″We were Portugal″. a story of overcoming
And when everything was impossible… behold, the Portuguese made another “miracle”! The way in which the national futsal team turned around the result in the game against Russia, and was crowned twice champion, is a good and great lesson in overcoming. shook a lot at the beginning of the game, at the beginning but he never gave up and came back on Sunday, Portugal.
The duel began smoothly, as if each team was studying the behavior of the other on the field. Russia took the field and, at ten minutes, the first bucket of cold water arrived. The national coach, Jorge Braz, remained calm, but redesigned the plan. Soon after, another Russian goal, another bucket of ice water. Portugal won, but the team did not give up, much less the coach.
Zicky Té, a player and himself a lesson from Tiago in overcoming, began to threaten the goal of the accessory, despite having been the one who thrashed. Trust grew. In the second part, another threat from Zicky Té, new suffering, and André Coelho scored. The selection managed to recover from a sufficient amount of two goals, but it still wasn’t. It was necessary to “eat the grass”, as they say in eleven-a-side football slang. Another goal from André Coelho and a new boost of confidence.
Braz, always calm and cerebral, warns of the importance of managing the game until the last second. To give up? Lower your arms? Lose control? Never! Hope it would just be the last not to make second that Pany Varela would go 4-2. On the stands, Portuguese fans display a curious poster: “Bagaço > Vodka”.
What led us all to this success? Quite simply, Braz replied: “We were Portugaltsal, very proud of ours. We were happy every day. It was fantastic.” “We were Portugal” earned us a turnaround and a European title. It’s no small thing. It’s the difference between crying and smiling, between losing and winning. This is what we all need to be more recurrent in Portugal, although sometimes they are more difficult to overcome, even when they are stronger, with more muscles and with more resources or when the walls seem insurmountable.
“Futsal can be inspiring for the whole country”, said yesterday the President of the Republic, who received the players in Belém and praised the coach Jorge Braz and the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, Fernando Gomes. And further he said: “To be very Portuguese is to be heroic in crucial moments.”
At the same time and taking advantage of the symbolism of the consecration of the players at the Palácio de Belém, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took the moment for a political message and warns that the PRR (Recovery and Resilience Plan) is not “paradise around the corner”. “Either we lose. We don’t win here.” A warning that has already left the new absolute majority.