Batatais praises players' grit: “We faced a side like Ceará” | OneFootball

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Ceará beat Avaí 2-1 on Wednesday night, the 10th, at Presidente Vargas, with goals from Júlio César and Melk. After the match, valid for the 12th round of Série B, Vozão’s interim head coach, Anderson Batatais, gave a press conference to the media present at the stadium.

In one of his answers, the coach highlighted his players’ attitude in the win over the team from Santa Catarina. For Batatais, more important than the three points won was the assertive way the team played.

“We have a team the size of Ceará, with the fan base it has. Look at how much Ceará moves—media, supporters, an entire state, in general. Everything that has happened is part of our uniform. We hope they keep up this performance because we have to try to win games in the best way possible and in the way our anthem sings to us: Ceará, your glory is to fight. So the fans identify with us when we fight the way we fought today,” he said.

“I said that we needed to get back to doing what the guys did today. You look at the players who identify with the fans, and you have to seek that identity. And I told them, if we go onto the field today representing the supporters, they’ll buy into our war, our fight. We have to learn to be a thermostat—we’re the ones who set the energy, the heat that we want. The fans watch, see a team that is representing them, and they come along with us. It has always been like that at Ceará,” Anderson Batatais concluded.

These and other excerpts from the post-match interview after Ceará 2-1 Avaí are available on Vozão TV’s YouTube channel.

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