Opinion
João Rosado’s opinion. Roberto Martínez’s secret in the League of Nations is not available to everyone.
Cristiano Ronaldo would not do better. That is, I had already done him the day before, when he remembered those who had been the unfair and misfit criticism of Roberto Martínez.
It was a prolonged Vénia de CR7 to the work of the coach in the league of nations raised with drama and circumstance in Bavaria. The captain, in the background, meant that the great winner of the competition was the Catalan who succeeded Fernando Santos and that in the Arena de Munich survived the “ghost” José Mourinho.
The president of the federation, who for some steps did not sit alongside Fenerbahçe coach during the final with Spain, but managed to go further. In the speech of presentation of the trophy to the employees, in the city of Football, Pedro Proença (PP) licensed to individualize and asked a salary of his mister, stressing that this was the man to whom he should dedicate himself to victory.
After months of complicit silence with the news that created a wave of rumors about a psychological whip surgical in selection A, Proença miraculously tried to touch up the picture, proposing an improvised tribute ahead of the chamber operators and photographic reporters.
It didn’t even miss another hug without a flame, on the line of the grass in the grass in Germany. The president’s effort, it is recognized, was hindered but more worth being quiet and saving himself to an amendment that only reinforced the suspicion that he never disliked speculation regarding the return of Mourinho or Jorge Jesus to Portugal.
If it was not so, the modesty and distance assumed each time it was questioned and the (dis) continuity of the project started at the end of 2022 was fed. If at these times the leader of the federative building was impaired and serene before the threatening flames surrounding the selector’s chair, it would be inadmissible that in a triumphal context there was a fire proof relationship.
The special dedication made this Monday sounded too free, which is still in the case of the possibility, tiny, of the fact that it is effectively believed without reservation in Martínez’s skills. This, being true, could represent a simple and yet serious communicational error (failed the coach’s back when he needed most) if he had chosen such a modesty and the discretion at yesterday’s ceremony in Lisbon.
By being so theatrical and specific in the recognition of the heroes of Munich, that is, to his Hero of Munich, PP took another false step, generating this distrust of the authenticity of words and gesture.
Gave a lot of flag
With the stuffed experience accumulated in football, first as an elite referee and then as the maximum leader of the League, Fernando Gomes’s successor was obliged to realize and anticipate this whole scenario, and a competitor of a reality that had not been witnessing in the intimacy of the national team.
As it was clear from the various manifestations of support for the coach and especially in the behavior of each and all whenever Portugal entered the field, the resort is with Roberto Martínez and makes a familiar feeling that forces a 20 -year trip to unveil something similar.
By retreating two decades, at the time each house looked like the headquarters where the flag of a common dream was raised, the memory of a country surrendered to the logic of command of Luiz Felipe Scolari, based on a media charisma and especially in a leadership that did not give rise to undecided in the usual batch of summoned.
In 2004, when he made his debut in a final of a mega international competition, the working group, as happened now, spoke to one voice and blindly trusted those who chose players and tactics. They shone and cried side by side stars like Ronaldo and Rui Costa, a duo again linked by the lesson taken from Munich’s unforgettable feat in the no less unforgettable June 8th.
Cristiano noticed long months ago that if it weren’t for just one more, it would never be accepted in the cabin and would never win with the corner jersey. By keeping the taboo regarding the reconditeration, in the background Rui Costa is just confirming the renunciation of new suffrage, waiting for the closing of the season and fully conscious that until October only by miracle will taste a sports result that allows it to turn the huge benfiquista “resort”.
It may happen, but it is far from probable the title at the Club World Cup which in the four days begins in the United States. If it is realized, the conductor will have to order a dedication never seen from Bruno Lage. That even Ronaldo and Pedro Proença were able to do better.
