Official: Luxembourg, new coach of Corinthians

Corinthians announced this Monday to the former Brazilian coach and former coach of Real Madrid Vanderlei Luxembourg as the new coach of the first team, following the resignation of Alexi Stival ‘Cuca’ shortly after sitting down due to an old case of sexual abuse.

Luxemburgo, 70, signed a contract with the São Paulo team until “December 31, 2023”, that is, until the end of this season, according to the club in a note.

The veteran Brazilian coach is scheduled to make his debut this Tuesday at the Neo Química Arena in Sao Paulo, in the match against Ecuadorian Independiente del Valle, for the third day of group E of Libertadores Cup. This is the third time Luxemburgo has handled the albinegro box.

The first time he took charge of the Corinthians was in 1998, the year in which he won the Brazilian Championship. He returned in 2001 to lift the Campeonato Paulista, the most important regional tournament in the state of Sao Paulo.

In total, he led the ‘People’s Team’ in 134 games, with a balance of 62 wins, 33 draws and 39 losses, according to the calculations of Corinthians.

Luxembourg will be replaced cuckoowho was forced to resign after intense pressure from local fans over an old sexual abuse case he faced during his time as a Gremio player.

At the end of the 1980s, he and three of his companions were imprisoned for a month in the Switzerland accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

After paying bail, they were temporarily released and returned to Brazil. cuckoo, who has always denied his involvement, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, although he did not serve his sentence, which has since expired. But the pressure is enormous and cuckoo he was forced to resign after only one week on the job.

The Corinthians had a chaotic and very irregular start to the season that claimed as its first victim, at the end of April, the young coach, Fernando Lázaro, fired after a bad game and the cautious team results