The Italian commander also comments on the end of the winless streak in the classics
After beating Vasco, Fernando Diniz criticized the mass dismissal of Brazilian coaches. The Fluminense coach analyzed the scenario, taking sides in defense of Thiago Carpini, sacked by San Paolo. Watch it in the player above.
– I think that in this sense you (the press) are opinion makers, you participate a lot. They are the ones who beat the coaches the most. Many foreign coaches will come… This is the fashion here: they come here, they don’t win and they get sent away. How many foreign coaches has Botafogo had? And Cruzeiro? It’s a process. The guy arrives, loses… I think what happened to (Thiago) Carpini is ridiculous, and what happens to foreigners too. It’s not that the Brazilian (coach) isn’t useful, nobody is useful. It only works if you win. Abel (Ferreira) hasn’t been there that long because he’s fine. He’s really good, otherwise he wouldn’t earn what he earns. But he is there because he won. When I say this is an analysis of results… There are many good Brazilian coaches, but they have less time. We have more patience in sending foreigners away.
– Roger Machado, in my opinion, is a very good coach and has been out of the market for a long time. Zé Ricardo, Barroca, Vagner Mancini… They are all good coaches, but we think that only those who win are good. The one who came to Botafogo, Bruno Lage, is an excellent coach. If you go to Europe and ask, he has more CVs than many here. But he came to Botafogo, he found himself in the middle of a mess, the championship is difficult. He will impose ideas, he will lose, he will be sent away. Which coach is good? Is Jorge Jesus good because he won so many things here? When he returned to his home, to Benfica, he had bad results, he was sent off, now he is fine in Saudi Arabia. The boy needs to win to prove how good he is.
– We don’t evaluate the contents, there is an automatic system whereby whoever wins is good and whoever loses is bad. I think the team played well today, as they did against Bragantino. But the fact of winning practically nullifies the ability to see and delve into the discussion about football. This is one of the worst evils, a disease of Brazilian football. And now Brazilian coaches are like this. If you take a team with a budget of 30 million in the hands of those I mentioned, among others, and give them time to work, he (the coach) will have a chance to win the championship. When a foreign coach arrives, he is welcome. A technical committee will arrive, soon a manager, a press officer, a journalist. Then we became a colonial country, totally extractive. We need to be a little more careful, which unfortunately we have very little of. I don’t think this relationship is fair to Brazilian coaches.
🎙️ OTHER ANSWERS FROM FERNANDO DINIZ:
13 NON-WINNING CLASSICS
– It’s always nice to win, he finished 13 classics without winning. This news couldn’t stay. Many people will be sad, it will not be possible to create chaos. To recap, many of the classics we missed were because of the Libertadores, the Recopa. If there was another match we would have to save and maybe we wouldn’t win. People like to put everything on the same account. Let’s see what the next topic to discuss will be.
DOES THE END OF FASTING IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT?
– I believe that we are never impervious to things that come from the outside, from our fans, with the advent of social networks in the last 20 years, from the number of people who maintain their opinions. Players, especially younger ones, consume much of the fuss that happens outside of our internal environment. And it’s never positive.
– Even when you praise a lot, there is a negative side. I think the team knew how to work on this. The cold figure is only 13 (games without victories). But as I have explained several times, considering how the matches went, we knew that the victory would come in the end.
– Under normal conditions, we would not have done 13 classics without winning. Not that it couldn’t happen, but it would be very difficult. If I had played with the whole team, I would have rested. The best thing about this classic is the joy it brings to the fans, in addition to winning and climbing the rankings, which is the main goal.
– In terms of atmosphere, it’s the joy of the fans and, as you said, winning by playing well. We made some mistakes, we need to improve, there is a lot to fix. But the team played a good game, especially in terms of scoring.
