Ex-Corinthians juggles jobs after stopping due to doping: ‘It still hurts today’

I waited another year after the doping punishment ended. I tried to find new opportunities at other clubs, but the proposals that came my way weren’t pleasing, they weren’t cool. It would be very difficult for you to exchange the right thing, a CLT job, a formal contract, everything nice, for something dubious, which was the proposals that were emerging. I was very clear that professionals have to have a limit.

Leaving Corinthians and regret

Bruno analyzes that four factors contributed to his not being successful at Alvinegro: pressure from Centenário, competition in the position, lack of opportunity and lack of confidence.

First, the period, this issue of the pressure of the centenary, the lack of a Libertadores. Also in my position, with the players who arrived, including Roberto Carlos. There is also the issue of the lack of opportunity with the coach, the base was not very valued, and, on my part, shyness. Not having the confidence to put into practice what I did in the youth category, being too caught up and in awe of professional things. I should have been braver and tried to break it.

The biggest regret in football is returning to Brazil. After leaving Corinthians, he spent a season in Switzerland, but later found stability in Azerbaijan, where he stayed between 2012 and 2014. Although his career went downhill after that, the former player found success in his personal life: he met his wife , with whom he built and is growing his family.