Faced with the controversy arising from the decision to enlist the services of an almost forty-year-old in defense of the Brazil team for the Qatari World Cup, the Brazilian coach Tite wished to clarify his position on the subject at a press conference.
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Daniel Alves' criteria are the same criteria for everyone," he explained, who communicated a list of 26 players on Tuesday.
They reward the individual technical quality, the physical aspect and the mental aspect.
Just like other players.
Some with one or the other quality in addition.
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After which Tite went into more detail.
"As Brazil plays with wingers, our full-backs will not play on the wing," said the Seleçao coach.
They will not be attacking full-backs.
We will have full-backs who will participate in the construction of the game. And the technical quality that Daniel Alves brings to the team in this respect is impressive.
He has the technical quality to participate in the construction, to be a playmaker. He will not be a player who will do 70 meters forward, 70 meters behind..."
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Summoned to justify himself to the Brazilian press and social networks, which were rather unfavorable to the choice of the Pumas UNAM de Mexico player, Tite, facing the microphone and cameras, went there with his “not politically correct” verse: “I am not not come here to please people who are on Twitter, on social networks, who express themselves there.
It's an audience of which I don't know what percentage of the Brazilian people it represents.
I respect differing opinions.
I'm not here to convince everyone.
I do not have this claim.
I do not want it.
I just want to bring informative, truthful data, so people can do their own analysis and form their own opinion.
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