The 49-year-old coach met with the club’s administration and asked for the departure. Without reinforcements in the January window, Cristiano Bacci will have alleged lack of conditions to compete. Boavista is the last classified of the League, with 12 points.
Boavista is negotiating the termination by mutual agreement with Cristiano Bacci, after accepting on Friday the resignation of the Italian coach, who made the place available in the Red Lantern of the I Football League.
Sources linked to the process have confirmed to Lusa that the technician’s detachment is advanced and only lacks bureaucratic issues, and should be made official in the next few hours by SAD ‘axadrense’, led by former Senegalian Futalist Farry Faye.
Disappointed by the absence of reinforcements in Boavista, Bacci will no longer direct Saturday’s morning training, in the contiguous complex to Bessa Stadium, in Porto, nor will be on the visit of Boavista to Estoril Praia, for the 21st match on Sunday, At 15:30, at the António Coimbra da Mota Stadium, in Estoril, under the arbitration of Hélder Carvalho of the Évora Association.
Prevented by FIFA from enrolling new players for five consecutive transfer windows, due to debts, the ‘panthers’ could not hire in the winter market, which was active between January 1 and Monday to national clubs, and lost one of the Holders of the first half of the season, when selling left -back Nigerian Bruno Onyemaechi to the Greeks of Olympiacos for 2.5 million euros (ME).
Understanding the conditions that Boavista could not be met in equal circumstances, Cristiano Bacci has made his place available in recent days and has not required financial compensation with SAD for an immediate departure.
Hired in June 2024 as Jorge Simão’s successor, the Italian was linked until June and will leave Boavista at the end of two wins, six draws and 13 losses in 21 meetings, at a time when the team is 18th and last classified From the I Liga, with 12 points, six below the direct permanence zone and five of the play-off access vacancy.
Before arriving at Bessa, 49 -year -old Cristiano Bacci had been the last coach for the last time between 2015 and 2016, when he passed the look at the II League, before a seven -seasons ride as the Assistant of the Greeks of Paok Salonica ( 2017-2019 and 2021-2023), of the Saudis of Al Hilal (2019-2021) or the Italians of Udinese (2023/24).
According to the latest update on the list of clubs subject to FIFA registration prohibitions, Boavista faces three active processes – well below the maximum of 39 reached at the end of last year – of which one ways for three registration periods and two are unlimited, being dated April 2023 to December 2024.
With a Special Revitalization Process (PER) request accepted by the Vila Nova de Gaia Commerce Court for almost three months, the ‘panthers’ have hope to unlock these impediments soon, so that they can reinforce themselves with players without contract until the end of February.
