After several personalities were outraged at the possibility of Corinthians hiring a Portuguese coach to replace Sylvinho, with the names of Jorge Jesus, Vítor Pereira, Luís Castro and more recently Paulo Fonseca, the president of the São Paulo emblem, Duilio Monteiro Alves , justifies its convictions.
«Over the last two, three years, we have been following what was happening. Flamengo, with Jesus, Abel at Palmeiras, a few others, like Sampaoli, who played for Atlético and Santos. I started to delve deeper into the subject, to study, research, talk to coaches. It’s not an idea now. The foreign coaches I talked to last year, exchanging general ideas about football, surprised me a lot. As a fan I was not an enthusiast of foreign coaches, but my mind has changed», said the manager, in an interview with SporTV’s Grande Círculo program.
Duilio Monteiro Alves went deeper into the matter: «I think we are a little outdated… We cannot generalize, we also have great professionals, scholars, but, from what I have seen in recent years at Corinthians, I think we have managed to have coaches with new concepts, we have You have to have the humility to recognize that.”
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