On the second day of Christmas, he informed the president of the Polish Football Association that he had decided to leave the Polish national team and accept the Brazilian Flamengo offer. The Portuguese coach achieved his goal and although he will have to pay compensation, he terminated the contract with the Polish association and left the team shortly before the World Cup play-offs.
The saga related to Paulo Sousa was widely commented not only by the Polish and Brazilian media, but also by the Portuguese. The local RTP television interviewed the former selector. In this interview, Sousa explains the reasons for his decision to leave the Polish team. – Poland is a project that has already ended – surprisingly said the Portuguese. Recall – he left the team about three months before the play-offs, which will decide on the promotion to the Qatari World Cup.
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– I have always shown that I am not afraid to make decisions. It was a decision that I made only to be able to train the best club in the world. I am very focused on this extraordinary challenge that lies ahead of me – said Sousa. On the information bar, there was a headline that read “The size of the Flamengo convinced me to leave”.
Paulo Sousa doesn’t think about Poland anymore. And he is proud of his work
In another interview, after landing in Brazil, he stated that he was satisfied with what he had achieved in Poland. – I am very proud of what I was able to do, the changes we made to the pitch and the way we played football. We were one of the teams most goals scored in qualifying for. I am proud to dedicate myself and offer everything we have with honesty and respect. At the moment when I made the decision, I only think about Flamengo, not about the past – assures Sousa, quoted by maisfutebol.iol.pt.
The above words of the Portuguese may shock many Polish fans. There is nothing special among Sousa’s achievements. Of course, there were many positives during his term of office. But in the end, Poland, during the tenure of Paulo Sousa, was eliminated from the group stage and advanced to the play-offs for the World Cup in Qatar. Playoffs, in which she was not seeded, because in the decisive match against Hungary (1: 2) Sousa decided to spare the most important players. The list of teams that Paulo Sousa managed to defeat – Andorra, Albania and San Marino is also not very impressive.
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