Libertadores champion with ATLETICO-MG in 2013, former midfielder Gilberto Silva follows the shifts that Brazilian football suffers in recent years-especially in the club that revealed it to the national scene.
In an interview with CNN SPORTS S/A.In 2002, the five world champion spoke about the development of the rooster in recent decades and has analyzed the implementation of football companies (SAFS) in the country.
“Since then, there has been a lot of change. It is a ridiculous growth that the club has had during the past 25 years. It is satisfactory, for those who have followed all this, for those who played in the club and for those who participate in this development, see this growth, see where the club was previously and how it is today.” ATLETICO-MGIt is still in the nineties.
For the previous player, the Minas Gerais club’s quality leap is not limited to the field. It also highlights the professionalism of management and progress in infrastructure as points, according to him, placing the rooster on a new level.
He said: “In addition to the sport show, the club has a commercial vision. So when I see all this structure, all that happened in recent years in terms of the club, ATLETICO-MG offers on the sports side, but also on the commercial aspect of football.”
Gilberto, who had a victorious corridor through Arsenal, compared the current situation of the great European mining team.
“I know ATLETICO-MG Today, Brazil is left with all the structure you enjoy, and it goes to Europe, and is considered one of the largest clubs in terms of European football structure and the world. But although here, we can put ATLETICO-MG in a very distinct state in the world of football. “
Safs and the new Brazilian football moment
With a look at the recent changes in the Brazilian club management model, Gilberto commented on the SAFS effect on the country.
For him, the approval of coordination by some clubs was positive, but it required care. “I think the current SAF model has started to convert Brazilian football. I think we have a first wave, where ATLETICO-MG SAF became “And I think it is fair to the way it happened,” he started.
Highlights PotafogoThe current Brazilian and Brazilian champion, as an example of success in the new structure.
“I think Botafogo is a structure, and it became SAF, is the current Brazilian hero, a hero Editors (…) I think Botafogo began to reap the results and create more and more. “
Despite success in some clubs, Gilberto Warning of situations that serve as a lesson.
He said: “We also had some other situations that make the other teams begin to be more cautious, like Vasco. Vasco had spent a first moment, as it was in the first front. This is where the question is, to save the team. I now think that the clubs are more cautious, they only want to do it because they need money – this is important.”
More than a financial decision, the former midfielder believes that SAF will become a strategic choice, given the club’s future and identity. “It is important because institutions are important within Brazilian football, within the society that is included. Therefore, all this care is important to you to understand who will be your partner, or if you really need this partner.”
About the future, the former midfielder reflects: “Some clubs may become self -sufficient, and there will be a time when the clubs will speak like this:” O shouted, I don’t need that. I can, even with the possibility to become SAF. I want to continue in my traditional style and follow a happy life the way they can do. “
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