Raja Athletic Club announced, in a statement, the resignation of Adel Baqili, from his position as a member of the managerial office, responsible for the sports project, thus continuing the team’s administrative and sporting stumbles in recent times, since Adel Hala assumed the presidency.
The Rajawi team explained, in the same report, that it had disengaged from its Algerian player, Yousry Bouzouk, and had also disengaged from Portuguese coach Ricardo Sabinto by mutual consent, with the task of team coach being temporarily assigned to Hafid Abdel Sadiq.
The temporary technical staff for Raja Sports will consist of Hafeez Abdel Sadiq as coach, Hisham Abu Sherwan as assistant, Sharaf El-Din Mazour as physical equipment, then Saeed Al-Daghai as coach of the goalkeepers, awaiting the contract with a new coach to lead the team during the coming period.
Raja Athletic Club had announced its contract with Portuguese coach Ricardo Sabinto to coach the team, succeeding Rosmir Cvejko, on the 10th of last October, as a result of the fluctuation in the results of Anas Al-Zeniti’s teammates at the beginning of the current sports season, during the professional championship competitions in its first division.
Portuguese coach Ricardo Sabito did not have a good start with Raja Athletic Club, as the supporters and team management had hoped, after he struggled with negative results during the eight matches he played with Adam El-Nafati’s teammates, since he took over the leadership to succeed Bosnian Rosmir Zveko, whose results also did not help him continue the journey.
Since Sabito assumed the leadership of Raja Athletic Club, it has been able to achieve victory on only two occasions, as it was defeated in its first match with a goal by two goals against CS Salmi, before drawing with both the Royal Army, Moghreb Fes, and then the Meknassi club without goals, putting itself in a difficult position. With the team's management, I hoped it would get off to a good start.
The team's negative results continued, after a 0-0 draw with Moghreb Tetouan, and a similar goal in the Casablanca derby with its traditional rival Wydad Athletic Club, before the first victory was achieved during the 12th round by three goals to one against Hassania Agadir, followed by the second victory in a match postponed from week 13, with two goals. For a goal against the Turkish Sports Federation.
During the African Champions League competitions, Ricardo Sabinto was unable to lead Raja Athletic to any victory in the group stage, after being defeated in the first match with two clean goals against the Royal Army, before tying with one for the same with Manyema Anyon from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and then being defeated with a clean goal. Against Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa.
Raja Athletic currently occupies seventh place with 20 points, achieved through five victories, three of which were achieved under the leadership of Abu Sherwan and Al-Jinani, and five draws, compared to three defeats, while it is bottom of the second group during the African Champions League competitions, with only one point, from a draw and two defeats. .
Portuguese Ricardo Sabinto is considered the second coach to be dismissed by the Raja Athletic administration this season after Rosmir Cveco, who left the team after failing to lead him to victory in the professional tournament, as they were defeated in two successive matches, by RS Berkane with a clean goal, and Ittihad Tangier by three. Goals for one, while leading him to be in the group stage of the African Champions League.
