Words matter. These are the best Tite Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.
Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.
I try to challenge the players. If they have reached a standard I challenge them to grow even more because you never know.
I would go to a team where I always felt happy – as a person, as a human being and as a family, because there I will be professionally better.
Pele is incomparable.
A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don’t see that as a valid result. For me, there has to be another way.
I’m not dumb enough to call up a bad player.
I spoke with Zidane and he insisted that Casemiro is the player who gives Real Madrid balance. I decided to trust him and make him a starter.
I’m of the school of thought that it is all about pass and move, give and go, playing in triangles, interplay and creativity in the final third.
It’s one thing to throw Rodrygo into a system that’s already structured, like Real’s. It’s another thing to put him in a team that is being reassembled, even if he was doing the same job in the same position.
I don’t have to have opinion about everything. I don’t want to be a showman, to be talking about everything.
Neymar is irreplaceable. Douglas Costa cannot replace him. He will play like Douglas Costa.
I want to evolve and keep evolving.
My job is to prepare the squad.
As time goes by, people grow and mature.
The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.
When we move things from what it’s important, we make mistakes.
Neymar reassures you, because he brings unpredictability to your game. Because he will offer you an individual or collective solution that others cannot, and with him, the potential of a team is not the same, because he will sparkle.
Coaches are overvalued.
I can’t show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.
A team has to be prepared for the various situations in the game.
In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the ’70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.
You have to create possibilities for the finish in the final third of the pitch, I’m not going to take that away from anybody.
In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.
In an individual sport you can always plan your ideal peak, but in a team sport the experience of playing in the qualifiers makes you stronger as a unit.
Having been at big clubs, when you sometimes don’t produce, then don’t expect the fans to understand. They will boo.
The Olympic Games provided players like Neymar, Marquinhos, Gabriel Jesus and Renato Augusto with some really valuable experience and ended up improving the performance of the Brazilian national team.
We must understand the fans, they want to see goals. If I was in their place I’d want the same. It’s understandable.
Neymar, I’m not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch – his genius.
Allan is good in transition, going box to box, leading counter attacks and breaks. He’s mobile and brings protection defensively.
Having recognition is not a sin, growing up is no sin, be star is not a sin, have technical skills is not a sin. To evolve in what is wrong is also a process of maturing.
Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga’s squad.
We don’t need any help – the athletes and the coach don’t want any help to win.
The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.
The coach is a human being and does not demand miracles from human beings. He has the humility to understand that there are other people with different ideas to his own, but he does not have to use those words.
The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.
The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you’re hyper, you try to slow it down; if you’re a bit low, you try to hype it up.
My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.
Coaches are always looking to evolve.
The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.
I do not even know the limit of Neymar. His technical and creative ability is impressive. When we release him in the last third of the field, he’s lethal.
The collective strengthens the individual.
There’s no news on talking about Messi’s talent.
My thing is in the pitch, that’s my concern.
Ancelotti’s teams are more balanced. It’s a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also his discreet profile. I am also like that.
I want to do my best in my daily job.
Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.
Pele is out of normal patterns and I’m not saying this because I’m a Brazilian. You can’t find a defect.
Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires.
Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil.
