Fans of Vitória yearn for Manuel Cajuda

 27.08.2011

Fans of Vitória yearn for Manuel Cajuda

Most successful trainer of the club named as a possible successor to Manuel Machado.

It was almost automatic. Once the decision of Manuel Machado of resigning of the technical command of Vitória Guimarães was known , several supporters of the club created a Facebook page to the Board of Vitória demanding the immediate hiring of  Manuel Cajuda, making  possible the return of the coach of  higher success in the club's history to Guimarães. According to what is written by today's edition of the newspaper O JOGO, dozens of supporters ask for  the return of Manuel Cajuda, while the sports daily refers to the dream of the fans to put Manuel Cajuda among the most serious candidates to succeed Manuel Machado .

Still, the sports daily recalls how the coach was dismissed of duties by Emilio Macedo, three years ago, just before the start of the season to put some icing on the enthusiasm of the fans. The most striking news is the recognition of the fans by the value and prestige of the coach who took the club of the Orangina league and in the following year, provided to Vitória the best season ever, setting the club in the third place overall, two points behind second-placed,  the Sporting of Paulo Bento and putting the club of Minho in the qualifying round for the Champions League.

In Guimarães, all remember that the access to the "Champions" would have been possible in Basel, if one of the biggest mistakes of arbitration in the history of Portuguese football did not happen, in Basel, which eliminated Manuel Cajuda and "his" Vitória of the possibility of integrating the group stage of the Champions League.

All these are results and memories that the fans do not forget and make Manuel Cajuda the coach they would like to see return to Vitória Guimarães. However, as the newspaper O JOGO admits, the way Manuel Cajuda was removed from the helm of the club - allegedly for crimes of opinion, after an interview to the same newspaper - is a thorn in the side of the coach.