First club stop since 2016
Coach Tite is taking over the traditional club Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro with immediate effect. Brazil’s former national coach has a contract with the 1981 World Cup winners until December 2024, the end of the coming season. The club from the metropolis announced this on Monday evening.
The 62-year-old Tite most recently managed Brazil’s national team for six and a half years, but failed in the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup and the 2022 World Cup. In 2019 he won the South American championship Copa América with the “Seleção”. His new club Flamengo started the current season with Jorge Sampaoli (63), who was only signed in April. Due to disappointing results, the former Argentine national coach had to leave at the end of September. In Tite, the seven-time Brazilian champion and three-time winner of the South American club championship Copa Libertadores is now once again relying on a prominent solution.
Flamengo is one of the most popular clubs in Brazil. In August, however, the team was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores. The defending champions lost the final of the Brazilian Cup competition three weeks ago after a return match against FC São Paulo. Immediately afterwards, the club parted ways with Sampaoli. In the league, Flamengo, which was 13th in the table on Sunday under interim coach Mário Jorge, is not better than 1-1. Corinthians São Paulo came out, currently in fifth place.
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