Cuca lasted a week; record is coach fired after 10 minutes

It lasted very little, one week and two games (a defeat and a victory), the permanence of Alexi StivalO Cucaaged 59, in the position of coach of the Corinthians. Pressured by the repercussions of a case of sexual violence in 1987he left the alvinegro team in the early hours of this Thursday (27) -was announced on Thursday of last week.

Cuca had a lightning passage, which reminded him of another coach who stayed only two games in charge of Corinthians. It was in 2003, when Leovegildo Gama Júnior (the same Júnior who played for Brazil in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups and is a sports commentator) spent ten days on the job. He resigned after two 3-0 defeats.

Cuca’s fall goes down in football history as one of the fastest, but neither he nor possibly any other professional will be able to overcome the Englishman Leroy Rosenior in the interval between being hired and fired.

Now 58 years old, Rosenior was announced on May 17, 2007 by Torquay United, currently in England’s fifth division. Nothing more, nothing less than ten minutes later, he learned that he would not even start his job at the club, which he managed from 2002 to 2006, due to an unusual fact that is very difficult to repeat.

At the same time as the announcement of Rosenior’s hiring, the news came out that Torquay had been acquired by a local consortium, which immediately decided that the coach would be Paul Buckle, a former player at the club. The decision taken by the previous board was invalidated, and Rosenior was unemployed.

The discharged Rosenior faced the situation with irony, according to his statement published by the Mirror newspaper five days after the incident.

“After the shock I had a good laugh. Obviously they thought I had done a fantastic job after ten minutes and let me go.”

Rosenior did not coach any teams after that, choosing instead to pursue a career as a football commentator and also being an activist in the fight against racism in sport.