Sao Paulo was tense on December 13, 1992. Winning the Club World Cup had never been such a concrete possibility for the São Paulo team, but at the same time it seemed like a distant dream. His opponent, the Almighty Barcelona, was a favorite Franco.
As a captain and bigger star of the team, he felt that he needed to do something. Before the game, he gathered his companions and gave a brief motivational lecture. After the judge whistled, he turned the words into action just four minutes into the first half.
“When I felt this tension, the first play I made was a Keit hat in Guardiola,” Raí recalls. “It was something on purpose,” says the tricolor idol in his course at Casafolha, available at Casafolhasp.com.br.
It matters little that he lost the ball right after his hat in the young promise of the Spanish national team; Its goal was to help the team relax. “I think it broke the ice,” he says.
Eight minutes later, Barcelona opened the scoring, and once again it was up to the leader to hold the ball and tell her companions that there was no reason to despair. And there was not, because Raí scored two goals and gave the unprecedented title to Sao Paulo.
Raí was then 27 years old and had already become accustomed to the captain’s armband, with all the weight of its meaning. But, as he reveals in CasaFolha, it was not always like that. “My leadership experience has surprised me,” he says on the streaming platform launched by Sheet last year.
Born in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of São Paulo, Raí began to play for Botafogo, one of the teams of the city. Always shy, closed, it took a long time to feel comfortable; taking the protagonism within the group barely passed through his head. But a situation of injustice has changed it.
Although he had salary to several players, Botafogo announced some important signings, as if it were something good for the team. Raí, then 20, asked for the word and protested. “It was stronger than me. And then I gained the respect of others,” he recalls.
Today, with the experience of who was captain of Botafogo, São Paulo, Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazilian National Team, the star looks back and shares many of the lessons he has learned throughout his career.
Its course, called “athlete mentality: from sport to life”, is one of 20 that the streaming platform offers, with great personalities from different areas of knowledge.
Also on the team of CasaFolha names such as writer Itamar Vieira Junior, who teaches creative writing, filmmaker José Padilha, who talks about the art of storytelling, and former Minister Pedro Malan, who explains how to analyze the economy.
In addition, new content is included every month. On April 10, for example, he debuted the course of Aline Wolff, a psychologist at Gymnast Rebeca Andrade, with classes on emotional balance; On the 29th, it will be the turn of Helena Rizzo, who was already elected the best chef woman in the world, with tips on haute cuisine to use at home.
Like Raí, everyone uses their successful trajectories as a starting point for the lessons. In the case of the star, for example, living in different teams has led him to realize not only that there are several leadership styles, but also that victorious teams often have several leaders acting at the same time.
In a typology of the leader, Raí quotes Socrates, his brother, as an example of natural vocation for the function; Dunga is the guy who charges, is on top; Toninho Cerezo is one who gains ancestry for experience.
“There are a lot of people, in all areas, who says, ‘I have never had leadership profile.’ But if you accumulate an experience, some security, give up it [da liderança] It’s a gigantic waste for the institution you are involved in and for you personally, “says the former player.
“There is no formula, this is the style of leadership. Especially because I lived with several, and myself, who did not believe I was a leader, showed that it can work too,” he says.
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