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Do you believe Filipe Luís could become Brazil’s great standard-bearer in Europe? An example to be followed? “He can… He can. Now, going a little deeper into your question, Filipe is more the product of himself — of his study and interest, of his whole career in Europe as well, always very engaged — than actually a standard, a banner for Brazilian coaches. I don’t think things can be put that way. To say, ‘now we have Filipe here, who will succeed because the Brazilian school of coaching is successful again.’ I think that would even be bad for Brazil itself — which, in my opinion, needs to reflect deeply on many things — to associate Filipe Luís’s success, or his possible success in Europe, which we hope he will have, with something that has a lot to do with what would be the evolution of Brazilian coaches.” What are the differences between Filipe Luís and Leonardo Jardim when it comes to working with the market? “It’s always different. Working with De Zerbi is different from working with Luís Castro. Working with (Paulo) Fonseca is different from working with Leonardo Jardim. Coaches have their playing models and their player profiles. There are coaches who place a lot of importance on one factor, while other coaches place less importance on that factor and value other factors.” So what does Leonardo value more, then…? “Let me finish, because I think it’s important for people to understand this. Sometimes the market experience you have, being involved in the market… And in Filipe’s case, he didn’t have much. Leonardo has much more experience. He has many years in football. And he has much more experience in understanding, at times, how the market works. Because sometimes what is difficult in working with a coach is that he doesn’t understand that the market doesn’t work like that — you don’t buy a player for 10 and, a month later, that player isn’t playing and you still can’t sell him for 10. That doesn’t exist. When you have more experience, you know that can’t happen. You’re going to lose money when you want to sell a player you bought a short time ago and he isn’t being used. Those are the small nuances that also make the difference between working with one and working with another. It’s not better or worse. It’s different. Of all the new coaches I’ve had throughout my career, on this side here, every one of them is different. Every single one.” Is Leonardo Jardim among the five best Portuguese coaches today? “You can go look up an interview I gave in January. I consider Leonardo one of the best Portuguese coaches, aside from (José) Mourinho. And based on facts. It’s not that I like Leonardo more, or that I like Paulo Fonseca more, or that I like Luís Castro more, people I’ve already worked with. It’s the facts, the results. And there is no other Portuguese coach, other than Mourinho, who has won a league title in the Big Five. There’s Mourinho, who has been around there for a long time, and then there’s Leonardo. That fact alone already makes him a coach with a résumé different from all the others. That doesn’t mean that, in a few years, it won’t happen, that there won’t be other good coaches who will win. I consider Leonardo, without a doubt, to be in the top 3 of Portuguese coaches over the last 10 or 15 years.”

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