The technician of Corinthians, Alexi Stival ‘Cuca’, He resigned from his post early Thursday, almost a week after he was assumed, accused of leading a sexual abuse case in the eighties. “I am leaving at this moment and it was not what I wanted, because you wait a lifetime to be here. It is a request from my family and tomorrow I will be home,” Cuca said at a press conference, already at dawn , after the match for the Brazil Cup against Remo.
The coach said that in his short week of work at Corinthians he went through “very heavy, nightmarish days” and that he did not “expect the collapse of things that happened in the past and reappear as if from today.”
Corinthians, for its part, announced on its Twitter profile that the coach “left the command of the team after a request from the family to resolve specific issues.” However, after the victory against Remo (2-0) and the classification in the meaning by penalties from the penalty spot for the round of 16 of the Brazil Cup, the president of the club, Duilio Monteiro, said to reporters that Cuca was “butchered.”
On Monday, the entire squad of the women’s professional team joined the protests against the coach, with a statement in which the players appealed to Corinthians’ “democratic tradition” and the “feminism” the club prides itself on.
A group of fans of the second most popular club in the country already protested on Friday at the team’s training center and some of the brave bar took to social networks to show their disagreement with the acquisition.
Cuca, who directed Corinthians for the first time, is a 59-year-old coach who has directed twenty first division teams in the past 25 years, without almost anyone removing the old sexual harassment case. abuse.
The events took place in Bern on a tour of the Guild
The events took place in Berne during a Guild tour of Switzerland. Cuca and three other players were jailed for a month in Switzerland accused of gang sex with a 13-year-old girl at the concentration hotel.
After paying bail, the footballers were released on probation and returned to Brazil. Two years later, Cuca, who has always denied that the abuses took place, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on a charge of indecent assault with the use of violence, but he did not serve his sentence.
In his presentation to the Corinthians, Cuca did not shy away from the topic, he again denied the facts and, as proof that there is no case pending against him, he pointed out that when he played for the Spanish Valladolid in 1990 “nothing happened”, meaning not extradited.
After the statement, the Swiss lawyer Willi Egloff, who represents the victim, denied part of Cuca’s version in an interview with the Brazilian portal UOL and now the coach has announced that he will prosecute the European jurist for his statements. “I hired two lawyers to do the job I couldn’t do (clear his name). Now it will be done. Whoever says things that shouldn’t be and whoever judges can also be judged,” said the coach. .
With Cuca on the bench, Corinthians lost 3-1 against Goiás at the start of the Brazilian league and then beat Remo 2-0 in the Brazilian Cup, but due to the defeat at Belém de Pará (2-0), the match has decided on the penalties
Source: La Verdad
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