A historic Brazilian soccer team must play the Serie B of that country during this 2021. Botafogo, a club that has two Brazilians in its showcases, sealed its relegation after losing this Friday to Sport Recife, leaving it with no mathematical options to save itself.
The Rio de Janeiro team fell by the minimum count against those led by Jair Ribeiro and remained in the last position with only 24 points in 34 games played. The only goal of the game was the work of Brazilian Iago Maidana at 24 ‘via penalty kick.
With this result, the ‘Fogao’ was left mathematically without alternatives to escape the descent, because Vasco da Gama, who occupies the 16th position, is 13 points away, becoming unattainable in the four remaining matches in this tournament, where he could only add 12 units in case of winning all the matches.
This will be the third stage that the club will have to live in the Serie B of Brazil, after having descended in 2002 and 2014. In this new category, he will also accompany Cruzeiro, another historic Brazilian soccer team.
Link with Chile
After his brilliant passage through Spanish Union and University of Chile, Gustavo Canales joined the Brazilian team in 2016. The Chilean nationalized striker had a brief stint with the team, where he only managed to play 11 games, leaving a single goal in his memory.
The one who had more prominence in Botafogo was Leonardo Valencia. The current player of Colo Colo signed for the historic club after an outstanding season in Palestinian. With the ‘Fogao’, the one formed in the ‘U’ played 92 games in three years, in which he scored six goals and gave 12 assists.
An old acquaintance who was also in the black and white group was Walter Montillo, who arrived there in 2017 after passing through the Shandong Luneng of the Chinese First Division. The ‘Squirrel’ only played 17 games, lived with injuries, retired and at the same time returned to Tigre de Argentina.