José Peseiro, current coach of Nigeria, Pedro Martins, coach of Qatari Al Gharafa, and Luis Freire, coach of Rio Ave, were guest speakers at the Thinking Football Summit panel discussion on the DNA of the Portuguese coach. In a panel moderated by José Pereira, president of the National Association of Football Coaches, everyone, despite having different and well-known recommendations, came to an easy consensus: it is in strategy and game planning that the Portuguese coach is different!
José Peseiro: “The DNA of a Portuguese coach is present in every Portuguese, because we are a people who have historically been able to overcome and do a lot with little. We must appreciate many coaches in the history of our football, such as Pedroto, for example, who, without knowledge, relying only on their creativity, built great teams and brought up great players and won a lot. Specific knowledge about football began with Manuel da Costa, with Jesualdo Ferreira and Carlos Queiroz, who brought Anglo-Saxon and bookish knowledge to the University and contributed to the talents. And for those without a degree, it opens the way. From there, since we are sensitive to learning, they looked for assistants who have the knowledge to help them build great technical teams. When our players become world champions, when Mourinho has a deployment in Europe that he has, Special, who made England with a press conference, that says it all. While English football exploited and sucked him for years, selling this spectacle at his expense, good and pompous, and the way he stood up to everyone, the English, with such jealousy and envy, wanted to get rid of him and cut him out of English football. how they did it. Yes, we have a very good strategic side. We’ve always known how to use it to our advantage, and it somehow sets us apart from others. I dare say that we are the best in the world precisely because of the strategic side that we bring even to the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe game.
Peter Martins: “Our strategic side is really strong. We get a lot of results, often against teams with more resources, because we look at every game that way. In fact, most of my strategy is part of the game plan itself, and there are several ways to explain it, but not now. This evolution was due to a factor that was Carlos Queiroz, someone very important in the preparation of young coaches, in the training methodology. He was important in taking a step forward in the organization of training . Also as a result of the difficulties between more or less 2007 and 2009, which allowed clubs to bet on young Portuguese coaches. When Portugal needed it, the clubs gave the opportunity to Portuguese coaches who were very well prepared and thanks to this the Portuguese coach has evolved a lot, there has been a lot of growth in football too, and it was this momentum that led the Portuguese coach, in general, to take the missing step forward. to become who you are today.”
Louis Freire: “I’m from the generation that went to university in 2004 and 2005 when José Mourinho came along and we drank a little from the Porto boom in Europe. We felt that we were no worse than others and that gave us great self-confidence This is also characteristic of our people, because we adapt to circumstances, to all of them We are able to seek and find a solution, with a little organization and with little effort we manage to extract the most “He is second to none. The DNA of perseverance and resilience is there. Mourinho has taught us to the whole world that we are good and we have the ability, and from there. One of our greatest skills is to work hard on the idea of the game and what we want from It’s the strategic side that makes us think about the game in every training session, in every drill, because we think about games very tactically.Stick in general, but the championship manages to be balanced.Clubs with less financial resources manage to do very good things, in unlike the so-called big clubs, and this balance is only possible when the coaches understand that the game can be prepared with this strategy in mind ic side, which may have a bearing on the result. The final.”
