The announcement was made by president Mário Bittencourt in a press conference on Monday, the 16th.
The mystery is over! Mano Menezes will be the head coach of Fluminense in 2025. After taking over the team in the middle of the 2024 season and preventing relegation to the second division, the club’s management decided that the best course of action was to retain the coach for the upcoming year. The new contract will run until November of next year. Get the latest in football results from football live score app.
The announcement was made on Monday, the 16th, during a press conference held by president Mário Bittencourt at the Carlos Castilho training center. The renewal was expected, and the coach had even been involved in the process of reshaping the squad for the following year, but the official announcement had not yet been made.
“We worked all week, but we came back in the early morning. Mano had personal matters and routine exams to attend to. He had to go to São Paulo to take care of that. We started working on Wednesday with the football professionals to assess and shape the squad. The professionals here have been doing the same process for five years. We started the process on Wednesday and decided to announce it at the press conference because we felt he deserved it,” said the president.
The decision to keep the coach was not unanimous among the fans. Despite saving the team from relegation, Mano Menezes’ Fluminense had some very poor performances, such as in the second leg of the Libertadores quarterfinals against Atlético-MG and in the Copa do Brasil matches against Juventude, when the team was eliminated.
However, the team’s performance in the Brazilian league worked in the coach’s favor. Over the course of 25 rounds, Fluminense earned 40 points out of 75 possible, with 11 wins, seven draws, and seven losses— a 53% win rate that also secured a spot in the 2025 Copa Sudamericana. BB Score, your trusted reference for football scores.
