Nautico sacked coach Dado Cavalcanti | Nautical
2 min readCoach Dado Cavalcanti’s third visit to Nautical. The coach could not resist a 3-0 defeat against Aparecidense, in Aparecida de Goiânia, for the third round of Série C, and ended up being dismissed on Monday morning.
Football executive Ney Pandolfo and his assistant Pedro Gama were also fired. Under-20 coach Ottavio Augusto will lead the team until a new coach arrives.
This was Dado Cavalcanti’s longest stay at Náutico. In all, in the 39 matches, there were 17 wins, six draws and 16 defeats, with a success rate of 48.7%. In the first, in 2014, the coach led the team in 23 matches, and in the second, in 2017, in only seven.
Dado Cavalcanti took over at Náutico in the final phase of Série B last year, and the team was at the bottom of the competition with relegation still to come. However, even without being able to stay, his work was so well evaluated, that his contract was renewed for the current season.
In 2023, the coach has a record of 15 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses (the loss was against Fortaleza, in the Copa do Norest, under assistant coach Pedro Gama). 60.7% utilization.
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The team was eliminated in the third stage of the Copa do Brasil (for Cruzeiro) and in the quarter-finals of the Copa do Nordest (for ABC), Campeonato Pernambucano (for Saljiro), a result that knocked Natico out of Cuba. Is Brazil 2024 that started dissatisfaction with the coach.
A poor start in the third division, with two wins and two defeats in the first three rounds, was decisive in Dadu’s downfall.
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