Antonio “Turco” Mohamed’s experience in Brazil lasted just over six months. Hired in January of this year with the mission of making one of the most expensive teams in the country show good football and win titles, he was fired by Atlético Mineiro this Friday (22), the day after the 1-1 draw with Cuiabá. , away from home, for the Brazilian Championship.
“We are not working as a team. There are several aspects of the game that we need to improve”, he verified after the result in Mato Grosso.
The Argentine with successful stints in Mexico learned what the country’s professionals have known for a long time. In few countries there is as little patience with coaches as in Brazil.
The CIES Football Observatory, a study group that works within the International Center for Sport Studies in Switzerland, produced a report with data from 126 leagues around the world to find out where there is more and less time for the coach to work.
With information collected up to March 1st of this year, the study placed the Série A do Brasileiro in 118th place, with an average working time of 120 days for each coach. Serie B ranked 120th (104 days).
The most “patient” league with managers is Northern Ireland’s elite, averaging 1,066 days.
In his six months in Belo Horizonte, Mohamed won the Campeonato Mineiro and the Supercopa do Brasil. His use was 69% of the points played, with 27 wins in 45 games.
These are not bad numbers, but Atlético are trying to keep the national title (it is in third, four points behind leader Palmeiras), was eliminated by Flamengo playing poorly in the Copa do Brasil and faces the Palestra Italia club in the quarterfinals of Libertadores. This, the most important competition of all.
“Brazilian football is very emotional. That’s why you send so many coaches away. It’s because it’s with emotion”, analyzed Abel Ferreira already in 2021, when he noticed the coming and going of names in the country’s clubs.
And Ferreira is the most successful among all the coaches abroad. He won two Libertadores, a Copa do Brasil, a Paulista and a Recopa Sudamericana.
The most quoted to replace Mohamed, at the moment, is Renato Gaúcho. This serves to reinforce the view that when they have experiences considered bad with foreigners, clubs bet on national names.
When Serie A started on April 9, nine teams had coaches born abroad: Atlético-MG, Palmeiras, Corinthians, Internacional, Santos, Coritiba, Fortaleza, Botafogo and Flamengo.
Flamengo exchanged the Portuguese Paulo Sousa for Dorival Júnor. Internacional fired Cacique Medina and hired Mano Menezes. Santos replaced Fabián Bustos with Lisca.
“Each time I change a coach, it’s a sign of an error in planning,” confessed Santos president Andreas Rueda.
Since taking office in early 2021, the team has averaged a change of command every four months.
“For me, it would be a normal fact [técnicos estrangeiros no Brasil] provided that Brazilians also had opportunities in the countries of origin of these coaches, which doesn’t happen When they say that we don’t have a job market abroad, it’s that we can’t enter European countries”, complained Dorival Júnior, in an interview with Lance !
In addition to the issue of validation in Europe of certificates issued by the CBF, the European market usually looks for Argentine names when looking at South American professionals. The last Brazilian to be successful on the Old Continent was Carlos Alberto Silva (1939-2017), two-time Portuguese champion with Porto (1992-1993).
The country has not had a manager in a major European league since Vanderlei Luxemburgo was sacked by Real Madrid in 2005.
Clubs that started the Brazilian with foreign coaches
Atletico Mineiro
Team had the Argentine Antonio Mohamed as coach. He was fired this Friday (22).
International
Uruguayan Alexandre “Cacique” Medina was dismissed from the club a month after the start of the Brazilian and replaced by Mano Menezes
Flamengo
Without ever being able to win the trust of the fans or the players, the Portuguese Paulo Sousa fell in June. In his place, entered Dorival Júnior.
saints
With a limited squad in his hands, Argentine Fabián Bustos couldn’t make the team play well and ended up being fired earlier this month. Santos had Marcelo Fernandes as an interim and hired Lisca.
palm trees
The Portuguese Abel Ferreira has led the team since the end of 2020 and has already won two Libertadores, a Copa do Brasil, a Paulista and a Recopa Sudamericana.
Corinthians
After firing Sylvinho, Corinthians imported the Portuguese Vitor Pereira at the end of February. Team fights in the top positions of the Brazilian, is in the quarterfinals of Libertadores and Copa do Brasil.
Strength
Signed in June 2021, Argentine Juan Pablo Vojvoda took Fortaleza to the round of 16 of Libertadores, won two state championships and a Copa do Nordeste.
Botafogo
The Portuguese Luis Castro arrived in March of this year to be the first coach of Botafogo’s SAF project.
coritiba
The Paraguayan Gustavo Morínigo took over Coritiba in January 2021. In addition to replacing the team in the country’s elite, he won this year’s Paranaense.
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