Tuca Ferretti’s past in Brazil is little known

Today, September 15, Ricardo Ferretti is complying 30 years as a coach in Mexican football, Which makes him the only one who has run so long uninterruptedly.

The biggest league trophy winner in the history of Mexican football, next to the mythical Ignacio Nacho Trelles, is remembered for this facet, as practically the Tuca he has won it all in Mexico. But what happened to the Brazilian in his home country? Do you have any history?

Ricardo Ferretti d’Oliveira was born on February 22, 1954 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brother of the dead star of the Botafogo in the sixties and seventies, Fernando Ferretti.

is called than in Brazil when listening to the surname Ferretti, Just think of the scorer of the club albinegre and not in the player and coach who went on to make a career out of Mexico.

Ferretti to begin its soccer race in the same equipment of its brother, Botafogo in 1968. In the Rio de Janeiro team, Fernando was already a well-known player, in fact, having been the league’s top scorer that season, he attended the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico with the Brazilian national team, Was the Breakers of the team with two goals, expelled in the last group match against Nigeria and remaining in the group stage with the canarinha.

Being his brother and a well-established player in Brazil, Ricardo began to play in the inferiors of club of Rio, he moved on to the first team where he had very few performances in tournaments, he entered on spare occasions by the holders Puruca or Cremilson. The opportunities were very few for the Tuca in the set of Mario Zagallo, Which in fact, was crowned for the first time in 1968 in the Brazilian championship.

Del Botafogo, Ricardo passed to the Basque gives to Gamma in 1975, where he ran with the same luck as on his previous team, the lack of minutes was a constant for the Brazilian winger, so a year later it was ceded to the success, Team of lower hierarchy in the Brazilian bay.

In the set of fluminense district it could not be consolidated either. The same thing happened to Ferretti as some football voices claim from the coach, his lack of interest in consolidating young promises within his teams. since he was never able to show up in Brazilian football because no club gave him a chance to settle and race on the top circuit.

In 1977 he was contacted by the player representative Nicolás Gravina, that convinces him to go and try Mexican football with him Atlas of Guadalajara. The footballer accepts the offer seeing that his future in Brazil would not be very promising and here began one of the most promising careers we know in Mexican football.

First with those of the Academy, Where he went down this season, then moved on to one glorious and well-known step of consolidation with the Pumas of the Independent National University of Mexico, from 1978 to 1985, with a small second stage out of its race between 1990 and 1991.

Ricardo Ferretti, the famous leader with a peculiar humor is not found in any of the history books of Brazilian football, unlike his brother, and there are very few people in his home country who only know who he is.

Very different thing from the nation where he has been rooting for more than 40 years and has already written in books one of the greatest stories in Mexican football, both as a player and as a technical director.

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