Portuguese newspaper A Bola today shares a long interview with former Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha.
The coach, who worked at the Ibrox back in 2017, is now living in Brazil, where he’s in charge of Red Bull Bragantino.
Caixinha’s time at Rangers continues to be very important for his career, since Michael Beale’s side were the only European club he actually managed.
It turns out A Bola gave him a tricky question about that. Caixinha had just mentioned that his best experience had been in Mexico, and the outlet wanted to know if his time at the Glasgow side was the worst.
Caixinha explained that he managed Rangers in a complicated situation, and says he had personal problems while in Scotland as well.
“In studies, I completed two levels of the coaching course there and I loved how they welcomed me, the contents, how much I learned. At work, however, I arrived with Rangers back in the first division after that descent to hell in the last division, a far cry from Celtic, which built a national hegemony and played in the Champions League every year,” former Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha told A Bola.
“Rangers’ obsession was to avoid the nine in a row, that is, for Celtic to be champions nine times in a row, a feat only for Rangers, but our fight was still like Aberdeen, like Hearts, it was step by step until we reached Celtic’s level. We even started well but then bad results came up and mistrust was born. It was a shame, it’s a huge club with 50,000 fans at Ibrox every game. At the same time, my children loved the academic side but not the social side, because they didn’t make friends, they came home from school crying. Maybe today, with the experience I gained, it would go better…”
Pedro Caixinha took charge of Rangers in March 2017 and left in October that year. In his time with the club, he had 14 wins, five draws and seven losses in 26 matches.
Since his departure, the Ibrox side have had Greame Murty, Jimmy Nicholl, Steven Gerrard, David McCallum, Giovanni van Bronckhorst and finally Michael Beale in charge of the squad.
