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Following the news that Odair Hellmann had accepted an offer from Arab football to leave the FluminenseOn Monday (7), the Rio de Janeiro club confirmed the departure of the coach and his assistant Maurício Dulac to Al Wasl, from the United Arab Emirates.
In an official note, Tricolor das Laranjeiras also confirmed that Marcão, U23 coach and permanent assistant coach of the professional team, will assume technical command of the team until the end of the season.
The commander’s decision to accept the offer was first revealed on the website. Globoesporte.com and confirmed by ESPN.com.br, who also found that the monthly amount that the coach will receive, if closed, will be around R $ 600 thousand, almost three times the amount paid by the Rio team.
Valued since the good season with the International In 2019, it has received surveys from abroad ever since. At the beginning of the year, the ‘Arab world’ tried to get Odair out of Fluminense, but the coach took a step back and preferred to continue in Brazil.
The club and the coach even started talks to renew the bond that would last until December. The team’s intention was to keep the professional until the end of 2021, but the coach himself asked to postpone the talks.
In total, there are 50 games under the command of Fluminense, with 24 wins, 12 draws and 14 losses: a 56% advantage.
Fluminense has a good campaign in Football and ranks fifth in the table. In other competitions, he was runner-up in Rio, left the Sul-Americana in the 1st phase and fell in the fourth phase of Brazil Cup.
Read Odair Hellmann’s farewell note below
“With the same respect and attention that you have given me in the last 12 months, I leave here to officially announce my farewell to Fluminense Fútbol Club.
Faced with the formalization of an irrefutable proposal from Al Wasl SC (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), I contacted the FFC board, with whom I always had the best dialogue, who responded positively to the invitation to assume the technical command of the team Arab. In a personal decision, I decided to undertake a new challenge and a new career and life project.
After 50 matches completed in the middle of an absolutely atypical season in world football, I leave Fluminense with the feeling of gratitude and the feeling of having fulfilled my duty. Thanks for finding me with the doors open, twenty years after my time as an athlete, for returning as a coach. I have to do it for having given my best every day, with a lot of dedication and work. In the figures of president Mário Bittencourt and director Paulo Angioni, I express my most sincere and profound gratitude to the club for the structure and conditions offered, as well as the effort to try to stay. I would also like to thank all the technical staff, athletes, colleagues, employees and collaborators of the FFC. For all the support, coexistence and affection in this year together, thank you very much.
Finally, my heartfelt thanks to the Fluminense fans who gave a vote of confidence to my work from the beginning and which will be marked in the history of my life. I am proud to be part of this giant club and of a fantastic history. Like all of you, I will always be a tricolor at heart! “
Greetings tricolor,
Odair Hellmann
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 7, 2020.
