The 2002 World Cup champion, Edmílsonsaid he doesn’t like comparing generations of the Brazilian team.
No program CNN Esportes S/A This Sunday (10), the former player pointed out the main changes in football that influenced the team with the most World Cup titles.
I think the dynamics of the football market have changed, and I don’t like to make too many comparisons between teams, generations and moments. Today the Brazilian football market is different from 30 years ago. In the past, the guy had to show it at his club here, first he dreamed of playing for the club in the capital where he lived and then he thought about playing for the Brazilian team and then he thought about playing abroad. Today the clubs, the boy leaves here, he barely plays a season in the team he formed and goes straight to Europe.
Edmílson pointed out Brazil’s main difficulty in recent years, which according to him, is the lack of identity. The former defender and midfielder too.
We have talented players, I think we have something of an identity that we need to get back to. Brazil has an identity of having improvisational, creative, one-on-one players and during this period everyone wanted to adapt, for example, like Guardiola style, possession of the ball, construction game, but Brazil always had a construction game.
He also commented on the new era in football: “players who become a company”. Edmílson and said that the athletes are “shielded and inaccessible”.
Then the football mechanism changed and as the player changed he became more shielded and inaccessible. Because today there is a social network, today each player is a company that has several advisors. In addition to being an agent, he has several other businesses outside of playing football. Sometimes he makes more money from advertising and social media than from his salary.
CNN Esportes S/A
With Edmílson, a former player, the CNN Esportes S/A reaches its 137th edition. Presented by João Vitor Xavier, the program goes behind the scenes of a market that moves billions and is one of the most profitable in the world: sport.
On the agenda, the hottest topics in the football world industry, from the perspective of economics and business.
