Portuguese Jorge Jesus has reached an agreement with the Saudi Football Federation to lead his team for three seasons after negotiations failed for the coach to return to Brazilian Flamengo.
Jorge Jesus, whose contract with Fenerbahçe expires on June 30, there will be an agreement with the Saudi federation until 2026 with a view to the next World Cupwhich is scheduled to be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada, according to the sports newspaper Arriyadiyah, one of the sports benchmarks in the Arab country.
This is not the first time that Jorge Jesus is in Saudi Arabia, because in 2019 he managed Al Hilal club, one of the most important in the Saudi league.
So far, the Saudi Federation has not officially confirmed the deal with Jorge Jesus, who will arrive in the Arab country at a time when the Saudi league is conducting an intense campaign based on multi-million contracts to recruit soccer stars, such as confirmed cases. .by Cristiano Ronaldo or Karim Benzema.
In addition to Flamengo and Fenerbahce, Jorge Jesus directed, among others, during his long career Benfica and Sporting from Portugal.
Renard left the position of the French women’s team
The Portuguese coach, 68 years oldreplaced the French Hervé Renard, who resigned in March from his position as coach of the Saudi national team to lead the French women’s team.
Renard is remembered for leading to the Saudi team in the group stage match of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which they defeated Argentina 2-1, who began the tournament with that loss but later strung together six victories until proclaiming himself champion.
Source: La Verdad
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