[ad_1]
Benfica coach Jorge Jesús today accused the “politicians” of wearing a different “mask” for football, in relation to other sectors of activity, in defense of the return of spectators to the stadiums.
At the end of the press conference to launch Saturday’s game, of the I League, against Moreirense, for which Benfica will invite 20 members to come to the gallery, the coach said that he did not know “which mask they are wearing ”. [políticos] He put “for football”, the activity that best knew how to work and live with the virus “, and said that it is necessary” to be realistic and have a single mask for covid-19 “.
“With all due respect to the Directorate General of Health, I do not understand why there are no spectators in football. This conversation of people who are in football is different from the cinema, the theater, the Avante! Party, fortunately. I was happy there was an Avante party! Anyone who can have control of the organization as it happened and how any club in Portugal can do, and now we have the example of the European Super Cup, I do not understand how 15 or 20 thousand people cannot be at Estádio da Luz ”, he compared Jorge Jesus.
The former Flamengo coach considered that “we have to live” with the new reality of the virus “or if we don’t all go home for a year and we’re all crazy”, before recalling that, in Brazil, “in two weeks there will already be 20 a thousand people inside the stadium ”and concludes that in Portugal you are“ inventing what you have nothing to invent ”.
But before addressing the absence of spectators in the stadiums, Jesús commented on the current situation of Benfica, specifically the future of three players in the club’s formation: Ruben Dias, Florentino and Gonçalo Ramos.
Regarding the possibility that the central defender was sold before the closing of the transfer market, Jorge Jesús recalled that he was “accustomed for six years to the best players being hired”, but assumed that he is an “important player for various reasons ”.
“First, he is one of the members of this team at Seixal academy. Second, because he is the only Portuguese international who plays for Benfica, and that means something, a team like Benfica that only has one player in the national team. So he is a very valuable boy and is very important in that sector ”, analyzed Jesús.
Regarding Florentino, the coach revealed that it was he himself who asked Luís Filipe Vieira not to include a purchase option by Monaco at the end of the loan, since he believes that the young man, 21, “be an asset in the Benfica ”and will return from Monaco“ more player than he left ”.
As for Gonçalo Ramos, who at this time has already scored seven goals in three II Liga games, he limited himself to saying that “the project” is to train with the main team “during the week and, as long as he is not called up, play on the team “. B “, as has happened, without revealing if he wants to give the forward more opportunities.
Right, for the coach, in Saturday’s game, there is the absence of Taarabt, who “will not recover in time”, but the pair he will use in the center of the field is uncertain, since he has “several solutions for this position. face an “organized” Moreirense, who “has not lost their last two games in Luz” and who “will wait for a counterattack or a ready ball” to surprise.
In relation to a news item published during the week, about an alleged altercation between the coach and Julian Weigl, Jesús guaranteed that it was “false”, but stressed that if it had happened “there would be no problem” either.
“I am here to accept my ideas and what I require from the commitment of the team. If I have to face a player, I hit him. But that was not the case ”, he guaranteed.
Benfica will host Moreirense on Saturday, at 6:30 p.m., in a match on the second day of the Portuguese Football League where they will try to continue the good start to the championship achieved with a 5-1 victory in Famalicão, in the opening day.
