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Judging by what you say, Jorge Jesús will have entered the final stage of the self-knowledge process that began when he joined Benfica in 2009. What does that mean? That the mouths of the pints of Amadora, whose career was built on this charisma, were open and nervous.
What we see now at press conferences and during games is an imperturbable man, with his shoulders slumped and his hands tucked into his pants pockets, according to what life offers him.
If the joke were not bad, we would say that we are facing the antichrist.
Intrigued, a journalist asked him before the Super Cup if he was nostalgic or sad, questioning why he talked so much about Brazil if he had been at Benfica for months. On other occasions, Jorge Jesús would have forgotten where he was and shot the journalist; According to the “Record” newspaper, he ended up being a club advisor to do this job. This time, JJ said that he just disagreed with that opinion and that he had just changed.
– I’m not the same as ten years ago.
I am not sure that Benfica fans are particularly pleased with this change and there is a theory that the coach’s lethargy is infecting the players. There is also another theory, in which it is assumed that the path can be the exact opposite, from them to it, and then we enter the unfathomable realms of the blue whiting.
[Argumentei a favor da primeira hipótese, deixo um argumento para a segunda: este Benfica está novamente mais próximo do Benfica que Luís Filipe Vieira quis cortar pela raiz ao despachar o treinador da formação e ao contratar não sei quantos futebolistas por não sei quantos milhões. Talvez o problema seja mais profundo e talvez o presidente também faça parte dele.]Whatever the cause and effect, it is clear that, in addition to ideas, Benfica lacks courage. In the comments after Wednesday’s Super Cup, there was a majority who criticized the “lack of attitude” of Jorge Jesús’s players, taking as a comparison term “the claw” of Sérgio Conceição’s players. Like many of these talking heads They are ex-footballers, it is clear that determination is as important as tactics, because “bad days, on a technical level” everyone can have theirs. Competing is non-negotiable and it appears that Benfica tried to trade the team effort for the individual hot dog.
And that made Luisão jump the spring.
Luisão and Jorge Jesus share a long history that didn’t start off particularly well. When Rui Costa and Luís Filipe Vieira signed him for Braga in 2009, Jesús imposed a condition: Luisão had to leave Benfica.
The coach did not like what he heard in the locker room, where the footballers – especially Brazilians – commented on the captain’s style and the barbecue at his house, where there was steak and beer. On the one hand, JJ felt that he had to push Luisão away to be the only alpha; on the other, JJ thought that Luisão was a bad influence, with his chopps and encounters in Aroeira.
Rui Costa said no and explained the importance of Luisão. Possibly, Jorge Jesús was unaware of the other side of the Brazilian central defender, who had been at Benfica as long as the president, which made him one of the protégés, and who had built an implacable reputation with his teammates. Whoever stepped on the risk suffered its claws and intimidation, as Sydney came to discover in the worst way. Furthermore, Luisão did not allow any ego to cross in front of him and deconstructed the groups, bringing together Brazilians, Uruguayans, Argentines, and Portuguese, all under his enormous shadow.
Jesús understood the dominant voice and then recognized the singular intelligence that transformed Benfica into an irreproachable defensive team in certain contexts. With the passing of the seasons, respect grew and closeness also grew, an almost friendship that not even JJ’s trip to Alvalade made him tremble. Then it was hinted between the two that they would work together again in the future, and the opportunity came when Luís Filipe Vieira rescued the Flamengo coach.
JJ made him ask what Luisão was and let him know that he wanted him with him and not in an institutional position, with a suit and tie; At the same time, he expressed mistrust of Tiago Pinto, the soccer general manager whom he considered too green for the job. If given a choice, Jesús preferred the former Brazilian to the young leader, and on November 18, Roma announced the hiring of Tiago Pinto, thus opening a vacancy that will be filled at the end of the season by Rui Costa. accumulating functions.
But in addition to the vacant position, the departure of Tiago Pinto – which will take place in January – will also leave a small hole on the bench. As the director still tested positive for covid-19, it was in this chair that Luisão sat on Wednesday night, in Leiria, for the 90 minutes. Then, once the defeat was consummated and another show started, Luisão went to the center and imposed his 1.96 m and his many kilos and his voice on the Benfica players, some of them former teammates. He pointed his finger at them and they remained impassive and with their heads bowed before the symbolic weight of the old captain whose fury Rui Costa tried to soften without success, because Luisão would return to the charge.
Jesús devalued this episode in the press conference that followed, but it is likely that Luisão is key to shaking a team fragmented by the multiple nationalities and power games that comprise it. Without a historical reference and with a bracelet that passes from hand to hand as a messenger – and with a coach who insists on reminding everyone and even with nausea what he did in Brazil – that the sheriff return can restore order in the meantime. lost.
