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Sporting de Braga announced the dismissal of Daniel Sousa on Sunday night. The 39-year-old coach lasted just four official matches for the Minho club, led by António Salvador.

The club also announced that the assistants Francisco Matos, Maxi Pereira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Abel Pimenta, Carlos Gomes and Miguel Bastos have left the club, with immediate effect.

«SC Braga announces that Daniel Sousa is no longer the coach of the main team, with immediate effect. Along with him, the assistants Francisco Matos, Maxi Pereira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Abel Pimenta, Carlos Gomes and Miguel Bastos will also leave the Club. SC Braga would like to thank Daniel Sousa and his technical team for their dedication and commitment to the Club in recent months. The name of the new SC Braga coach will be made official in due course”, the club announced.

This happens shortly after a home draw against him against Estrela da Amadora, 1-1and from a against Servettein the third qualifying round for access to the Europa League. Against Israeli Maccabi Petah Tikva, they had won 5-0 and 2-0, in the second round of qualifications.

“We should have controlled the game more, been more relaxed with the ball. Without naivety, there are other factors that we cannot control, a set of issues», admitted Daniel Sousa after the draw with the Reboleira team. Already against Servette, he showed dissatisfaction with team performance.

Remember that Daniel Sousa was named at the Minho club before the end of the last season, in April, to replace Artur Jorge, the coach who left for Botafogo. He stood out at Arouca last season, after experiences at Gil Vicente and as assistant to André Villas-Boas.

He is the second coach of the league teams to leave, at the end of the first round. Tozé Marreco “knocked the door” de Gil Vicente even before his League debut.

Carvalhal is a hypothesis

At the same time, from what Maisfutebol learned from a source close to the process, the training of Sp. Braga this Monday has moved to the evening and will now be under the new coach, with Carlos Carvalhal as one of the names on the board.

According to what could be determined, the management of Braga felt that there was no qualitative evolution from game to game, from the beginning of the pre-season and both the results and the final performances ended up giving forward the decision.

Sp. Braga denies problems between Daniel Sousa and Salvador

Early this morning, an official source from Sp. Braga denied that there was a “disagreement” between the coach Daniel Sousa and the president of Sp.

«SC Braga officially denies that the departure of the coach Daniel Sousa is the result of any disagreement between him and the president António Salvador», says an official source from Sp.

Article updated at 00:13