He Besiktas presented this Tuesday as a new coach a coach who became a champion in Europe Portugal at Euro 2016 in France: the veteran Fernando Santoswho signed for one of the three big clubs in Türkiye. saints He declared himself happy to be back coaching a club after 12 years in charge of three European teams. In addition to winning the Euro Cup, under the orders of Santos Portugal won the 2018-19 Nations League.
“In twelve years of working with a national team, I really missed training a team every day,” he admitted. Santos, coach of Greece from 2010 to 2014, from Portugal between 2014 and 2022 and Poland until last September.
“In the national team, you train one day with the players, they play the game, and then they leave. You can’t be with the players every day, observe them. That was difficult for me,” he said. saintsduring the press conference broadcast on the channels of Besiktas.
“I wake up thinking about the next training session, what we will do the next day. Being at a great club like this makes me happy,” added the 69-year-old coach of Portuguese.
Santos, who arrived in Istanbul on Monday evening, signed this afternoon in a ceremony held at the stadium. Besiktas in Istanbul his contract, which according to the Turkish press has a duration of 1.5 years.
The president of Besiktas, Hasan Arat, However, during the press conference he refused to clarify the specific terms and economic conditions of the agreement. As the club announced in a statement, saints will fly this Tuesday to the city of Rize on the Black Sea coast to meet his players in the match against Rizespor.
The Portuguese coach leads the Besiktas at a difficult time for the club, less than three weeks after his predecessor, the Turkish Riza Calimbaylegend of Turkish football in the 1980s and 1990s with the nickname ‘atomic ant’.
Calimbay He has only been in office for six weeks, after replacing the youth Burak Yilmaz, who was only there a month, replaced the veteran Senol Güneswhich lasted a year.
In sum, the Besiktas, He changed coaches five times in the past two years, and went from winning the 2020-2021 Super League to finishing sixth last year, the same position he currently occupies in the Turkish league table.
Santos arrived at Besiktas with his team of five assistants, consisting of Joao Costa, Paulo Ramos Mendes (Paulinho), Justino Fernando, Ricardo Santos, Jorge Rosário.
“My only goal is to win. If I lose, I can’t sleep. We have to fight in the worst situation and we have to convey that spirit to the players,” said the Portuguese coach.
Asked about his decision to leave the bench Cristiano Ronaldoafter the player got angry, in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where Portugal finally lost against Morocco, Santos He underestimated the matter.
“It’s a decision based on tactics and strategy. The team is important. If we win and go on to the World Cup, there won’t be much to talk about,” concluded the team’s new coach. Besiktas
Source: La Verdad
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