Jorge Sampaoli arrives at Flamengo to change his image and with the need to defend the Libertadores title

it hasn’t been a month George Sampaoli jobless. This Friday, flamenco He confirmed the Argentine as the new coach who managed Sevilla in Spain until March 21st.

Through a brief statement published on its official Twitter account, the Rio de Janeiro club reported that it had signed an agreement “to manage the professional soccer team until 31 December 2024“.

The Santa Fe man has been in the sights of the Brazilian management since Tuesday, when they sacked Portuguese Vítor Pereira after losing the final of the Rio de Janeiro state tournament with Fluminense, in the latest setback of a start to weak season.

The present and the team’s performance Mengão so far in 2023 it was not at all what was expected: was eliminated in the semifinals of the Club World Cup against Ramón Díaz’s Al Hilal, lost the South American Cup Winners’ Cup against Independiente del Valle, the Brazilian Super Cup against Palmeiras and the recent defeat against Fluminense. Also, his Copa Libertadores debut came in a 2-1 defeat in Ecuador against Aucas.

Even the news from Sampaoli is not the best: he was driven out of Sevilleclub to which he had arrived last October to replace Julen Lopetegui and face his second cycle until 2024. However, less than a semester later and with the Andalusian team fighting in the relegation places of the Spanish championship, his disassociation.

In the 19 matches played in the domestic tournament led by Sampaoli, Sevilla have won just six, drawn five and lost eight. And, despite having classified him in the quarterfinals of the Europa League, his farewell had been a fact for some time.

“Sevilla is the first team of my career in which I get a second chance. And I can certify that, despite the circumstances being different, my love for this Scudetto is not broken and continues to be enormous,” wrote who led the Argentina national team to the 2018 World Cup in his farewell letter.

Flamengo will be his third excursion into Brazilian footballafter managing Santos, between 2018 and 2019, and Atlético Mineiro, between 2020 and 2021, and the twelfth club of his career, in which he crossed Peruvian, Chilean, Ecuadorian, French and Spanish football, as well as leading the Chilean teams -in which he won the 2015 Copa América- and Argentina.