LOSSES-FREE SEQUENCE FOR VASCO
– Playing at the Maracanã is a great strong point of the team, it always has been, at least since I’ve been here. What we need is to score well away from home again, which we did a lot in 2022 and didn’t achieve as well in 2023. A lot of the games we played away from home in 2023 we played with an alternative team. It made it difficult for us to score. We hope this year to play and score in a more balanced way, to maintain this pace of goals at home. But we have to improve outside.
LEFT SIDE
– I don’t know if Vasco left much space on that side. It turned out that Arias floated more than Marquinhos, so in the end we had a buildup of players on the other side and not many people exploring the left side. If Arias was better positioned, obviously Vasco would have more people on that side.
– It’s a kind of optical illusion. If we had more players there, Vasco wouldn’t be like this. We also scored the goal because of how we were playing. Arias is further inside, the ball comes to Marcelo with a lot of freedom to cross, Ganso makes a nice penetration together with Cano there and ends up scoring a beautiful goal.
GOOSE
– I think that from the moment he enters the area more, even when he doesn’t score, he gives Cano and the other players more chances to score. He is the central organizer of our team, but we always ask him to enter the area more, because he has this ability.
– He’s got good finishing, he’s a big guy, he’s got height. In the match against Bragantino and Colo-Colo Cano does not score the goal, but it is important because he is in the area to divert someone’s attention. In the end, another teammate remains to score the goal.
ARBITRATION
– This is one of the best we have in Brazil, not surprisingly it was for the World Cup. I like his way of whistling, he lets the game go. If we had to complain, I think we would have more to complain about than Vasco. Anyone who whistles like this is ever closer to making another mistake. But it’s a way I like it.
HEADS OR TAILS
– He left the arbitration panel. It wasn’t mandatory, but Ramon and I wanted to go. I think the idea is to have a closer relationship with the referees to calm the atmosphere ahead of the matches.
DEFENDERS AND AIR BALL
– The players did well. Since the match is already over I wanted to see if Vasco had scored another header, if he had had an opportunity, the question would be in this sense. Obviously, when you have defenders, you have a better chance of avoiding the aerial ball. But Vegetti scored one and had other chances.
– The defensive system must improve. We are doing some things well, especially with top marks. But when we lower the block, we allow crossing very easily. When we face a team specialized in this type of game, as is the case with Vasco, the first thing is to prevent crosses from being made.
MARTINELLI
– I think he played a good match today. He ended up getting the goal, a guy who has a lot of volume. When we have players available we will always try to field the best team. Today Felipe Melo and Manoel played, then I played against Antônio Carlos. Antônio is doing very well in training, he is very good in the air and the match required it. On (match) day we ask for something else and we think the team will have a better chance of winning another way, let’s do it another way. As we have done several times.
– I’m talking about last year’s Libertadores, even in 2022 there were many matches in which we used the resource of putting the team further forward and sometimes a midfielder in defence. Martinelli did very well, but he also did very well, perhaps even in the match he played, even better in the one he played against Colo-Colo, as a defender. He is a player who makes me very happy when he manages to have good matches. He is one of the players who works hardest in the club, he has very high training numbers every day. With Martinelli there are no training sessions, he is a boy who works a lot. Exceptional character, he deserves to reap the results.
FOCUSING THE TEAM BEFORE THE CLASSIC
– The fact that Fluminense doesn’t concentrate is an improvement, we’ve never had any problems with that. I thought we needed it. There are players who take longer to recover because they were unable to complete the pre-season, like Cano and Ganso. They didn’t have the pre-season at the beginning of the year because we couldn’t do it even in this period of FIFA appointments. We had a good three weeks and both were recovering from injuries.
– We played a very tiring match there in Bahia, part of it under water, then the pitch was in good condition to play on, but heavy. Difficult match, away match, match ended very late. I thought that yesterday (the concentration) also depended on the importance of the match, on the fact that the match was at 4pm. If it had been 9pm we probably wouldn’t have concentrated. It’s an opportunity to take a break and eat more consistently for everyone. I think he helped the team win today.
Source: Terra
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