Paulo Autuori aims for world club championship victory
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When you arrived at São Paulo in the last week of April, what was the physical and psychological state of the team?
[photo=autuori.JPG id=130 align=right]Paulo Autuori
Psychologically it was in the best possible state, the club had just won the São Paulo Championship, which always brings high moral confidence and raises self-esteem. The team’s physical state also was also excellent because the training done at São Paulo is always of the highest level quality. It is because of this that the team obtains the good results at the top for a long time.
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What are the work methods that you use to help the team to progress?
Paulo Autuori
Each player has his own method of work and this has to be respected As well as the individuality and the characteristics of each player I only look to take advantage of everything good that exists in the group, and then add a few aspects that I think are important for the team. We are having good results, that’s what it is important to keep the team, psychological in good condition and trying to reach all our objectives for this season.
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How did the loss of Grafite impact the team?
Paulo Autuori
Without a doubt. To lose a player with the importance of the Grafite at a critical moment, which also impacted the Brazilian competition, was far from easy. But the team is a team that fights, it is a diligent group that has the ability to surpass difficulties when they appear and to respond accordingly.
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What is your best memory of your career as coach?
Paulo Autuori
I wait to see what is coming. Clearly I always live for the great moments, but savour past events. Everything in the past, serves to give confidence and encourages me to work, and therefore I wait for many good things in my career to occur.
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Is it easier to be a coach in Brazil or Portugal?
Paulo Autuori
To be coach is difficult in any country. In Europe people have more patience to the work of the coach. In Brazil the time necessary for a coach to show his work is not respected, the amount of games is excessive. We must be an immediate success within a few games. So here is more complicated.
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