Last month when visiting Brazil, the manager Rogerio de Oliveira met three of his old friends from the old times. Kickersfutsal.com interwies the manager about the trip and what did he learn with Marcos Sorato and Antonio de Azevedo, both known as Pipoca and Zego in the Futsal world. Pipoca is the Brazilian National Assistant coach and aslo, Coach of the under21 and women Brazilian National teams. Zego played for Brazil in the 80`s, is the creator of the 4x0 system used for the whole Futsal world and had worked in more than 25 countries developing Futsal.

 

 

What was the purpose of the trip to Criciuma?

 Pipoca invited me to Criciuma to see the new futsal project. And I also wanted to learn with them and get more experience.

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 And what is it?

Is a new futsal club where just under 20 boys are playing The goal is to become a strong an recognized club in two years to get a place in the Liga Futsal. The team is formed just for young boys and have reached good results last year.

The next step is set up academies.

 

What did you see there?

I’ve seen how a professional team is training and learn some new ideas about tactics and player development. Also we set a partnership with the club to send players or coaches who are interested to stay there for a while to learn with them.

They have a good structure offered by the council and two of the best coaches in the world. You can refuse the offer.

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Tell us about the development program they are using?

Zego is doing a fantastic job with a women team. Zego is the best coach in the world to develop a player. He has his own method and is unbelievable what he can do to help a player. Also he is the pioneer again to use the 4x0 system with girls. They are playing the National league and even with some good proposals of richer clubs the girls decided to stay with Zego. This is the thing we don’t see any more in Futsal.

 

How much did you learn?

In just three days there, I’ve learnt the new ideas of futsal and how some of the best coaches in the world prepare their players. The only issue we have to do this here is the time. There, they train twice a day, 5 days a week.

I want to take them here to deliver a futsal course. I believe everyone would benefit with these two futsal legends.

 

Have you met another old friend there as well?

Yes, I’ve seen my old captain. Adriano Albano. A wonderful player and a good friend now. He is considering returning to UK, but we are in the first stages of the negotiations.

 

    

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