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Botafogo is on fire. The fuel line has different origins, creating a sporting and administrative chaos. At the same time that the future of the S / A project is put in check, another change of coach. Bruno Lazaroni did not resist after six games, the most recent being the defeat against Cuiabá, 1-0, in the round of 16 of the Brazilian Cup.
Less than a month before the presidential election, the backstage boiling is amplified through the internet, with a long outburst from youtuber and businessman Felipe Neto, who is a fan of Alvinegro, already sponsored the club and was about to inject R $ 3 million in S / LOS.
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Felipe sees the club on the way to “the inevitable bankruptcy and no one else sees a way out.” Carlos Eduardo Montenegro, a member of the football board of directors, considered the youtuber’s speech as “a stab in the back.”
– I don’t agree with him. Botafogo is ruined. Every Botafogo recipe is pawned. If it weren’t for the crowd, the committee, the personal help of some people, I’d be officially bankrupt by now. We are trying to get Botafogo out of bankruptcy. Talk as if Botafogo is doing well and we are leading (the club) to bankruptcy – Montenegro said.
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Felipe Neto’s discontent is produced as a result of the defeat of Cuiabá and the removal of a relevant figure in one of the arms of the S / A project, Laércio Paiva. He was one of the chief models of the main collection. The goal was to raise around R $ 250 million with “illustrious” residents of Botafoguenses, pay debts and invest in soccer.
Felipe Neto says that Laércio “started the project from scratch”, while the members of the board reflect on group work. Regardless of who the father was, the truth is that the strategy was not successful. Even so, Felipe Neto went public to, in his words, “shake the tree”.
The youtuber values that “Laércio’s departure is the end of the project” and publicly asks the manager to return to the initiative. In addition to participating in the structuring of the plan, Laércio was responsible for addressing many people in Botafogo who were considered potential investors. Felipe Neto was one of them.
In social networks, the youtuber pointed out a change in the project to stop investing R $ 3 million in the club. His initial version realized that the use of money would have changed: from paying debts to investing in football. But Felipe himself corrected himself after contact with Laércio.
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“Yes, there was a change in the project, but because of Covid, it dropped the numbers,” he said, referring to the fundraising goals.
According to the directive, Felipe Neto’s R $ 3 million were part of a cake of R $ 180 million. A group of Botafoguenses brought, as a starting point, R $ 126 million and held a majority position. According to Montenegro, this bloc, of which the Moreira Salles brothers were part, wanted funding to be less extensive. So much so that the presentation of the project did not have an English version.
Despite the failure of the initial financing model, also attributed to the pandemic, Botafogo refuses to throw in the towel in relation to S / A. “Cardinals” like Montenegro have already said that now the step is to try to invest abroad. The search for new income accompanies negotiations with creditors to reduce debts.
Montenegro ensures that, in addition to Laércio, the others involved in model 1 of the collection are together in model 2. This is headed by Gustavo Magalhães, a figure brought by the vice president general, Carlos Eduardo Pereira.
– Project 1 started with R $ 126 million and raised R $ 54 million. Project 2 starts from scratch. Laércio never believed in Gustavo’s project. When one cools and the other heats up – said Montenegro.
If everything goes wrong, judicial recovery is on the distant horizon, but there is no unanimous position on the viability of the request, since Botafogo is not a company, but a non-profit association.
Future in the field
In the six games he was in charge of the team, Bruno Lazaroni won two, drew two and lost two. Even with little time at work, the board lost patience with the team’s lack of repertoire, especially in the last two games, against Goiás and Cuiabá.
– The lack of courage is what makes me desperate, the bad alignment. There was nothing different – criticized Carlos Augusto Montenegro, a member of the football steering committee.
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The president also ruled out the possibility of hiring technicians with high salaries, even if they are unemployed.
– People don’t understand that the club is ruined. They keep asking technician. Luxembourg, Abel, Dorival, Messi and I don’t understand anything – Montenegro completed.
The need for a reaction is immediate, especially since the second leg against Cuiabá is on Tuesday, at Arena Pantanal. Botafogo need to win by at least two goals difference to qualify without going through penalties.
“I’m devastated that we played poorly and lost, but we have to lift our heads and move on.” The game there will be on neutral ground, we have to take steps to return it with interest next week. There is more than R $ 3 million at stake for a bankrupt club – Montenegro completed.
