The Brazil, one of the most traditional soccer teams in Brazil, descended this Friday to Serie B, in which he will play for the third time in his history, after a bad football campaign hit by an economic crisis.
The mythical Garrincha club signed its presence in the Brazilian second division for next season by losing 1-0 to Sport Recife in Rio de Janeiro, with a goal from Iago Maidana, from a penalty.
The setback, number 18 in 34 games, consolidated him in the last position of the table, with 24 points, and forces him to return to B, where he played in 2003 and 2015.
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Home of Brazilian legends like Jairzinho, Nilton Santos o Garrincha, Botafogo faces a complicated financial situation that was exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The team did not achieve balance throughout Brasileirao-2020, which began last August, five months later than planned, due to the outbreak of the virus in Brazil.
The cariocas had four coaches throughout the championship: Paulo Autuori, Bruno Lazaroni, the Argentine Ramón Díaz and Eduardo Barroca, who directed them this Friday.
In their eleven they had men with international weight, such as the Ivorian attacker Salomon Kalou, the Paraguayan Júnior “Gatito” Fernández and Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda, who left the team at the end of December after disappointing performances.
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In Serie B, Botafogo, winner of the Brasileirao in 1968 and 1995, will meet another historic one: Cruzeiro, who fell for the first time in 2019 and this season was close to falling to C.
In the absence of four dates for the end of the Brasileirao, six eleven fights to avoid the three remaining spaces of reduction: Vasco da Gama, Bahia, Sport, Fortaleza, Goiás and Coritiba.
Chapecoense, América-MG, Juventude y Cuiabá ascendieron.