Fernando Santos sheds light on why Cristiano Ronaldo was substituted in Qatar’s fourth World Cup final.

Experienced Portuguese coach Fernando Santos He was appointed as the new coach of BesiktaThis Sunday announced the emblematic club of the Turkish first division.

The Istanbul team hopes that the 69-year-old coach will help them secure a ticket to the next Champions League.

He Besikta He is currently ranked sixth Super About halfway through the Turkish league championship. They are 18 points off the automatic qualification spots for the next Champions League.

Santos faces this new challenge after a short spell as coach of Poland, where he failed to directly qualify Robert Lewandowski’s side for the Euro 2024 championship.

Santos’ most glorious time as a coach was as coach of Portugal (2014-2022). He was the coach who led his country to the 2016 Euro Cup title.

He has no experience in Turkish football but has experience in neighboring Greece, where he coached important clubs (AEK Athens, Panathinaikos, PAOK Thessaloniki) before becoming that country’s coach (2010–2014), qualifying the Greek team to the round. Round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

In his history, The Besikta He is a 21-time Turkish champion and leads the field this season Former midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain of Liverpool.

The Portuguese was consulted about the decision to leave on the bench Cristiano RonaldoAfter the player got angry, in the quarter finals of the 2022 World Cup Portugal In the final loss to Morocco, Santos played down the matter.

“It was a decision based on tactics and strategy, it was not personal. The team is important. If we had won and continued in the World Cup, there wouldn’t have been so much talk about it,” concluded the new Besiktas coach.