he parted with the Polish national team at the end of December, but his character still arouses great emotions. In Brazil, it is also difficult to pass by the Portuguese indifferently. Sousa started his adventure with Flamengo with a 3-0 win over Boavista. In the second match, he faced the hit match against Fluminense, but his team lost 0-1. And that was after the goal in the 89th minute. . In the third game under Sousa Flamengo defeated Audax Rio 2: 1. But despite the three points, the atmosphere in the stands was quite dense. The Portuguese was beaten up.
– Paulo Sousa has been leading Flamengo for three games (!!!) and there are already a lot of Flamengo fans who boo at him and call him an idiot. Brazilian fan culture is brutal when you’re a coach, journalist Zach Lowy wrote on Twitter.
During the second half of the game, the fans didn’t like the game and they started to whistle loudly at Sousa. The more so that the Portuguese surprised with the starting line-up (he bet on only one nominal defender in the line-up) and after the break he had to save as many as five changes. It is true that Sousa explained before the match that he would experiment in the near future and would give the substitutes a chance, but this did not excuse him in the eyes of the fans. They were especially loud in the 87th minute when he was making his fifth shift. Sousa also heard the shouts of “donkey, donkey”
– What can I say? The fans are very lively. When we win, they idolize you and put you on a pedestal. But sometimes they criticize you. It is part of our everyday life. The fans are always right because they come to the stadium and want to watch you. Their passion guides them through life. Thanks to them, this passion is today and it will be tomorrow – said Sousa in his own style.
And he added: – The team knows what I expect from it. Most of all, I want us to dominate and often have the ball. At some points in this game it was difficult for us, but in the second half we could even score third and fourth gates. We must be able to document our advantage in the future, he concluded.
It is worth noting that not only the fans criticized Sousa. Recently, a well-known Brazilian journalist spoke negatively about the Portuguese. .
Flamnego is in fourth place after five rounds of Campeonato Carioca. The next game is scheduled for Sunday when Flamengo will face the last club – Nova Iguacu.
Sousa, meaning a deserter and “gray bajerant”
In December 2021, Paulo Sousa unexpectedly asked the PZPN authorities to terminate the contract amicably, because he got along with Flamengo. The departure in this style was a perfect summary of the entire stage of Sousa’s work in Poland, during which the team presented itself in a bad style at Euro 2020, it stupidly lost its seeding in the World Cup play-offs in Qatar and defeated only three teams for a year – Albania, Andorra and San Marino.
Sousa talked about football beautifully, but it turned out to be just empty words.
Source: Sport
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