Bubista is gone from Cape Verde, and Moroccan club RS Berkane have landed one of African football's most in-demand coaches. The man who turned a World Cup debutant into one of the tournament's most watchable sides has signed a two-year contract with the CAF Confederation Cup holders.
Pedro Brito — universally known as Bubista — built something genuinely special with Cape Verde. They held eventual champions Spain to a goalless draw, with 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha delivering the kind of performance that would have been dismissed as fiction in a film script. Back-to-back draws against Uruguay and Saudi Arabia followed, enough to seal second in the group and a round-of-32 date with Argentina.
A tournament exit that felt like a triumph
Argentina won 3-2, but it took extra time to settle it. Sidny Lopes Cabral's equaliser in that period was voted the best goal of the tournament. Cape Verde went home without advancing, but nobody who watched them left unimpressed.
The Cape Verde federation thanked Bubista publicly for his "dedication, professionalism, and contribution" — the kind of send-off that signals a mutual, clean split rather than any friction. He was always going to attract serious interest after that campaign. Berkane moved quickly.
The Moroccan club won the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup in 2025, a significant achievement, but the ambition is clearly bigger. Berkane are also the home club of Fouzi Lekjaa, Morocco's powerful football administrator and a close ally of FIFA President Gianni Infantino — which tells you something about the institutional weight behind the project. Bubista isn't walking into a quiet backwater. He's walking into a club with connections and expectations.
Replacing one Africa connection with another
His predecessor, Moine Chaabani, departed for Tunisia — another side preparing for the World Cup — so there's a clear pattern here of clubs raiding each other's coaching talent as the tournament approaches. Berkane's timing in snapping up Bubista was sharp.
Whether he can translate national team momentum into club football success is the real question. The tools, the backing, and the platform are there. The CAF Confederation Cup title showed Berkane can win. Now they want someone who can make them must-watch.
Bubista did exactly that with Cape Verde on the world stage. Berkane are betting he can do it again.
