Hours after, in a classic for the Carioca Championship, Botafogo announced a change in charge of the main team. Claudio Caçapa returns to the club as a permanent assistant while the club is still looking for an effective coach.
Botafogo has been without a coach since January, when, from Qatar, and has terminated the bond. John Texor, owner of SAF Alvinegra, centralizes the search for the substitute and interviewed a series of professionals, but did not even agree with a name that pleases.
During this period, the main team is being led by Carlos Leiria, who was under-23 technician in 2024. In addition to bad results, Leiria’s choices in the games have been questioned.
Claudio Caçapa is the new permanent technical assistant of Botafogo. With a recognized recent passage at Glorioso, Caçapa will have the first mission of the team’s interim technical command until the arrival of the new coach. In 2023, Claudio obtained significant results running the team in four important wins: Vasco, Grêmio and Red Bull Bragantino for the Brazilian Championship, and against the employer for the South American Cup. Welcome back and success in the most traditional, Caçapa
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In 2023, Luís Castro surprised the then leader of the Brazilian Championship to Al Nassr, Saudi Arabia. At the time, Textor announced Claudio Caçapa as an interim coach while looking for a new coach.
The former player, with stints at Cruzeiro, Atlético-MG, Newcastle-Ag and Lyon-Fu, was a assistant coach of the French club, which also belongs to John Texor, and was on vacation in Brazil. Before Bruno Lage took over the team, Botafogo won the four games they played with Caçapa in the technical area.
Subsequently, Caçapa had experience as the main coach of Belgium’s Moenbeek, another club that is part of John Texor’s Eagle Holding Football.
Between July 2023 and February 2024, there were 28 games, with seven wins, seven draws and 14 losses at the Belgian club. Since then, Caçapa has been free in the market.
