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Coach Diego Dabove lasted 45 days and six games for the Bahia. With 28% of success, the Argentine coach was dismissed from the team’s command this Wednesday after defeat by 3 a 1 to Corinthians. In his place, the board arranged for Guto Ferreira’s return.
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Bahia confirmed the departure of Dabove and, according to a statement from President Guilherme Bellintani, it was necessary to “correct the course”. The club has not yet announced the arrival of Guto Ferreira, but the give confirmed that the two parties reached an agreement.
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Guto Ferreira will then go on his third trip to Bahia. In 2016, he led the team in the team’s access to Serie A and, in 2017, he won the Copa do Nordeste. The coach then transferred to Internacional in 2018; he returned to Tricolor that same year, but did not repeat his success.
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Diego Dabove in presentation as the new coach of Bahia — Photo: Felipe Oliveira / EC Bahia / Disclosure
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Dabove’s arrival was accompanied by great expectations at Bahia. With the Argentine, the club went back to betting on a foreign coach, something that hasn’t happened since 1979, with Armando Renganeschi.
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The problem is that, on the field, performance and results did not appear. Despite the weeks free for training, the team accumulated poor performances and got into trouble in Serie A. Bahia de Dabove won only one game and is in the relegation zone of the competition.
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In addition, the successive changes in the starting lineup had no effect. Players who were starters in a match ended up losing their status in the next appointment. In an interview, Dabove said that frequent changes made part of your characteristic.
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In an interview with give at the end of September, the football manager of Bahia, Júnior Chávare, praised the work of Dabove.
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– His arrival is fulfilling our expectations. Easy dialogue guy, who is building the team, getting to know the team. Realize that if you have to change from one week to another, it changes. This process is easy. I believe we are within what was expected for the arrival of the professional – he said at the time.
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See the note released by Bahia:
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Esporte Clube Bahia announces that Diego Dabove is no longer the squad’s coach.
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“We need to correct the course. It was not something we would like to do, we are very sorry for the situation, but if we decided to change so quickly, it is proof that the choice turned out to be wrong – not in terms of the quality of the work , but from the point of view of knowledge of Brazilian football and the context of the club. Taking stock of the day-to-day, the results and the challenges that lie ahead, we understand that this is the correct measure at the moment”, explains president Guilherme Bellintani.
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The assistants Guillermo Formica and Walter Ribonetto leave the Tricolor together with him, as well as the physical trainer Agustín Buscaglia.
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