The Colorado has a new coach, after the dismissal of Roger Machado.
After initially negotiated with Luis Zubeldía and see the agreement on Internacional changed its focus and signed another Argentinian: Ramón Díaz, until December 2026. The information comes from journalist André Hernan, from ESPN Brasil.
At 66, he – who shared management with his son Emiliano – goes to his third club in Brazilian football after managing Vasco (2023/2024) and Corinthians (2024/2025).
Ramón Díaz will work again with D’Alessandro, the current sports director of Colorado. He managed the then midfielder from Ale to the river and later in San Lorenzo.
He was offered to intervene at the end of Roger Machado’s mandate, but the council decided to bet on a turnaround under the command of the old one now Colorado coach.
The last work of father and son was in Paraguayan Olimpia. But it only lasted seven games between July and August this year.
Ramón Díaz becomes the eighth coach of the Administration of President Alessandro Barcellos who began in 2021.
Abel Braga, Diego Aguirre, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, Cacique Medina, Eduardo Coudet, Mano Menezes and the aforementioned Roger were the others.
He will make his debut Colorado Next Saturday (27), in a duel against Juventitude in Jaconi for the 25th round of the Brazilian championship.
Colorado is, with 27 points in 23 games, in 13th place.
The opening of the Z-4 is Vitória, which has 22 games out of 24.
History in Brazilian football
The first experience in the country would be in Botafogo, in 2020. But Ramón Díaz did not even take over, because he had to be absent to undergo surgery one day after being announced.
Emiliano Díaz managed the Glorioso for three games (with three defeats) until the board of directors decides not to continue the agreement.
He went through al-Nassr and Al-Hilal Before being Vasco’s bet in July 2023.
He kept Cruz-Maltino in the Brasileirão elite, stayed for the following season, but ended up leaving at the start of the BR-2024 in April.
He was hired by Corinthians in July. And he secured Timão In the preliminary stadiums of libertadores after a wave in the final phase of Brasileirão.
2025 began with frustration against Barcelona, resulting in a drop in the third preliminary phase of Liberta.
The sequence had the conquest of Paulistão on a Palmeiras rival, representing the end of a drought and preventing the rival from taking the tetra.
Ramón and his son were dismissed a month later after a bad start at the Brasileirão.
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