Andre Pederneiras is no longer the leader of Brazil’s famed Nova Uniao team.<\/p>\n
Pederneiras announced that he was stepping down as the teams leader on social media earlier today, this following an initial report from Combate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still here at training, giving the same advices to my athletes,\u201d<\/em> Pederneiras told Combate. \u201cBut if, for instance, Urijah Faber comes here, I\u2019ll be able to give him the same training, regardless of whether he represents Nova Uniao or not. If the people who are training at that time are bothered, I can just arrange a different time with him, a separate training session. Here, I intend to help any type of athlete, make it that he has all the support in training. A jiu-jitsu fighter, for instance, who belongs to a different team and wants to do technical training here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Andre Pederneiras, who coached both Jose Aldo<\/a> and Renan Barao<\/a> to UFC championships, issued the following statement to friends and fans on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n\n