In October 2022, Dacia Unirea Brăila was taken over by a group of investors from Italy and Argentina, and they appointed a coach from Portugal to the technical bench.

João Manuel Pinto, the new coach of “Dacia Uniria” Breil. He won the title 4 times with FC Porto as a player

Dacia Unirea Brăila, a team from Romania’s third division, owned by foreigners, will be coached by Portuguese Joao Manuel Pintu.

The 49-year-old coach is a former defender who played for Portugal and played for Porto and Benfica Lisbon. In the 1998/99 season, he was a colleague of Basarab Panduru.

He started his coaching career in 2013, but so far he has not achieved much success.

“Thank you to the club Dacia Unirea Brăila for contacting me. After a long discussion with the sports director, where he explained the reconstruction project, I made a decision.

I want to say that my decision to come to Braila is not an economic decision, but thanks to my close friendship with Gianluca Pavanello and a sports project in which I will be fully involved with my way of understanding football, I hope to be able to bring my experience to the club and to the players, to create something important.” – he told the club’s official website.

Joao Manuel Pinto had only managed teams from the lower echelons of Portugal and Brazil, going on a hellish mission at Team Braille.

Dacia Uniria Brail is in last place in the Serie 2 standings of the third league with only two points from 15 stages.