00:00 Here in Brazil, do you feel that the biggest patience of the coaches was missing?
00:04 I'm here in Europe, have you seen this difference?
00:06 Do you think Brazil still needs to have this care in the professional transition?
00:14 I don't say the coaches, I say the fans.
00:20 Because the fans have a big influence in the clubs.
00:24 So from the moment an athlete goes up in the professional base,
00:29 the fans don't understand that it's a process,
00:34 whether they like it or not, more than the player's head.
00:37 Because the player is not used to it, as it happened to me,
00:41 as it happened to several other athletes.
00:44 How much they went up or how much they get, under enormous pressure.
00:48 In Brazil, in fact, in world football, there is pressure.
00:53 But the difference in Brazil is that the people don't have patience.
00:56 They want immediate results. And in football, there is no immediate result.
01:00 In football, it's a process.
01:03 It's one day after the other, it's work, it's adaptation.
01:09 Because everyone looks at the athlete and says "you earn millions".
01:12 But you earn millions because the guy deserves to earn millions.
01:15 So it's all a process, it's all an adaptation, it's all a style.
01:18 There are even athletes who won't be able to adapt to a club.
01:23 How can there be players who will go up from the professional base
01:26 who won't be able to adapt to the team?
01:28 This is normal. This is the process of football.
01:31 This is the grace of football.
01:33 So I think that in Brazil people could have more empathy,
01:39 to understand that it's a process for young boys who are going up.
01:45 It's necessary to have patience, which is what we don't have.
01:49 So I think that's basically it.
01:54 Thiago, this would be our next topic,
01:58 going more into the Cruzeiro.
02:02 You said, as you highlighted, the patience of the fans.
02:06 You were launched in the middle of a very turbulent moment for Cruzeiro,
02:09 which was the first year of Cruzeiro in the B-Series, in 2020.
02:13 Many fans, as you said, had no patience with these young players.
02:16 The coaches who went through Cruzeiro launched many young players on the team,
02:20 took risks, bet on them, and the fans were impatient.
02:24 The result sometimes didn't come quickly,
02:26 as you said, a process and everything.
02:29 Do you think this was the right time to launch these young players,
02:32 including you, or was there a "stage burn", so to speak?
02:38 So, man, I can't say it was a "stage burn",
02:43 but I think that at the time of the club, there was nothing to do.
02:48 You know?
02:50 At the time Cruzeiro was going through,
02:52 it was either to launch the young players or not to have a player.
02:55 You know?
02:56 So, I'm very grateful to Cruzeiro.
03:00 I would be eternally grateful, because it was a great club that opened the door for me,
03:04 and gave me the first opportunity to play in the professional.
03:07 And, man, I think it had to happen.
03:12 You know? It had to happen that way.
03:14 It had to be that way, because maybe if Cruzeiro hadn't fallen,
03:20 maybe I wouldn't have had the opportunity to play in the professional.
03:23 I might not have had the opportunity to represent Cruzeiro's jersey in the professional.
03:29 So, maybe that was...
03:33 It was meant to be, you know?
03:35 That way, that way, the way it was.
03:38 So...
03:40 I don't think it burned the stage.
03:42 I think it was necessary, you know?
03:45 Both me and the other athletes who passed, I think it was necessary.
03:50 [BEEP]
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