El Turco Mohamed was fired in Brazil. (AFP)
the adventure of The Turk Antonio Mohamed from Brazil it stopped abruptly. The Atletico Mineiroreigning champion of Brasileirao, on Friday sacked the Argentine coach, pressed for several dates by sectors of fans due to the unattractive game of the team and some negative results in local tournaments.
“El Turco and his collaborators were fired this morning by the president Serge Coelho and the football director, Rodrigo Caetano“, wrote the Belo Horizonte team on their Twitter account, from where they wished Argentina success in his career.
Mohammed, 52 years old, took over the reins of Gallic in January with a great challenge: surpass or equal what they did last year, when the albinegros starred in the best season of their history.
Then, under the command of the Brazilian coach Alexi Stival cuckoothey won the championship for the first time in half a century, the Copa do Brasil and the state tournament of Minas Gerais (Campeonato Mineiro).
Although the Mineiro has one of the most powerful payrolls in Americathe Argentine coach suffered to make him shine and suffered setbacks that the fans and the club did not like very much, such as the elimination last week in the round of 16 of the national cup against Flamengo.
He also suffered to eliminate Ecuador’s Emelec in the second round of the Copa Libertadores, and drew 1-1 in his visit to Cuiabáwho flirts with the relegation zone, allowing Palmeiras to extend their lead as the leader of Brasileirao.
El Turco had a short stint in Brazil. (AFP)
Despite the criticism of him, in the seven months he was in office he had a 70% return, with 27 wins, 13 draws and just five defeats in 45 direct games. And he won the Brazilian Super Cup against “Fla” in February and the Mineiro championship in April.
Mohamed leaves Galo in third place in the league, with 32 points in 18 games, four points behind Palmeiras and with the same score as Corinthians (2nd).
On Sunday, when he receives Timao al Mineirão, the Hulk’s eleven, the Chilean Eduardo Vargas and The Argentines Matías Zaracho and Ignacio Fernández It will be headed by Lucas Gonçalves, assistant to the club’s standing technical committee.
The Mineiro will play the Libertadores quarter-finals in August against the two-time champion Palmeiras, who eliminated them in the semifinals of the last edition of the main club tournament in America.
Source: Clarin
