Coach promoted at Barra Funda, executive returns as Cotia boss | OneFootball

With the return of coach Allan Barcellos from São Paulo’s under-20 team after a vacation period this Wednesday (4), coach Harry Massis Júnior will kick off the planned changes, mainly for the youth categories of the Morumbi club.

Barcellos will become a permanent member of the professional coaching staff. As a rule, he will work at Barra Funda, assisting in the transition of players from Cotia to the main team, as well as serving as an assistant to Hernán Crespo and participating in technical decisions.

If you read that carefully, you probably found Barcellos’s new role a bit odd. That’s because, in theory, it was already being performed by a relatively well-known figure among fans, Marcos Biasotto, who has been working at Barra Funda since the end of November, in one of the last significant decisions made by former president Julio Casares in the club’s football department.

Well, Biasotto will return to Cotia, where he will resume his position as executive director of the youth academy, a role he has held since the start of the Casares administration in 2021.

Still during the Casares era, when the youth divisions were under the responsibility of Douglas Schwartzman—who was dismissed after being caught on audio illegally negotiating Morumbi’s boxes for concerts—a consensus was reached that a change was necessary. Tricolor agreed on terms with Marcelo Lima, who had already worked at the club between 2009 and 2015, but his move to become Cotia’s executive was suspended when the political crisis erupted.

There is an internal understanding that Biasotto was not Schwartzman’s trusted man, and the two even clashed behind the scenes. Therefore, his reinstatement is not seen as a continuation of the Casares administration. On the contrary, Massis’s allies see him as a capable figure who lost support with the rise of the former director to the department.

Regardless, Biasotto will now have to report to another figure from São Paulo’s social circles. José Roberto Canassa, a lifelong council member who held various roles in Tricolor’s youth categories between 1999 and 2017, will take over as statutory director in Cotia.

Just as Massis wishes to have Luiz Cunha as CEO, Canassa is seen as an apolitical figure. Having worked with various administrations and political factions, he is even appreciated by Casares’s opponents who now serve in the club’s current board.

According to the portal ‘UOL‘, Massis is expected to decide this week on the future of the trio Francesco Moretto, Tião Gouveia, and José Inoccencio, all council members and Schwartzman’s deputies in Cotia. All of them attended meetings in recent days and tried to distance themselves from the accused former director, but the consensus at Morumbi is that their continued presence is unfeasible due to their close ties with the department’s former head.

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