Fluminenselast year’s Copa Libertadores champion, but now in last place in the Brazilian league, was announced Monday as the new coach Luiz ‘Mano’ Menezes, who coached the Brazilian national team between 2010 and 2012.
“With a contract until the end of 2024, the coach begins his work this Tuesday,” reported Fluminense on their social networks, in a short message in which they confirmed him as a replacement for Fernando Diniz, who was dismissed last week after two years at the club.
Menezes, 62, has been a coach since 1997 and has since played for nearly twenty clubs, including some of the most important in Brazilian football, such as Corinthians, Gremio, Flamengo, Cruzeiro and Palmeiras, among many others.
His most relevant job is the head of the Brazilian team, which he coached between 2010 and 2012, a period in which he was responsible for the first calls of several numbers, such as Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso, the latter is now at Fluminense.
A team will now manage a critical situation, in the last position of Brazilian Championship and has only six points in thirteen games.
Menezes will assume the vacancy created by the dismissal of Diniz, who was responsible for the team winning the two most important titles in the club’s history, as ‘Flu’ himself said when he announced his dismissal.
This is about Libertadores Cup last year and, in February, the South American Cup Winners’ Cup, where Fluminense defeated the Ecuadorian Liga Deportiva Universitaria (LDU).
Source: La Verdad
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