Urgent: Independente convoy from Caxias heads for CT to protest Rui Costa | OneFootball

The bus carrying the Independente caravan, São Paulo’s main organized supporters group, arrived on Thursday afternoon (14) from Caxias do Sul (RS), where the club was embarrassingly eliminated by Juventude in the fifth round of the Copa do Brasil, and went straight to the entrance of the Barra Funda training center.

Around 50 members of the supporters group held a protest. At that exact moment, the squad was training for Saturday’s (16) match against Fluminense at the Maracanã in the Brazilian Championship. Riot Police vehicles are already at the scene.

Independente’s main target is executive Rui Costa. The group is demanding his dismissal and an overhaul of the football department.

Despite the chants insulting him, the executive is not at the scene. Costa remained in Porto Alegre (RS) alongside manager Rafinha to negotiate the hiring of Dorival Júnior as the replacement for the dismissed Roger Machado.

The group’s main leader, Henrique Gomes, known as Baby, has been posting harsh outbursts on his social media since the hours following the match. According to him, the peace pact reached weeks earlier, when the supporters group visited the training center, was broken by the Copa do Brasil elimination. See some of his posts below.

It is the second protest by fans at the training center entrance. On Sunday (10), members of “Brabos,” a supporters collective, went to the site to protest against the team because of the defeat to Corinthians in the Brasileirão derby.

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