After many figures were outraged by the prospect of Corinthians appointing a Portuguese coach to replace Sylvinho, with the names of Jorge Jesus, Vitor Pereira, Luis Castro and more recently Paulo Fonseca, the head of the São Paulo logo, Duilio Montero Alves, this is justified convictions.
“For the last two or three years, we’ve been following what was happening. Flamengo with Jesus and Abel at Palmeiras and others like Sampaoli who played for Atletico and Santos. I started to delve into the subject, to study, research and talk to coaches. It’s not an idea now. The foreign coaches that I spoke to. To them last year, and they exchanged general ideas about football, they surprised me very much. As a fan, I was not enthusiastic about foreign coaches, but my opinion has changed”, said the manager, in an interview with the Grande Círculo program of SporTV.
Duilio Monteiro Alves delved into the topic: “I think we are a bit outdated … We can’t generalize, we also have great professionals and scientists, but from what I’ve seen in recent years in Corinthians, I think we’ve been able to get coaches with the new concepts, you have to have Humbled to realize that.”
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