On Tuesday evening (11), Corinthians beat Universitário, from Peru, in a match valid for the first leg of the Conmebol Sudamericana playoffs, with a score of 1 to 0. Felipe Araújo, present at the press conference together with coach Vanderlei Luxembourg. During […]
On Tuesday evening (11), Corinthians beat Universitário, from Peru, in a match valid for the first leg of the Conmebol Sudamericana playoffs, with a score of 1 to 0. Felipe Araújo, present at the press conference together with coach Vanderlei Luxembourg.
During the conference, Luxemburgo reiterated that the team is constantly evolving thanks to the commitment and trust that the grassroots athletes are acquiring. Furthermore, the coach said he has felt an improvement in the team in recent games, regardless of the result, and reiterated the importance of giving opportunities to the young players of the team.
“These guys transmit confidence day after day. It’s not easy to get them to play in an international match. But I tell them to believe in it and have fun. Football must be played with responsible irresponsibility. And they evolve match after match,” said l ‘Corinthians coach, who even played a samba to ease the nervousness of goal scorer Felipe Augusto, who also participated in the interview.
Additionally, Luxemburgo was also asked what was missing from the game to widen the scoreline and leave Corinthians in a safer position to face the Peruvian side in the second leg, which will be in Lima.
In response to this, the manager said: “A Conmebol Sudamericana is almost a Libertadores. Did they get a little more wrong? They have an opponent. They played with a line of five all the time and for one ball. The they almost found it at the end of the match. We were ahead. There is always something more to do… Of course, winning more is better, but we deserved the result. They had no chances in the 1st half, they done at the end of the game. We had to attack against a five-man line. We did it. A game that was very correct tactically and there we managed to take the lead, we had intensity, but we needed something more.”
Finally, the Corinthians coach concluded the press conference by showing his outrage at CONMEBOL for allowing Corinthians’ next match to take place in Lima, Peru, a country experiencing a Guillain Barré syndrome epidemic . This disease is rare and attacks the peripheral nervous and immune systems, which can cause muscle weakness and inflammation of the nerves.
“It’s a sister country, I’ve been to Peru, Lima, it’s very nice to go there. But regardless of the country, an outbreak is an outbreak, a pandemic is a pandemic. There is a government decree that decreed an outbreak and that must be respected. We are not guinea pigs. Press professionals no longer go there and who will be responsible for us? And if we get contaminated? There is a federal decree, Ministry of Health that says that there is an outbreak. This has to respect.”, disputed the Corinthians coach.
Source: Terra
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