Pedro Cary. Portugal “will not always win”, but “has the future assured”
Pedro Cary, European futsal champion in 2018, currently at Leões de Porto Salvo, believed that winning the third consecutive title can “create the illusion” that Portugal will always win, something that will not happen. Still, the “identity” of the selection will not fall.
“For those on the outside, it can create the illusion that we will always win, but I believe that identity will not fall. Union, family. Will we always win? No, but winning and we are going to be in finals, before we passed groups and lost in the quarters or in the socks”, he explains, in an interview with White ball.
The Portuguese international reveals that he feels this achievement “almost as if he was also present”, for the years he was in the service of the national team. Watching the forum competition is a “quite different” experience, which Pedro Cary lived “in a special way”.
On the future of the futsal team, he believes that “we are assured” and that there are still more young players to join. Cary, work that has been done by the Federation and that remembers, even if some objective was not thought to be done, which could not have been done.
“This is the message that has been conveyed: believe in the process, believe in the way it was developed. The results are a consequence of the good we do”, he reinforces.
Advice for Zicky
Pedro Cary’s last year at Sporting’s service coincided with Zicky Té’s first senior season with the Lions. The winger, now 37 years old, saw many young players in the first team and moments when, through experience, they helped the new athletes.
In this interview with RenaissanceCary gave Zicky the same advice he gave Erick Mendonça when he arrived at the Lions and this season in the Champions League in the first: “”, because I need “one day he gets lost and he was prepared to turn around”.
“When Erick arrived at Sporting we were European champions and I told him the same thing”, he explains.
“Zicky, ever since he was a senior, only knows what it’s like to win. This is good, but the sport is not only that, it is also lost. The advice I give you is: savor it, but knowing that in the life of an athlete there is always a tomorrow and failure is behind the door. He’s at a club that realizes that and I hope he’s aware of that, one day he’s going to lose and he has to be prepared to turn it around,” he adds.
Pedro Cary recalled that the young pivot, considered the best player in Europe, “was always a kid who was hardworking” and who, as he says, “responds with work”. He recalls a “very quiet” and “introverted” young man, but who asserted himself with the support of the group and became “an incredible player”.
“At 20 years old, having the preponderance he has in Sporting and in the national team is incredible. We have to congratulate Sporting, but especially Zicky himself”, he says.
Pedro Cary represented the national team in 159 games, scoring 39 goals and winning Euro 2018. He was present in five European Championships and three World Cups.
Currently at the service of the Lions Champions, Porto Salvo2010, the Champions represented Sporting2010 and five championships where there was a League of, six championships, six cups of Portugal, a League of Cup five and a Cup.