small trainer He asked for the resignation of the Boavista technical commanda source linked to the process told the Lusa agency this Monday, after the Panthers had supported eight games without winning and five consecutive defeats in the I Football League.
The contractual termination has not yet been formalized, but the management chaired by Vítor Murta will have accepted the request of the former player, who will complete his second stage in office.
On Sunday, after the defeat suffered at Estrela da Amadora (3-1), on matchday 13, which marked the Porto team’s fifth consecutive defeat in the championship, for the first time since 1959/60, Petit stressed that he would evaluate his continuity at the club.
“I am responsible. Now I have three hours to travel to Porto to think about my future and the future of Boavista,” he said at the press conference after the challenge.
Petit, 47 years old, leaves Boavista in tenth place, with 15 points, five above the relegation zoneat a time when the injured party He came to lead the I League in the second, fourth and fifth rounds, before falling to intermediate positions of the table.
With four victories, three draws and six losses accumulated in 13 duels, the Bessa club has not triumphed in the competition since the defeat against the then red bottom team Desportivo de Chaves (4-1), on September 18, in the fifth day. having also been eliminated in the fourth round of the Portuguese Cup and in the first phase of the League Cup.
Petit had returned to Boavista in November 2021 to replace João Pedro Sousa and remains the third coach with the most games (191) of the club in which he made his debut as a footballer and changed the field of play for the benches, behind Jaime Pacheco (359), which had guided him to the unprecedented title of national champion, in 2000/01, and Manuel José (211).
In addition to improving the performance of the ‘ladies’ in the I League in the last two seasons, by going from 12th place (38 points) to ninth (44), they obtained an unprecedented participation in the ‘final four’ of 2021. /22 edition of the League Cup and increased the value of the assets of a club frequently affected by unpaid salaries and impediments to the registration of new players.
Petit was linked until June 2024but he completes his eighth experience as a coach, after having initially went through Bessa (2012 to 2015), Tondela (between 2015 and 2017), Moreirense (2017 and 2018), Paços de Ferreira (2017 and 2018), Maritime (2018/19) and BSAD (2019 to 2021).
As a midfielder he stood out for Boavista, Benfica and German club Colón, and represented the Portuguese national team in the final stages of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and in the 2004 and 2008 European Championships, scoring four goals in 57 international matches.
Source: TSF
