DALLAS, Texas — Recently appointed technical director of Jamaica’s football Brazilian Alfredo Montesso has quit, the Jamaica Observer has learnt.

President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Captain Horace Burrell confirmed that he has received and accepted the Brazilians’ resignation.

The other Brazilian in the programme, Under-20 head coach Luciano Gama, will also be making his way home, bringing an end to an era of Brazilian coaching domination at the national level in Jamaica.

“I have received the resignations of the men and have accepted them and I expect that both gentlemen will be returning to their homeland at the shortest possible time.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their contribution to Jamaica’s football and I wish them all the best as they move to the next chapter of their lives as coaches,” Burrell told the Observer here yesterday.

The JFF boss said that Montesso had indicated even as he was appointed technical director that he was interested in a full coaching appointment, preferably with the senior national team.

“He had shown an interest in the head coaching job, but there was no vacancy for that position. When (Theodore) Whitmore left the position, we knew straight away that we needed someone who had the experience of leading a national team and one with success behind his name,” said Burrell, who is in the USA for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Just a week ago, Whitmore’s successor as head coach of the Reggae Boyz was unveiled in the form of German national Winfried Schafer, the former head tactician of Cameroon, the team he guided to the African Cup of Nations title in 2006.

“The Brazilians came and they did their best to help Jamaica’s football, but now it’s time for us to move on as we look to strengthen our ranks as we get ready for the remaining matches of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying play-offs beginning with a game away to Panama on September 6,” Burrell noted.

However, when contacted last evening, Montesso said he was forced into a corner with a possible clash of philosophy, and the fact that Schafer would not be reporting to him, as technical director.

“Once you have a particular philosophy, like you have a technical director from Brazil and then… once the president takes a decision to have a German coach, of course it’s something we have to discuss and we have to see if this can match,” Montesso said.

“The coach says he wants to do the senior team in his way. He will not be reporting to the technical director and I don’t agree with that, and of course I have to take a position if I don’t agree.

“This is what the president said in an interview that he (Schafer) will be reporting directly to the president. I don’t think that is the way I want to work,” he added.

The departure from the programme by Montesso and Gama follows the dismissals of their countrymen, technical director Walter Gama (Luciano’s father) and goalkeeper coach Armando Bracali following a shambolic performance of the Boyz in the Caribbean Cup in Antigua and Barbuda last December.

The decision to dismiss the senior Gama and Bracali was said to have emerged from what was deemed a technical review process by the JFF Technical and Development Committee headed by Howard McIntosh.

That review of the disaster in Antigua was ordered by Burrell.

Jamaica failed to make it to the semi-finals of the Caribbean tournament, which effectively eliminated them from the ongoing CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Montesso, who has had two prior stints with the national programme, first came to Jamaica as a trainer on the Rene Simoes-led technical team that guided the Boyz to their historic France 1998 World Cup qualification.

The Brazilian’s latest sojourn was enabled after he was handpicked by Whitmore to assist with the senior Boyz in 2011.

But after the resignation of Whitmore, following the team’s 0-2 loss to Honduras on June 11, in the World Cup qualifying play-offs that threw the Boyz’ campaign in a tailspin, the JFF moved to a new course of action.

As the search continued for a new head coach of foreign import, Montesso was diverted to focus more on the development side of the programme.