Jesualdo praises Palmeiras and warns Abel Ferreira about Brazil: “They want to win yesterday” | palms

In exclusive conversation with the report of give, Jesualdo Ferreira bet on what he thinks is Abel Ferreira’s greatest enemy since taking over Palmeiras: the busy schedule of Brazilian football. The analysis comes from Santos’ own experience.

– Abel has good conditions to be able to do a good job and to fight for titles. I know that in the next four months Palmeiras have more than 20 games, and that is a big problem in Brazil: there is no time to work. Working is not just talking, saying good or bad things. To organize a team you have to talk, train and train. If you don’t, you can’t – said the 74-year-old Portuguese coach.

– It is as if you were going to the sea and only there to check if the weather was good or bad. Many things are out of your control. Time is very short because the fans and the press are very demanding. They have a lot of passion, they love football and they want to win if possible for yesterday, which is impossible – he added.

– Brazilian soccer questions what is happening with Brazilian coaches and why soccer here is not progressing. But nobody asks what soccer must do in their organization for coaches to be successful in Brazil. What I have to do? Is there a pandemic that stops football for four months and comes back anyway, without adjusting the schedule? There is no equal – argued Jesualdo Ferreira, citing the almost null adaptation of the calendar to rest by Covid-19.

Faced with this scenario of absolute pressure from all sides, Jesualdo Ferreira also gives Palmeiras a message. Highly praising the skill of the young coach, the former Santos commander asks the club’s people for patience. both board, players, fans and press.

– Abel Ferreira will be difficult to succeed if he does not have support. But before the coach succeeds, the club succeeds. People don’t realize that by not supporting the coach, they are not supporting the club. The first injured are the coaches, but then the players are injured and then the coaches. What gives hope is that they join in and support the coach. Then you can analyze – explained Jesualdo.

– I’m sure Abel knows all the Palmeiras players, but you only know one player even when you work with him. The players, on the other hand, do not know him. So how do you do it? If there is no solidary attitude on the part of the club and Palmeiras football, if the Palmeiras people, the entire professional structure, are not together, rowing on the same side, it will be difficult for a coach to triumph, either at Palmeiras, Santos or Flamengo – declared.

Working characteristics

Jesualdo Ferreira met Abel as a player. In 2004, when he was in charge of Braga, the former Santos coach hired then-defender Abel Ferreira. Together, they fought for the Portuguese title and valued each other so much that the “student” moved to Sporting a year later.

At Sporting, the two met, now as coaches. Jesualdo Ferreira took over the Lisbon club in 2013 and returned to work with Abel, at the time of the U19 coach and weekly teammate. There he saw potential and became an advisor to the man who is close to being announced in Palmeiras.

– Abel is someone who has within him what I understand is the most important thing to be a coach: wanting to improve more every day, have a passion for the game and be someone who believes in his ideas. Abel believes in them and gets down to work to do what is possible and what is impossible to fulfill them. Their teams are normally organized, as they attack and defend with balance, with very close players in the game, with great intensity – said Jesualdo, who sees Palmeiras compatible with the ideas of Abel Ferreira.

– Palmeiras have a squad that fits with Abel Ferreira. In my opinion, I am not saying that it is better or worse than Flamengo, São Paulo, the Palmeiras squad is of the best level and has a lot of quality from what I could see there in Brazil. In a first phase of Paulistão, Palmeiras was indisputably better than Santos, better than Corinthians and better than São Paulo – added the coach, who is confident in the relationship that will be built.

– At that time I was the best (team) I saw. We had an excellent game against Palmeiras, a 0-0 draw, in the game I played against Yuri Alberto, and I liked it. Abel will have players to make a team at the level of Palmeiras as a club – Jesualdo Ferreira concluded