29 March 2011
Luanda — The managing board of the Interclube club on Monday terminated the contract with the football club’s coach, the Portuguese Álvaro Magalhães, being this the first dismissal case of the first division championship, which is only in its second round.
The coach, who won last championship’s title with Interclube, signed in November 2009 a two-year contract.
He is now going to be temporarily replaced by his assistant coach, the Angolan João Arsénio “Túbia”, who on Monday already led the team in a training session.
The new coach, who is a former skipper of Interclube, will have his first test on Saturday, in Luanda, against El Merreikh of Sudan, a second-leg match qualifier for the group stage of the African champions league,.
In the first-leg match Interclube lost 0-2.
Meanwhile the club’s director for football area, Mané Vieira Dias, said that the termination of the contract with the Portuguese coach happened in a friendly way.
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Angola: Interclube Rescind Contract With Portuguese Coach