Tite Quotes

Tite

Profession : Coach

Birth : May 25, 1961

I don't have that intuition, of changing a defender for a midfielder, for example. I'm incompetent on that matter, to put a player on the pitch and hope that he magically finds a solution.

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Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid. We must find a middle ground.

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We don't need referees in order to win the game; we just want it to be fair. You should look at all of the plays and then make a decision.

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We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

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I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.

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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.

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Neymar is essential, but not irreplaceable.

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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.

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Football is a transformation agent, both for good and for bad.

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Coaches are overvalued.

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I would like to live in the country that wins less, but has more stability. Brazilian coaches remain, on average, in a job for three months.

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The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.

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The players are the essence of the game. It is their creativity, the technical capacity of the player - the players have to be free to explore their individual creativity in the last third of the field, the team able to attack with six players, without concern for the defence.

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My job is to prepare the squad.

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I want to do my best in my daily job.

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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.

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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.

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Neymar is irreplaceable. Douglas Costa cannot replace him. He will play like Douglas Costa.

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I demand Casemiro play the same role he plays at his club, Real Madrid.

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Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga's squad.

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