Sporting Lisbon sack Amorim's successor after just weeks in charge
Sporting Lisbon's Portuguese coach Ruben Amorim (C) and players acknowledge supporets at the end of the Portuguese League football match between SC Braga and Sporting CP at the Municipal stadium of Braga on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Miguel RIOPA / AFP)
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Sporting Lisbon sacked coach Joao Pereira just over a month
after he replaced Ruben Amorim at the helm, with Rui Borges appointed boss on
Thursday.
Pereira was named coach when Amorim left for English giants
Manchester United, but has paid the price for Sporting's sudden loss of form.
The capital club, who had a 100-percent record in the
Primeira Liga this season before he took over, lost top spot in the Portuguese
top flight to Benfica following a 0-0 draw with Gil Vicente last weekend.
Pereira lost his first four Premier League and Champions
League matches in charge.
The 43-year-old Borges was coach of sixth-placed Vitoria Guimaraes,
whom he also led to a second-placed finish in the league phase of the UEFA
Conference League.
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