Lucas Silva: Players and staff united behind the coach | OneFootball

“I think it’s 50%-50% when it comes to responsibility between coach and player. When things don’t go as everyone expects, when expectations aren’t met and everyone is left uncomfortable, it’s up to us players to understand that and improve both individually and collectively.”

“And also to put ourselves in the coach’s shoes, and something I see as important is whether the group will really stand by the coach. Because Tite is a guy who arrived, super nice, honest, made it clear that his idea is to play whoever is in the best form and the door is open for everyone to talk. That makes the group feel the coach’s pressure and we say ‘we’re united with the coach’. That’s our daily conversation. Our training sessions are good, our environment is even better and we want to give this response to the fans and to ourselves as well, with any coach.”

“It’s very clear and defined for us. The coach is Tite. He’s the one who picks the team, makes substitutions, selects the squad for the games and everything else. And he’s very open for his assistants to make tactical adjustments, defense, positioning, attack, and set pieces. It’s a very good synchrony, we notice that. So much so that sometimes, at certain moments, it’s the assistants who go to the sidelines and he gives them the freedom for that to happen. It’s very well accepted by us players and very well managed. It doesn’t get in the way.”

“Sometimes I feel there’s a lot of pressure, people want to look for details where there aren’t any. They want to find some situation. There isn’t one. I repeat that. It’s well defined, established, and I personally think that’s good. It’s not just one person talking all day. Even when we do video analysis, they all participate, the whole coaching staff, even Fábio the fitness coach. To put an end to this myth, this detail, the hierarchy issues are very well resolved.”

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