Fred Returns to Fluminense as Under-20 Coach

Overview

• Fluminense announced Tuesday that Fred will assume command of the under-20 team on August 3 and will present at the club’s CT Vale das Laranjeiras in Xerém.
• The club named Bruno Barros as assistant, Conrado Aguilar as performance analyst, Jefferson Souza as fitness coach and Gabriel Pinho as auxiliary on Fred’s technical staff.
• Felipe Canavan, who had been leading the under-20s, will move to coach the under-17s with Philipe Saboya and Lindolfo Melo as his assistants.
• Fred brings formal coaching credentials (CBF Academy A and B, working toward a UEFA license) and a short youth coaching record at Fortaleza that includes a sub-17 trophy and a tougher sub-20 spell that ended with his May resignation after 14 matches and four wins.
• A club icon who scored 199 goals in 381 official matches and who previously served as Fluminense’s director of sporting planning, Fred’s appointment links the club’s recent institutional continuity to a focused push to develop homegrown players.