Dante’s reconversion is already ready. At the beginning of February, the central defender of OGC Nice announced that he would end his playing career at the end of the 2025-2026 season, after more than twenty-four years playing professionally.
“At some point I have to position myself, also so that the club prepares for the future, he confided after the victory against RC Lens (2-0). Considering how the season is going, how I feel physically, in my recovery, I still feel capable of doing one more season. It will be the last. »
After ten years spent in the Nice jersey, the Brazilian is now preparing to return to Bayern Munich, the club with which he shone between 2012 and 2015. Not as a squad player, but as coach of the reserve teams.
Dante will become a coach
Indeed, according to information from the journalist of Sky Sports Florian Plettenberg, Dante has already signed his contract and will join the Bavarian ranks at the start of the next school year. His main mission will be to train the U23s, as well as the reserve team (U23, U19 and U17 players). He will succeed Holger Seitz.