Rui Costa on Roger's São Paulo priority: Brasileirão, cup or Sudamericana | OneFootball

Already in Bogotá, Colombia, where São Paulo will face Millonarios in the Copa Sudamericana, football executive Rui Costa revealed the goals the board set for coach Roger Machado regarding the competitions the club is still playing this year.

In an interview with Rádio Bandeirantes on Monday night (27), on the eve of the Tricolor’s match, the much-criticized executive said he had a meeting with the coach, along with Rafinha and president Harry Massis, in which the team’s priorities for the year were laid out.

“We offered him not a project, but set goals with him, in a formal meeting we held, attended by president Massis, Rafinha, myself and him, in which we need to get back to the Libertadores, that is fundamental at São Paulo, São Paulo and its fans deserve to be in the Libertadores, that is the first project,” Rui began.

“And securing a place in the Libertadores can happen by winning the Sudamericana, by winning the Copa do Brasil, or through a strong finish in the Brazilian Championship.”

“Then, the priority today is the Brazilian Championship, after that we will focus heavily on the Copa do Brasil, because of what it offers in terms of prize money, and we will obviously respect the Sudamericana, because every competition São Paulo enters, it has to aim for the title, or at least it has to respect the fans’ desire, which is also ours, to win,” explained the Tricolor director.

“So Roger is very clear on that: we have to get back to the Libertadores, we have to go as far as possible in the Copa do Brasil and try to win that title again. I know what it means to win the Copa do Brasil at our stadium, with our fans, and the joy that brings them.”

“And our dream here, all of us who are here every day, is to turn São Paulo fans’ dissatisfaction, which I deeply respect, into joy, into smiles, into satisfaction, because that’s what we work for every day,” Costa concluded.

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