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Athletic Mineiro, who in 2020 won the titles of the Brazilian Championship and the Copa do Brasil, announced this Thursday the hiring of the Argentine Antonio Mohamed , with extensive experience in Mexican soccer, as his new coach to replace Alexi Stival “Cuca”.
El Turco, as Antonio Ricardo Mohamed Matijevich is popularly known, “ arrives to command the Brazilian champion and the Copa do Brasil until December 2022“, announced the Belo Horizonte team in a message posted on their social networks.
The Brazilian team highlighted that Mohamed has a victorious career as a coach in both Argentina and Mexico and who has titles on his resume such as the Copa Sud American, the Mexican Championship and the Mexican Cup.
He also recalled that he also had experience as a coach in European soccer and that he was the coach of the Celta de Vigo Spanish.
The strategist of 51 years old born in Buenos Aires began his career as a technician in 2003, when he assumed command of the Mexican Zacatepec. In Mexican soccer, where he was chosen as the best coach in the seasons of 2015 and 2015, also commanded the Morelia, Querétaro, Jaguares, Veracruz, Tijuana, América and Monterrey clubs. .
In Argentina he was the coach of Colón, Independiente and Huracán, a club with which he established himself as a player and which he dreams of presiding over one day. Despite his long experience, Mohamed had been inactive for a year, when he terminated his contract with Monterrey, a club he commanded in a first phase between 2015 and 2018 and then enter 2019 Y 2020.
With Monterrey he won three titles and qualified the team for the Club World Cup in 2019. The Mineiro still has no forecast of when the Argentine will assume command, but is expected before 17 from January, when the team will start its preseason and preparation to play the 20 in February the final of the Supercopa do Brasil, his first decision.
The Argentine will have the Difficult mission to replace Cuca, who resigned for personal reasons after leading Mineiro in the best season in its history. Before hiring Mohamed, Atlético negotiated with the Portuguese Jorge Jesús, Carlos Carvalhal and Luis Castro, and with the Argentine Eduardo Berizzo.
The Argentine will take on a club full of figures, like the Brazilian international Hulk, the Olympic champion Guilherme Arana , the Argentines Matías Zaracho and Nacho Fernández and Chilean striker Eduardo Vargas .
They were joined this week by the central defender Diego Godín , captain of the Uruguayan national team and who established himself as a player for the Spanish Atlético de Madrid, who signed a contract on Wednesday to reinforce Mineiro until December from 2022.
TRE-MEN-DO 🤪
▶️ Diego Godín 🇺🇾 was CONFIRMED as the new reinforcement of Atlético Mineiro 🇧🇷
▶️ He will be a partner of Nacho Fernández and Zaracho pic.twitter.com/Ly0slfcZYj— TNT Sports Argentina (@TNTSportsAR) January 01, 2022