Rogério Ceni is the new coach of São Paulo

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Sao Paulo FC on Thursday set the appointment of Rogério Ceni, 43, for the position of coach of the main team. The former goalkeeper and club idol has signed a two-year contract until the end of 2018 and will take over the new role from the start of next season.

“Rogério Ceni has always been a protagonist. In the last 12 months, he showed ambition to qualify for a new role in football, studied with the best in the world, and convinced us by presenting a consistent and contemporary football project for São Paulo. He is a figure of enormous importance for the club that arrives with the determination to be the best again, this time as a coach, “said President Carlos Augusto de Barros e Silva.

“The great secret of football is to manage people and relate well to their players. They can make a difference. I want them to see football the way I saw it when I played, I want a winning team that has a winning mentality. I’m sure they will understand this, I already know many of them and I know the winning mentality they have, “said the new São Paulo coach Rogério Ceni.

From now on Rogério Ceni will discuss the team’s planning for 2017, with the soccer board. The start of the former goalkeeper in the fields will be in the preseason in the Florida Cup in the United States in January.