Breaking: Independente from Caxias head to CT to protest Rui Costa | OneFootball

The bus carrying the Independente caravan, São Paulo’s main organized supporters’ group, arrived on the afternoon of this Thursday (14) from Caxias do Sul (RS), where the club was shamefully 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 organized supporters’ group held a demonstration. At that exact moment, the Tricolor squad was training ahead of 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 calling for 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 signing of Dorival Júnior as the replacement for the fired Roger Machado.

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

It is the second protest by supporters at the entrance of the training center. 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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