The Brazilian exploded in the middle of the analysis of the defeat with Junior. ‘I’m not here to be nice’.
Paulo Autuori.
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Writing Footballred
April 10, 2023, 10:59 p.m. m.
The match of date 12 of the BetPlay I League left fans and press dissatisfied, as it was lost at homeagainst a team that just a few weeks ago was in crisis, and for that reason there was criticism of the purslane team.
However, Autuori did not look upset with the defeatbecause he understood that “this is a game that one wins 1-0 or does not lose, but unfortunately the goal came even though Junior has not built”.
“If you analyze the game, we played a good game. We had every opportunity to pull it off. The rival seems to me to have finished twice. I analyze, I am not a slave to results. For me the players played a great game and the result erases absolutely nothing”, added the Brazilian coach.
Autuori looked smiling and took the pressure off his players: “The result is important, but we are stuck there. We have a 75 working day competitive period. The guys are involved in everything we’ve done in a short time. We already won a title, we are involved to win the tournament, and clearly we could be better and we work for that, with an internal demand from the boys themselves. But I don’t judge, I analyze and to analyze I have to go deeper and I liked the verticality we had in the first part. Now they traveled 18 hours and played a very good game”.
“We have progressed a lot at a competitive level, but we need to add game quality. I do not doubt because I have already lived a lot. Between a team with a lot of scent and a competitive one, I don’t hesitate to choose the competitive one, because of everything I’ve experienced”, said the Brazilian coach.
And when the press conference was halfway through, Autuori had a brush with the journalist Luciano Gonzálezwho criticized the calm of the coach and asked if he believed that the 22,000 fans who attended the stadium on a Monday could have the same calm.
“That is a question one asks to be nice and popular with people.. I’m not here to take popular measures or to be nice, I am a leader and I am not going to lose my peace of mind (because of the result) and my convictions (…) I have not said that nothing has happened, when did I use that term? Tell me,” Autuori told the journalist.
González replied that he did not use the term, “but I see it so calm”; and there Autuori exploded: “Am I going to lose my peace of mind because of the result of a match? Man, you ask what people want to hear, and the press has a huge responsibility because it is fundamental in the football process and how it transcends economic, social life… That’s not analysis, they think they know… I am calm and I am not going to lose my tranquility; you they use terms as if it were a drama or a tragedy”.
Listen here to the entire press conference of Paulo Autuori: