The Spanish Miguel Angel Ramirez will play his first final as coach of the International, this time in front of Guild, his fiercest rival, in pursuit of the Gaucho Championship.
The Gremio qualified this Sunday for the great decision of the soccer tournament that brings together the best teams in the state of Rio Grande do Sul after defeating Caxias 2-0 in the second leg of the semifinals.
Midfielder Matheus Henrique and winger Ferreira tipped the balance in favor of Porto Alegre's Tricolor, who started with the advantage of having won the first leg 1-2.
Coach Tiago Nunes remains undefeated since he came to the Gremio bench at the end of April.
This year's will be the fourth final of the Gaúcho Championship in a row for Gremio, champion of the last three editions after beating Brasil de Pelotas (2018), Internacional (2019) and Caxias (2020).
Internacional certified their move to the final on Saturday with a resounding 4-1 victory over Juventude, which neutralized the 1-0 they conceded in the first leg.
At the Beira-Rio stadium, midfielder Edenílson, winger Rodinei, forward Yuri Alberto and midfielder Maurício scored for the Colorados.
The final between Inter and Gremio, the most mediated derby in Porto Alegre and known in Brazil as 'grenal', will be two-legged and will be played on the 16th and 23rd of this month.
It will be the first for the Spanish Miguel Ángel Ramírez at the helm of Inter's bench, who took office in March of this year, after his successful visit to Ecuador, where he won the Copa Sudamericana in 2019 with Independiente del Valle and became the first European coach. to win that tournament.
Ramírez began to train as a coach in the lower categories of the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas and Deportivo Alavés, both in Spain, and later traveled to Qatar, where he spent six years.
In that country he completed his training at the Aspire Academy, where former players Raúl González, from Real Madrid, and Xavi Hernández, from Barcelona also passed, to later make the leap to Ecuador.