Ambassador of Portugal critic Fernando Santos and son of the coach responds
In a text published on social networks, the Portuguese ambassador to Japan, Vítor Sereno, criticized Fernando Santos after the elimination of the Portuguese national team in the 2022 World Cup. Luís Santos, son of the coach, responded to the comment.
Portugal’s ambassador to Japan, Vítor Sereno, criticized Fernando Santos, Portuguese coach, and received a response from Luís Santos, son of the 68-year-old coach. In a publication made on the LinkedIn social network, the Portuguese representative in the Japanese country considered that the “Engineer” did not know how to leave the corner teams at the right time.
“A coach who didn’t know how to come out on top when he had everything to do. As European champion and winner of the I League of Nations he would go down in history forever. , he will come out on the bottom, hostage to his tactical inability, fear, inconsistency, but above all his smallness. The FPF’s insistence on Fernando Santos is sick and vice versa. Clinging to the position and not immediately making the position available (just look at Luís Enrique, Tite or Roberto Martínez) is symptomatic. The ability to put ourselves down is our worst trait. The only one, so far, that I’ve seen trying to change the paradigm of this state of constant depression, alternating with states of euphoria, was Cristiano Ronaldo. Portugal’s best ambassador (I know them all: he’s second to none) and the only one who was never ashamed to assume that we, the Portuguese, can reach the top of the world when we want to. Cristiano is much more than Portugal and, deep down, that annoys us. It’s easier to level ourselves by mediocrity than excellence – I had an older colleague, many years ago, who told me not to work so hard because it forced others to do the same or better”, he indicated.
Luís Santos, son of Fernando Santos, replied: “Mr. Ambassador is entitled to his opinion. But writing publicly and gratuitously about the “littleness” of someone who gave so much to his homeland, may not be worthy of the position he occupies. understand what you think was the added value of the paragraph in question (worthy of CMTV). a lot of work to be done in the Portugal-Japan relationship. We are counting on you to carry it out with as much effort and competence as our Selection, which took us to the final of the World Cup, for the third time in its history, and landed on its feet. in particular, as much effort and competence as the selector of the “smallness” (his words) of the only two trophies in the footballing history of the nation. Lack of gratitude. “