The official announcement! Portugal's mediocre coach is re-employed, coaches 14 champions, and Cristiano Ronaldo pits Lewandowski and does not retire
On January 9, Beijing time, according to the official announcement of the Turkish Super League team Besiktas, Fernando Santos officially became the coach of the team;
Besiktas is the traditional powerhouse of the Turkish league, having won the league 14 times and the Turkish Cup 9 times, but this season, Besiktas's results have been sluggish, and they are only in 8th place in the standings for more than half of the season, 16 minutes behind Fenerbahce at the top of the table. To this end, Besiktas has made three changes of manager this season, with Güneš, Yilmaz and Charingbay sacking successively, and after contacting former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to no avail, Besiktas officially confirmed Santos as the team's new manager.
Santos won the league title, two Portuguese Cups and two Portuguese Super Cups, and briefly coached AEK Athens, Thessaloniki and Panathinaikos in Greece, winning the Greek Cup with AEK Athens and leading AEK Athens and Thessaloniki to the Champions League. At senior level, Santos was clearly even better, having led Greece to the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 and later led Portugal to Euro 2016 and Nations League 2019.
In the later period of coaching Portugal, Santos's too stubborn shortcomings were gradually exposed, and after the early return of the 2018 World Cup knockout round and the 2021 European Championship knockout round, Santos scribbled out again in the Qatar World Cup under the support of Portugal's new golden generation and Cristiano Ronaldo. At the same time, abandoning Ronaldo in the knockout round and using the too young Ramos also became the fuse for his dismissal, and in the end not only became the backdrop for Morocco to make history, but also ended up with a thankless result that was disliked by all parties. It is worth mentioning that Santos also said in the interview that even if there was another choice, he still chose to use Ramos.
After leaving the Portuguese national team, Santos immediately took office in the Polish national team, although Poland's strength is not as strong as Portugal, but it can be regarded as a second-rate team in Europe, and it is not a big problem to participate in the European Championship preliminaries and qualify for the main round. However, when the opponent's strength was average and there was no major difficulty, Santos led the team to overturn in a row, even Lewandowski was difficult to recover, and finally after 8 months of coaching, he was disgraced by the voices of all parties. has also officially been reduced from a champion coach to a mediocre coach who has been fired in a row within 1 year.
Originally, fans thought that the 69-year-old Santos had also reached retirement age and should consider the moment to quit, but at the invitation of Besiktas, the old coach resolutely chose to take over. It's just that Santos is tactically backward, pedantic and incompetent, and lacks the ability to control the locker room, even if there are still players such as Rebic, Aboubakar, Inle, and Toson in the Besiktas team, the outside world still does not think that he can lead the team to complete the counterattack.