25 days after his dismissal, Sampaoli has a new destination

flamencothe most famous club in Brazil and current champion of the Copa Libertadores, announced the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli as his new coach in the Portuguese area Victor Pereirawhich was dismissed on Tuesday after the withdrawal of the Rio de Janeiro team from three important competitions.

“Flamengo announces that it has signed an agreement with coach Jorge Sampaoli to lead the professional soccer team until December 31, 2024,” said a short note released by the current Copa do Brasil champion on his social networks.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

Sampaoliwhich in Brazil has already commanded clubs such as saints (2019) and Atlético Mineiro (2020), is expected in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, once he resolves pending issues due to the termination of his contract with Seville .

Sampaoli his career began in 2011 as a coach of University of Chilewhere he won the Copa Sudamericana.

Copa América champion with Chile

In 2012, he became the leader of the Chilean team and won the first Copa América in the country’s history in 2015. His first time in European football was in 2016, also with Sevillewho quickly left to take over as selector of Argentina.

His good result in saints and miniro in Brazil they allowed him to return to Europe, first as coach of Olympic Marseille and later as coach of Sevillewith whom he worked for only six months and was fired due to the threat of relegation from the Seville team.

This comes after the failed return of Jorge Jesus

The Argentine was the choice chosen by the leaders of flamenco after failed negotiations to return the Portuguese Jorge Jesusone of the most successful coaches in the history of the Brazilian team and with whom the team won the Libertadores, Liga and Copa do Brasil between 2019 and 2020.

the impoverished Victor Pereira Arrived at flamenco last December after the controversial dismissal of Dorival Junioran experienced Brazilian coach who recovered the potential of a team full of stars and last year led them to win the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Libertadores.

But the Portuguese failed to convince. He flamenco of Pereira failed in the Club World Cup, where they did not reach the desired final match real Madrid after losing in the semifinals against al hilal saudi

They also lost in the Recopa Sudamericana final match Free Valley Ecuadorian, bit the dust against palmeiras in the Supercopa do Brasil and failed in the Carioca Championship, which means he was beaten 4-1 on Sunday by fluminense.