The Portuguese coach Carlos Queirozthe coach of Qatar, warned that international football runs “serious risks” because it has become a business, where companies with “interests” that are sometimes “antagonistic” within the same team is trained.
“I look at contemporary football and sometimes I don’t quite know what we are dealing with. Yes, this sport still has traces of the original ethics of football, its romanticism, but I prefer to call this is now a ‘winning business’ sport. ,” he said in an interview released this Wednesday by the Qatar Federation.
In the interview, on the occasion of his 70th birthday and his 40-year career, the former coach of Real Madrid explained that before, trophies and competitions were created first and then financial gains, whereas now it is the opposite .
“That’s why international football for national teams and clubs runs a serious risk. At first, naive and romantic heroes were trained. Later we started calling them professionals. Later we started training millionaires. Now we train real companies, with diverse and sometimes even conflicting interests on the same team,” he said.
He also considered that coaches have lost importance, “sometimes through their own fault”, because they have given space and “territory of intervention” to agents and the media. However, he argued that it is the responsibility of the coaches to “work for development, defend and promote at the same time the great concept of success as a team, and at the same time ensure the basic ethics of the sport.”
At the training level, the current challenge is “the brain and everything related to the player’s decision-making, from training to high competition,” he said. “New discoveries of brain learning science open new paths in training and consequently in game and competition. An example is all the innovative potential of virtual training,” he explained.
Three moments in his four-decade career
Queiroz, born in Mozambique but a Portuguese national, highlighted three moments in his four-decade career, the first being the 1966 World Cup, which had an impact on his youth, “above all because of the example and contribution of Mozambicans to Team Portugal”.
Also the 1982 World Cup event: “I had the opportunity to contribute in my humble work to Tele Santana and Moraci (Brazilian coach and technical assistant), who took the first steps in the world of scouting and opponent analysis for the amazing that amazing team”.
In the end, he remembered winning the first U20 World Cup with Portugal. “These three moments define the profile of my career. But of all, the most important frame of my life is my father, also a player and coach,” he said.
Queiroz now leads the Qatar team, after going through the national teams of Portugal and Iran, both in two stages, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Colombia and Egypt.
“This challenge is also a tribute of gratitude to all that football has given during these 40 years. I refer to the unique human, social and cultural experiences that I have gone through. I can say that, thanks to football, I Now a man in the world”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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