Zagallo conta como foi a festa em que recebeu o diploma de melhor técnico do mundo em 97 A FESTA DE UM VENCEDOR PARTY FOR A WINNER
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E o sucesso é o resultado de um conjunto de fatores. Repito: ninguém ganha
nada sozinho. Eu quis mostrar para todos que estavam presentes que o meu nome estava
ali representando um país e que eu tinha de agradecer a todos os que colaboraram com a
minha vida esportiva... Quando me chamaram para receber o troféu, que é uma bola muito bonita e que tem a inscrição World Cup 98, eu aproveitei para agradecer as palavras do Clemente e com a minha franqueza, discordei dele, dizendo que o Brasil , respeitava as seleções européias, mas estava preparado para ser penta."
E tem mais: é bom ser homenageado por um país que não é qualquer um, é a Alemanha, cuja tradição em copas do mundo é respeitável. Os alemães são tricampeões e estão sempre chegando junto. Indicar um treinador sul-americano, então nem se fala. A segunda colocação foi do Clemente, da Espanha, e a terceira do Glen Hoddle da Inglaterra. ".... A festa estava repleta de gente famosa, entre eles o grande jogador húngaro Puskas. Ele está mais gordo, anda pelos 70 anos de idade e voltou a viver na Hungria No dia seguinte à festa, fomos convidados, eu e o Puskas, para ir a cidade de Fulda, quase setenta quilômetros distante e que é uma cidade maior, com 60.000 habitantes. Fomos homenageados pelo alcaide.Estivemos no Palácio, nos prestaram uma homenagem, com um almoço todo requintado. Atenção, Areosa, não precisei pagar nada... Mas não sou pão-duro, não. Era uma festa. Foi um ambiente de muita cordialidade. O Puskas com a mulher dele e eu com a Alcina, minha eterna companheira de todas as horas. Tivemos também uma entrevista com a imprensa de Fulda À noite, tivemos um reunião em Rotemburgo com treinadores locais, e entre outras coisas, perguntaram ao Puskas quando ele havia começado a jogar futebol. Ele respondeu que aos 9 meses, assim que nasceu. E quando me fizeram a mesma pergunta, disse de gozação: "foi aos sete meses, quando dei os primeiros chutes dentro da barriga da minha mãe". Foi maravilhoso esse contato meu e da Alcina com o Puskas e a dona Elizabete, mulher
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english version "It was really beautiful. I thank the indication of my name a lot and having been considered the best of the world. This event, coming of Europe, for my sporting life it was very important. When they asked me what did to arrive where I arrived, I left clear that didn't expire alone. The success is never alone of a person. I, as player, always worked for the team, and as trainer, I always went a team man. I remembered with emotion those that played to my side and of those that worked with me, the technical commission of 70 and the one of 94, physical coaches, supervisors, doctors, players, in end all those that contributed to my success. It is the success it is the result of a group of factors. I repeat: nobody wins alone. I wanted to show for everybody that were present, that my name was there representing a country and that I had to thank to all the people that collaborated with my sporting life... "... In the interviews that happened, they consider the Brazilian team as the big favorite, for the cup of the world. Clemente, coach of the spanish team, that was the placed second, when interviewee, he eulogized me a lot, but it prophesied that the cup of the world would stay in Europe. When they called me to receive the trophy, that is a very pretty ball with the inscription World Cup 98, I took advantage of to thank Clemente's words and with my frankness, I disagreed of him, saying that Brazil, respected the European selections, but it was prepared to be champion again ". "... That party was accomplished in Rottemburg and it had the same dimension of the other party that was being accomplished in Paris by the FIFA. And there is something else: it is good to be homage by a country that is not anyone, it is Germany, whose tradition in cups of the world is respectable. The Germans are three time champions and they are always arriving closer of the title. To indicate a South American trainer, then nor it is spoken. The second placement belonged to Clemente, of Spain, and the third of Glen Hoddle of England. ".... The party was replete of famous people, among them the great Hungarian player Puskas. He is fatter, he is about 70 years old and he is living in Hungary again The following day to the party, we were invited, me and Puskas, to go the city of Fulda, almost distant seventy kilometers ( 40 miles) and that it is a larger city, with 60.000 inhabitants. We were honoured for mayor. We were in the Palace, they rendered us a homage, with an all perfected lunch. Attention, Areosa, I didn't need to pay anything.. It was an atmosphere of a lot of cordiality. Puskas with his wife and me with Alcina. We also had an interview with the press of Fulda At night, we had a meeting in Rotemburgo with local trainers, and among other things, they asked Puskas when he had begun to play soccer. He answered that to the 9 months, as soon as he was born. And when they asked me the same question, I answered with a joke: it " went to the seven months, when I gave my first kicks inside of my mother's uterus". It was wonderful that contact with Puskas and Elizabete, his wife. I am very proud of all this ". ZAGALLO [Zagallo interview] [index] [home]
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