Corinthians coach Alexi Stival “Kuka” He resigned at dawn this Thursday, just a week after he took it. accused starring in a sexual assault case in the eighties.
“I’m leaving right now and that wasn’t what I wantedbecause you’ve been waiting your whole life to be here. This is my family’s request and I’ll be home tomorrow“Cook pointed out at a press conference, already at dawn, after the match for the Brazilian Cup against Remo.
The coach said that in his short week at Corinthians he had experienced “very hard days, nightmares” and that he did not “I was expecting an avalanche of things long gone and resurfacing as if they were from today.”
Corinthians, for their part, announced on their Twitter profile that the coach “left the team team following a request from the family to resolve certain issues.”
However, after the victory over Remo (2:0) and the offset in the determination of collections from penalties for the 1/8 finals of the Brazilian Cup, club president Duilio Monteiro told reporters that Cuca was being subjected to a “massacre”.
On Monday, the entire women’s professional team joined the protests against the coach. with a statement in which the players appealed to the “democratic traditions” of Corinthians and the “feminism” that the club is proud of.
A group of supporters of the second most popular club in the country had already protested last Friday at the team’s training center, and some of the bold bars took to social media to voice their opposition to the hiring.
Cook, who first led the Corinthians, He is a 59-year-old coach who has managed twenty First Division teams over the past 25 years.almost no one dusted off the old sexual assault case.
The events took place in Bern during Guild Tour in Switzerland.
Kuku and three other players detained for a month in Switzerland accused of having group sex with a 13-year-old girl in a concentration hotel.
After bail was paid, the players were released on parole and returned to Brazil.
Two years later, Cooke, who had always denied any violence, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of depraved acts with the use of violence, but never served his sentence.
During his speech with the Corinthians, Cooke did not digress, he again denied the facts and, in a sign that no case was brought against him, he indicated that when he played for Spain’s Valladolid in 1990 “nothing happened” meaning he was not extradited.
After the statement, the Swiss lawyer Willy Egloff, who represented the victim, denied part of Cookie’s version in an interview with the Brazilian portal UOL and Now the coach has announced that he will prosecute the European lawyer for his statements.
“I hired two lawyers to do the job that I couldn’t do (to clear his name). Now it will be done. Who says what should not, and who judges, he can be judgedthe coach said.
With Cooka on the bench, Corinthians lost 3-1 to Goiás at the start of the Brazilian league and then beat Remo 2-0 in the Copa Brasil, but due to a 2-0 loss in Belém de Para ) the match is over. determined by penalties.
Source: La Opinion
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