He left Sporting’s “disenchanted”, but is now a deputy coach of a team from the main US women’s soccer league. On the other side of the ocean, Mariana Cabral found abishable differences even in the simplest things of everyday sport, having stopped “doing a lot with little.”
Mariana Cabral, 37, left Portugal a few months ago towards the United States of America, where he is a deputy coach of the a club that militates na a “Best women’s soccer league in the world”But it will be the Portuguese living the“ American dream ”? The answer to this question in this week.
When it left Sporting, in October 2024, the technique it received various offers from several countries, but chose to accept Utah’s challenge Royals FCwhich allowed him to dispute what he considers to be the best women’s soccer league on the globe. “I’m extremely happy, fhi a great decision”, assume.
The coach highlights the competitiveness of the championship where he is insertedbut also the many resources you have at your disposal:
“Being in Portugal we have to do a lot with little, with few resources, often. The amount of resources I have here is unimaginablein Portugal there is no comparison. We have more money, more material, more infrastructure, more everything. ”
Another difference that points is the “active voice” of US athletes, that “They give an opinion on practically everything” and struggle “for the rights of players and for better working conditions. ”
“We have some players who are in the American team and when they play for the national team, only one game, there are eight thousand dollars. If you win the game, it’s $ 10,000. We are talking about any game, ”he explains.
Sporting’s exit: “We didn’t share the same ideas ”
Mariana Cabral also explains the reason that made her Even after winning the Super Cup against Benfica.
“Things did not go the way I understood that they could run and, therefore, I thought it would be the best for me, also for the club e For the playersthat there was another way. We didn’t share the same ideas, ”he reveals.
UTAH’s assistant coach is still regretting that, at the time she guided Sporting, she had to “ask for things”Which he considers normal, namely“ working and training conditions ”. ter of Being every day fighting for something ”adds.
“The coach, nMen’s footballyou don’t have to be asking everyday to train in a lawn and not in a synthetic. No You have to complain because you are training with 15 balls and all different from each other, ”he says.
For these reasons it assumes to have left Sporting “disenchanted” and is unhappy with the fact that women’s football in Portugal is to grow the “a very slow pace”.
About life in the United States, states that the “great shock” it had was in relation to the large dimensions of supermarkets, as well as the large supply of products, and the indiscriminate use of plastic in everyday.
