Jesualdo Ferreira is a gentleman. A gentleman, as they say in the country of 21st century football. He was the first man to realize that his country, Portugal, had 60% of the national champion coaches coming from elsewhere and something needed to be done about it.
“There are coaches who bring experience from the field to the training and others from the study to the training”, he explains.
He himself was not a professional player. Just like the Italian Arrigo Sacchi, creator of the famous phrase: “You don’t have to be a horse to be a jockey”.
Sacchi won the Champions League twice as coach of the most fabulous Milan in history, and Jesualdo Ferreira won the Portuguese Championship three times, inaugurating an era of 15 seasons without foreign winners in Portugal.
Jesualdo himself led a group of young scholars who frequented the National Institute of Physical Education.
“It’s been 40 years of work”, says the father of the generation of technicians educated in Portugal and spread across the planet.
Jesualdo is one of the 12 examples that it is not enough to be a foreigner to succeed in Brazil.
After the success of Jorge Jesus, they passed and left Serie A without a trace: Miguel Angel RamÃrez, Eduardo Coudet, Diego Aguirre, Antonio Oliveira, Hernán Crespo, Ariel Holan, Sá Pinto, Ramón DÃaz, Diego Dabove, Domenec Torrent, Jorge Sampaoli and Jesualdo. There are still MorÃnigo and Gustavo Florentin, resistant to relegation to Serie B.
Why does Brazil despise work and fire, without distinction, Cariocas, Spaniards, São Paulo, Portuguese, Argentinians, Paraná and Uruguayans?
Jesualdo is a gentleman, a gentleman. He apologizes for giving the answer that only exists because required by the columnist: “It seems to me that the structures of Brazilian football are accommodated”.
Note that he talks about structures, not coaches. “I can’t say that Brazilian coaches lack theory. I haven’t met that many.”
About the structures, it is definitive. Refers to players, coaches, press and officials. For example: “I have been working with Brazilians for 40 years. I heard that the players were not serious. A lie! They are serious. In comfortable structures, when they realize that things are not going well, they know that the coach will leave in six or seven games. And come to know that this is how things are”.
He continues: “The press lives on this news”.
Before our corporatism hits Jesualdo, he doesn’t criticize the press, but the structures. He analyzes what he sees from the outside and what he has lived on the inside. He was fired from Santos after 15 games, when he was leading his group in Libertadores.
Jesualdo Ferreira’s kindness spread over 47 minutes of international call. The phone call had a question. Brazilian technicians lack culture, to the point that we are only looking for foreigners right now?
His answer is more profound: “The structures of Brazilian football are accommodated”.
This includes me who writes and you who reads.
Nobody will compare Jesualdo to Guardiola, Klopp or Thomas Tuchel. But even the Liverpool German has said: “What the Brazilians are doing is very wrong. You can’t have a wonderful performance like that.”
Paulo Sousa is excellent, for the culture of the game that will bring us together, as Abel Ferreira shows in each press conference.
The recipe is not to hire knowledge to despise it three months later. It’s past time to understand and respect the stages of work. As Liverpool do with Jürgen Klopp and Bragantino with MaurÃcio Barbieri.
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