The negotiations took a few days, but they closed this Fridayafter whate the option of Jorge Jesus fell definitively.
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The thing is the former coach of the carioca team has a link with Benfica until the end of the season and the Brazilian team saw no margin to wait for him until June. For this reason, he finally opted for Sampa, who already has experience in the country leading Santos and Atlético Mineiro.
Flamengo announces that it has signed an agreement with coach Jorge Sampaoli to manage the professional soccer squad until December 31, 2024.
#CRF— Flamengo (@Flamengo_es) April 14, 2023
“The club has signed an agreement with coach Jorge Sampaoli to manage the professional soccer squad until December 31, 2024″, informed the institution of Rio de Janeiro in a brief publication on its social networksafter several local portals anticipated that there was an agreement between the parties.
Flamengo sacked Vitor Pereira on Tuesday. The Portuguese had been eliminated from the Club World Cup against Al-Hilal from Saudi Arabia, had lost the Brazilian Super Cup with Palmeiras and had been thrashed 4-1 by Fluminense, after losing in his Copa Libertadores debut against Aucas. Lethal cocktail for the European who he left faster than expected.
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This Sampaoli’s new experience in Brazilian football It will be accompanied by a particularity because he will be forced to return to Argentina for the first time since he was coach of the Albiceleste team in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. It will be on May 4 when he travels to Avellaneda to clash against Racing for the Copa Libertadores in the framework of the third day of Group A that they also share with Aucas from Venezuela and Ñublense from Chile.
It will be the second experience of the former coach of the Chilean team in Brazil. The first had been in 2019 in Santoswhere he won 22 games, equalized eight times and lost the same number of games until he left because the leadership was not going to be able to comply with the reinforcements he had requested. The second was at Atlético Mineiro where they won the 2020 Mineiro Championshipbut he left in February 2021, after agreeing his arrival at Olympique Marseille in France.
Now, He will have to command a cast full of stars such as Giorgian de Arrascaeta, Filipe Luis, Everton Riberio, Arturo Vidal and Gabigol, among others, but who is in a bad football moment, and whose main objective is to conquer America again, as he did in 2022.
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