Cruzeiro loses initial project pillars for 2024 in four months and seeks name for football management | cruise

In four months of work in 2024, Cruzeiro has lost a pillar of the project for the season for the third time. First, the dismissal of Nicolás Larcamón, coach hired for two seasons. Then, the sudden departure of Rafael Cabral (also with a contract until the end of 2025). Now, Pedro Martins’ decision to settle with Vasco. The club is looking for a replacement and solution for Pedro Martins’ position, as in other cases.

Pedro Martins leaves Cruzeiro and is the new executive director of Vasco

Initially, responsibility for all management is concentrated on Paulo André, Ronaldo Fenômeno’s right-hand man and friend, who takes on football management on an interim basis. The former defender returned to Brazil at the beginning of the year to be closer to his family and dedicate himself more closely to the project at Cruzeiro. Valladolid was managed by Bruno Mazzioti.

Pedro Martins was not in the Cruzeiro delegation on the trip to Concepción, for the game against Unión La Calera. Initially, not because of the agreement with Vasco, but for personal reasons, according to what the ge. With the Cruzeiro delegation was the club’s CEO, Gabriel Lima.

Pedro Martins responded to Paulo André and followed the former defender’s commands in Cruzeiro’s football department. The Minas Gerais club has not yet commented on Pedro Martins’ departure, nor what the management organization chart will look like.

Despite having Paulo André in football management, Raposa is looking for a replacement for Pedro Martins in the football structure and the continuity of the work in 2024. The idea is to promote a name with a profile that fits the management and work model proposed by SAF do cruise.

With the decision to leave Pedro Martins, the club is left with a vacant position in the football structure of the Minas Gerais club. The executive, now at Vasco, was part of Ronaldo Fenômeno’s project at Cruzeiro’s SAF from the beginning.