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Ricardo Sá Pinto is no longer the coach of Vasco da Gama, announced the Globoesporte website and confirmed the newspaper The ball.
The Portuguese coach knew his future early today, just over two months after arriving in Brazil, after the defeat against Athletico Paranaense, 3-0, at the Arena da Baixada. The officialization should take place in the next few hours.
Sá Pinto would guide the training this morning, but the session was postponed, overnight, for the afternoon.
To what the newspaper The ball He found out that Sá Pinto had also complied with the demands of the management when making the place available, because he did not feel supported even with the trust of the same and, as such, without conditions to achieve the proposed objectives, which they would continue to ensure permanence. in Serie A in Brazil.
Ricardo Sá Pinto found a club with financial difficulties and players with months of overdue salaries – the technical team itself will not have received any salary since it arrived in Rio de Janeiro – and an unbalanced squad weakened by the pandemic and by several injuries to nuclear players . Benítez, considered almost unanimously the best footballer in the squad, was also leaving and the club itself was living and continues to experience a convulsed situation, with disputed elections, in a process that lasted for weeks, and a new direction that pressures those who still it remains. in functions.
Vasco is in the relegation zone, in 17th place, with 28 points, and Zé Ricardo -who already trained the club in the 2017/2018 season, and who coached Fortaleza and Internacional in 2019- is the name that points to the succession of Sá. Chick.
