Abel Braga leaves the Fluminense bench

The experienced coach Abel Braga resigned this Thursday from the technical direction of the Brazilian Fluminense after a series of negative results in recent days.

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“Abel is the most victorious coach in the club’s history and an example for all of us. His generosity and love for Fluminense will never be forgotten,” wrote the Rio de Janeiro club in an official note after Thursday’s meeting in which accepted the coach’s resignation.

the trigger

The goalless draw on Tuesday in the Maracana against the Argentine Union de Santa Fe in the Copa Sudamericana and the defeat also in the mythical stadium last weekend, by 0-1, against Internacional de Porto Alegre precipitated Braga’s departure.

In the South American Championship, Fluminense is third in group H with 4 points, one behind the leader Unión de Santa Fe, while in the Brazilian Championship it occupies 13th place with 4 points, 3 behind the leader Santos after the first three days.

End of his fourth stage in Flu

Braga, 69, took over Fluminense for the fourth time at the start of the 2022 season and led the team in 26 games, with 17 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, in which the team scored 35 goals and conceded 15.

In its new stint in the Flu, the team won the Guanabara Cup and the Carioca Championship, the Rio de Janeiro state regional tournament, after 10 years, which it had won for the last time in 2012, just under the command of Braga.

In 2012, the ‘tricolor carioca’, also managed by the experienced coach, won their last Brazilian League.

mark, interim

Auxiliary Marcao will assume the technical direction of Fluminense on an interim basis until the appointment of the new coach and his first commitment will be on Sunday when he visits Coritiba on the fourth day of the Brazilian Championship.