Botafogo has achieved good results in this 2022 Campeonato Carioca, but it has been difficult for fans to focus on the team’s games. This is because the tendency is for a lot to change within the team. When? This is the question that moves the most expectations, with businessman John Textor very close to signing the definitive contract to acquire 90% of SAF Botafogo.
The team continues to enter the field, of course, and the clearest highlights so far have been the saves by Gatito Fernández (back in the starting lineup after missing part of 2020 and all of 2021 while recovering from injury), in addition to the assists from right-back Daniel Borges and goals from Erison, a strong forward, and Matheus Nascimento, the great jewel from Botafogo who, little by little, is showing evolution in professional football.
The team, however, remains without a coach after the surprising dismissal of Enderson Moreira – by decision of Textor, who is looking for a professional with a different profile. Luís Castro, Portuguese from Al-Duhail, is one of the targets.
Still not knowing who will be the new coach for 2022 and waiting for some impact hiring, which can raise the level of the team thinking about the Brasileirão (mainly) and the Copa do Brasil, the Botafogo fans are more anxious about the events off the field of the than with what happens between the four lines at the beginning of the Carioca Championship.
After decades of seeing the club being mistreated, hope returned to appear as a beacon of light for the alvinegros. John Textor’s words make the most down-to-earth fans at least relieved with the promise that in 2022 Botafogo will not enter the Brasileirão just thinking about not falling to Série B. the club will still need reinforcements for the starting lineup… as well as a new coach.
Textor has already been making important and bold decisions, whether in the marketing folders and advertising agreements or in the dismissal of Enderson Moreira – and the consequent search for a new coach.
2022 started differently for Botafogo fans exactly because of the arrival of the investor, but the club’s football season promises to start, effectively, when the American signs the contract for the purchase of 90% of SAF alvinegra.
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