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Vasco fired Portuguese coach Ricardo Sá Pinto and did not wait until the turn of the year to announce his “new”: Vanderlei Luxembourg. The appointments to talk about the coach who takes over the club well summarize the reason for hiring the veteran. As he knows the house and the squad well, the coach is seen as a “safety ball” in the campaign to escape the relegation zone at Brasileirão.
The wrong bet in Portuguese by Alexandre Campello’s management, supported by vice-footballer José Luís Moreira, made Cruz-Maltino stop sailing his caravel through unknown seas. The club decided to act more conservatively and, before Luxa, it looked for Zé Ricardo, another coach with a recent step in São Januário. The young coach’s refusal made “plan B” quickly implement.
Recovered from the covid-19, which made him hospitalize after leaving Palmeiras, Vanderlei has the affection of the fans after doing a 2019 very similar to what the club needs in the current edition of Brasileirão. If there was much more time last season, the last 12 games of the competition are considered enough for Vasco, who is in 17th place with 28 points, to undo the fourth relegation.
To reach the magic number of 45 points, which is not always necessary, it would take five wins and two draws, nothing that, today, seems impossible for the next president, Jorge Salgado, who takes office on January 20. The name of Luxemburg started from his fans and team, with whom Alexandre Campello had some disagreements due to the way in which the coach left the club at the end of 2019.
With the problems overcome and the edges trimmed, the Maltese crosses hope that in another “project”, Vanderlei Luxembourg can embrace the spirit of the team that “got out of trouble” last season. For that, they opted for a slightly more conservative style than that of the Portuguese Sá Pinto and a lot of knowledge of the costumes, which approved the choice of the name to command the boat until the end of the Brazilian Championship – without receiving salaries, only with a bonus in case of avoid falling.
