Vasco da Gama, Romario’s team, dropped for the fourth time in Brazil

The Vasco da Gama, one of the most traditional teams in Brazil and a club from which the mythical Romario da Souza Faria, fell this Thursday by fourth time to the second division. The team led by the former Brazilian coach and former Real Madrid coach, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, won 3-2 at Goiás in the São Januário de Río de Janeiro stadium.

The Argentinian Germán Cano and Ricardo Graça, on two occasions, they scored for the locals. Fernandão, also with a double, discounted for the visit. The Admiral, champion of the Libertadores-1998 and four Brazilian leagues, needed a miracle to stay in the first division of soccer in Brazil.

I had to defeat the also descended Goias, that Fortaleza fell to Fluminense (lost 2-0) and finish with a better goal difference than the Ceará (was -20 vs. -8 before the start of the last date).

The downgrade was the result of a season terrible for Vasco, who barely won ten of the 38 Brasileirao games and was in the position 17, with 41 points. The Basques had four coaches in the season: Luxembourg, the Portuguese Ricardo Sá Pinto, Ramon Menezes and Abel Braga.

The 14 goals of Cano and the overflows of the youth Sizes Magno were their only sparks of illusion in 2020, in which they fell in the round of 16 of the South American Cup with the Argentine Defense and Justice, who won the tournament.

Vasco will play Serie B for the fourth time, after relegation in 2008, 2013 and 2015. In 2017 he had returned to A. In addition to El Almirante, Goiás, Coritiba and Botafogo lost the category.

Ascended Chapecoense, América-MG, Juventude y Cuiabá, that will play for the first time in the first division.

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