Third boss this year: Dorival Júnior bids to lift São Paulo | OneFootball

São Paulo have already returned to training after the defeat to Fluminense, but it is only this Monday (18) that new coach Dorival Júnior will begin his work in charge of the Morumbi club for the third time in his career.

In Rio de Janeiro, when the team was beaten 2-1 this Saturday (16), caretaker coach Milton Cruz was once again in charge of the Tricolor, just as he had been in training sessions while the team was without a manager following Roger Machado’s dismissal.

Dorival was announced on Friday (15), and this Monday afternoon, at 2 p.m. (Brasília time), he will be officially introduced as São Paulo’s coach in a press conference to be held at the Barra Funda training center.

Only after speaking to the press will Júnior officially begin his new spell at the club, with a training session scheduled for the afternoon. And it will be the coach’s only session before the Copa Sudamericana clash on Tuesday (19) against Millonarios at Morumbi.

For the match, Dorival Jr. will assess whether he will receive any reinforcements from the team’s injured players, who make up a lengthy list. In this Sunday’s training session (17), Marcos Antônio made good progress in his recovery and could be a welcome boost in the coming days. After Hernán Crespo and Roger Machado, Tricolor are trying with their third coach of the season to find the path back to good performances.

HE WANTS ARBOLEDA

One player who could return to action for São Paulo at the coach’s request is Arboleda. As AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR reported last Friday (15), during the negotiations for his return the new coach already spoke with the board about the Arboleda case and admitted that he wants to recover the center-back and talk to him personally. Dorival sees him as an essential part of the squad and was not pleased with the possibility of giving him up so easily.

And on Saturday night (16), after São Paulo’s 2-1 defeat to Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, journalist Alexandre Salvador, during a live broadcast on the Arnaldo e Tironi channel, confirmed AMT’s report, stating that the Ecuadorian defender will indeed be reintegrated into the group in the coming days.

According to the report, Arboleda is expected to spend around another ten days training until he regains his ideal physical condition, since he spent a month without training while ‘away’ in Ecuador.

Depending on the defender’s progress, he could return in the clash against Boston River on the 26th in the Copa Sudamericana, but the most likely scenario is that he returns against Remo in the Brasileirão, in the last match before the break for the World Cup, on May 30 in Belém (PA).

Dorival Jr.’s meeting with Arboleda already at the start of this week will be decisive in whether or not the player is reintegrated, with the coach eager for that to happen. The constant injuries to center-backs, along with poor performances from some players in the position, have strengthened the coach’s intention to bring the Ecuadorian back.

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