latter now at Fluminense.
Now you will be tasked with a team in a critical situation, in the last position of the Brazilian Championship and with only six points in thirteen games.
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Menezes will take over the vacancy opened by Diniz’s dismissal, who was responsible for the team that won the two most important titles in the club’s history, as ‘Flu’ himself stated when he announced his dismissal.
It’s about the Libertadores Cup last year and, last February, the South American Recopa, in which Fluminense defeated the Ecuadorian Liga Deportiva Universitaria (LDU).
