Al-Nasr Saudi sacks coach Pedro a month after his appointment
Al-Nasr Saudi club announced the dismissal of its Portuguese coach Pedro Emmanuel today, and assigned the Brazilian Marcelo Salazar to replace him temporarily, pending the appointment of a new coach.
Al-Nasr said in a statement posted on his official account on Twitter, "The club's management decided to end the contractual relationship with the coach of the first football team, Pedro Emmanuel, thanking him for the period he spent as coach of the team, and Marcelo Salazar will lead the team technically until the announcement of the new coach. ".
Al-Nasr management contracted with coach Emmanuel to succeed the Brazilian Mano Menezes only about a month ago, and he supervised the team in only 5 matches, two in the AFC Champions League and three matches in the league, during which he achieved only one victory over the Emirati unit, before losing in the semi-finals. Al-Asiatic against Al-Hilal, and then losing to Al-Ittifaq and Al-Shabab in the league, in return for a draw against Al-Fayhaa.
The dismissal of Emmanuel is the ninth in the league, and Al-Nassr is the second team to dismiss coaches in one season.
In the same context, the Al-Nasr administration agreed to the resignation submitted by Hussein Abdel Ghani, Executive Director of Football.
Abdul-Ghani's resignation came against the backdrop of public pressures that demanded his departure, after the team's results had worsened in the past period, expressing its dissatisfaction with the work he presented to the team, especially at the level of psychological preparation, in addition to solving some internal problems.
The previous Al-Nasr administration assigned Abdul-Ghani the task last November 30, and contributed with the team to winning the Super Cup, before submitting his resignation a year later.
In addition, the first team started yesterday its internal camp in the Eastern Province, which will continue until next Monday, during which it will play a friendly match against Al-Ettifaq.
The Al-Asimi team, which occupies the ninth place in the league table with two matches postponed, is missing six members who are currently with the national team, as well as the Cameroonian duo Vincent Abubakar and Uzbekistan's Jalaluddin Masharipov, who are with their countries' teams.
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