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After the dismissal of coach Thomas Tuchel, Paris Saint-Germain has a deal with Mauricio Pochettino, according to the French press The parisian me The team. The Argentine’s choice is mainly due to the club’s dressing room being predominantly Spanish, with Neymar, Rafinha and Marquinhos also fluent in the language. And in the history of Pochettino’s relationship with Brazilians in soccer, his friendship with Ronaldinho Gaúcho stands out.
The relationship between Pochettino and Ronaldinho Gaúcho is strong and was built in PSG itself. They played together for the French club between 2001 and 2003. They reached the same transfer window and left the team at the same time.
In the exchange of praise between them, Ronaldinho Gaúcho even pointed to Pochettino’s Tottenham as a strong candidate for the Champions League in 2019. This happened when the team was still in the quarterfinals of the historic dispute in which it reached the final for the first time – was defeated in a 2-0 decision for Liverpool. The Argentine coach saw Ronaldinho’s words as a message of support from a friend.
“This is an incentive for my team. Receiving a vote of confidence from Ronaldinho is something great. He was always a great teammate when we played together at PSG and we had a good time together, but not off the pitch,” Pochettino recalled, ending with a “you [jornalistas] know why “.
Pochettino repeatedly recalled his relationship with the Brazilian star. The Argentine chose him as one of the five best players and has already compared him with his compatriot Diego Maradona.
“Ronaldinho is a player who arouses admiration in any child. My son used to say: ‘Inho, Inho, Inho’, he was not even two years old and he didn’t really speak, but he saw Ronaldinho dancing, with the ball on his back, around his neck , in commercials. This is what I really regretted about Maradona in Argentina “, Pochettino analyzed.
The Hispanic dressing room was also an advantage for Neymar
The meeting of Hispanics is an advantage to facilitate the communication of Pochettino in PSG. In the team considered to be a starter, only French defender Presnel Kimpembe does not understand the coach’s mother tongue.
Speaking fluent Spanish and unable to communicate in French in the locker room, Neymar overcame the difficulty of the initial relationship in large part due to PSG’s stance of seeking only Hispanic players to favor the Brazilian.
There are eight players in the squad (Navas, Sergio Rico, Bernat, Paredes, Herrera, Sarabia, Di Maria, Icardi) with Spanish as their mother tongue. In addition to them and the Brazilians Marquinhos, Rafinha and Neymar, the Italians Florenzi, Verratti and Kean and the French Mbappé are able to communicate in Spanish.
At the beginning of Neymar’s move to PSG in 2017, the predominant language was still French. Neymar trusted Thiago Silva and Marquinhos, fluent in the language, in discussions with the group. The then German coach, Thomas Tuchel, studied French intensively to adopt the language as a standard and also had a translator hired by the club in his first year in office.
