Palmeiras midfielder Raphael Veiga has found coach Fernando Diniz again, this time in the Brazilian national team. After Wednesday’s training session in Mangueirão, the stadium for the match between Brazil and Bolivia, the player cited the coach’s influence on his career and praised his work.
“I won’t summarize his help to my development on the field only. He always cared about the person off the field to give good results. He helps every player. Today I’m a completely better player because of him,” said Veiga.
Raphael Veiga and Fernando Diniz worked together on two occasions before meeting in the Brazilian national team. First of all in Audax, still in the basic categories, and in Atletico-PR, already in the professional level. With the Hurricane they were champions of the Copa Sudamericana in 2018.
“I think we can learn from this will he has to win. Everyone will listen to him a lot because everyone has a lot to teach. There’s this respect here. If he’s here, he has merits. It’s a new idea, “It’s hard to find a coach think like him. A guy with great ideas. He has everything to be a winner. He’s a guy who creates men, he doesn’t just think about results. I think this could be his biggest win.” Seeing players who maybe, like me, have worked there and helped me get here with more maturity.
The call-up for the FIFA appointment in September was the first for Fernando Diniz as national coach. Soon also the first works of the group with the ideas of the new coach. Veiga admitted that the adaptation isn’t happening as fast as they would like, but that the group is focused on making the best of it.
“It doesn’t happen overnight, it’s something that is built. This relationship will come in training sessions, in matches. But we adapt very easily. Here are the best in Brazil. It will be difficult to achieve this relationship, but it will be every training session. every game,” he said. “The atmosphere is really nice. Most of them already know each other. Everyone has the same desire in this new cycle, to show and make it happen. So, everyone is willing to learn. It’s a new, different style of play, so this it motivates many athletes, everyone is interested. There is a very good connection between the players and the commission,” he concluded.
Brazil takes to the field this Friday for the first round of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, against Bolivia, at 21:45 (Brasilia time). Then, on the 12th, the team will face Peru, in Lima, at 11pm.
Source: Terra
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