1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 10th In an exclusive interview with Football newspaper, Guoan striker Fabio said that the Chinese team lacked a button to open the door from the World Cup.
The Guoan team changed its head coach this year. What do you think the team has changed after the coach change? Are you now fully adapting to Setien’s tactics?
In the early stages of the league, everyone was still working with the head coach, so some games were not very smooth. It can be said that it was the most uncomfortable at that time, and everyone was adapting to new coaches and new tactics. The head coach also needs to adapt to the new environment, and he must be familiar with every strange player and unfamiliar opponent. However, as the team’s performance improves, the changes brought to the team by the head coach gradually emerge, and the results are the biggest change.
How do you spend the most difficult times?
All cooperation is based on the premise of mutual trust. As players, we must trust the head coach unconditionally. He is a very responsible, experienced and capable head coach. He knows what to do when he comes here. As players, we just need to hand over ourselves to him and let him use us boldly. At the same time, I also hope that the fans and the club management must firmly support the head coach and support him without reservation. I believe that he will lead us to achieve good results.
When you mention the coach, you have to mention your next match opponent Changchun Yatai, because there is Suarez, the former head coach of Guoan team. I know you have a deep relationship. Have you had any contact recently?
To me, this game has special significance. Because Suarez is my football godfather. We had a communication before he returned to China and decided to serve as the head coach of Changchun Yatai team, and I knew he was going to come back. In the next game, I hope that Beijing fans can give Suarez a lot of applause and welcome him to return to Workers’ Sports again. Beijing is also the city he once loved very much, and Guoan is also the team he loved very much.
Have you ever communicated with Suarez about the goal of this game?
I have already expressed my attitude to him, andWe are opponents. I told him: Master taught the students, and the scene of students defeating the teachers will be staged. The football field is the battlefield, I must help Guoan team win, and we will never allow accidents at home.
Beijing Guoan currently has 7 international players. Is this the confidence of the team to compete for the league championship?
The 7 internationals show that our players are very capable. It is definitely not easy for a team to have 7 internationals. Of course, it’s not just them 7. Yang Liyu also has the strength of a national team. I hope Bai Yang will have the opportunity to go to the national team to prove himself. Ngadeu and Spayic are also national team players. Actually, so is me, but I no longer contact the Angola national team now. With so many high-level players together, it will definitely be helpful for us to achieve good results, but we must have a more tacit understanding and trust each other and win every game.
This year your team has naturalized players like Serginho. Do you have more private communication? Do you usually watch the Chinese team’s games? How do you view the difficulties of the Chinese team in the World Cup?
I have some communication with Serginho, but our views are just communication between individuals. Although I don’t know much about the Chinese team, I watch every game of the Chinese team because I like this country. The Chinese team has many powerful players. The Chinese team lacks a button to open this door until they enter the World Cup. The Chinese team may not have found this button yet, but I believe that the Chinese team will find it sooner or later. I also believe that as long as the Chinese team can enter the World Cup again, they will become a regular visitor to the World Cup in the future.
Which players do you communicate with more in the team? Can any players in Guoan go to Europe?
I have a very good relationship with every player. I am the team’s pistachio. Whether it’s going to the locker room, the cafeteria or the gym, they know that Fabio is coming from a long distance. Some people may like to communicate, and some people need me to force him to speak. For example, Lin Liangming, I kept telling him to talk more. I think he has the ability to go to Europe, he is the kind of character who is cruel and talks little.
You often watch CBA games on site. Is basketball your hobby? Are you playing well?
Besides football, basketball is my favorite sport. There is a basketball court in the community where I live in Beijing, where I often play basketball. When the team is resting, I will practice 20 minutes of shooting on the basketball court. During holidays, if there are two TVs here, I will play football games and basketball at the same timeSometimes I will turn off football games.
How are you learning Chinese now?
I don’t speak Chinese well (in Chinese), but it will be very good in the future. Now my two children have started speaking Chinese. My little daughter often tells me in Chinese: What are you doing? What are you doing? I couldn’t understand what the meaning was, and later I realized that this was learned by her and her Chinese aunt at home.
How did you get on the road of football?
I was born in Portugal and came to England at the age of 6. At that time, I played football with my children. Because my English is not very good, they asked me to guard the door. But later I saw that I often started dribbling the ball from the goalkeeper position and kept taking the ball to the frontcourt before scoring in, so they said, “Don’t guard the goal, you go and play for the forward. In this way, I slowly embarked on the road of football.” Football brings me too many things. Without football, I would not have come to China, let alone know so many friendly Chinese friends. So, I want to keep my best performance in China and in Beijing.
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