José João, FC Porto Under-17s coach: “We want to start winning” | OneFootball

With a "good pre-season" concluded - in which the most relevant was "creating a strong identity" in a group of athletes who already understand "what the FC Porto culture is" - the time has come to take the field to face Vitória SC (Saturday, 11:00 am) and "show what has been done in the last six weeks". "We want to start winning very much", emphasizes José João, with the ambition of "being Porto every day" and the purpose of "training players so that they can be better and be prepared for higher levels that FC Porto needs". In tune with the coach, midfielder João Brito assures that the Portistas are "ready for a great season": "We are all working at the maximum, every day, so that we can be together and be a family".

The pre-season“The team is fine, we had a good pre-season. For us, it was important, above all, to create a strong identity with the team. The team understands very well what the FC Porto culture is so that we can have a sustained longevity in the season. We started giving the team what we have as principles, values, and playing style. Of course, not everything is acquired, not everything is cemented, but we are already prepared for the start of the championship.”

Growth as the main focus“We are concerned with growing as a team, as a group, and we want the players to assimilate well what we want for the team. We are in the initial phase and we will certainly have time to be at our best level.”

The opponent“Playing in Guimarães is always difficult, it's an opponent with a lot of quality, has good players, but our focus is essentially on us. At FC Porto, we want to win very much, we want to start winning. We are anxious in the good sense because we have been working for six weeks and have not played any official games. We have a great desire to enter the field and show what we have done in these six weeks, to show our fans, the people who follow us, what is really our value. We will have a complicated opponent ahead, has some particularities, it's a difficult field because it's a field with special dimensions, with synthetic, but we will turn it around, we will be Porto. We have to be Porto every day.”

The team above all“Yes, it's logical that I want to make my debut, but the most important thing is never the coach. The most important thing is the players, it's us feeling that there are many people working every day so that these players can be better and be prepared for higher levels that FC Porto needs at the moment. That is always our biggest goal. The coach will never be the most important piece for FC Porto, so we feel that we are on the right path, that the players are understanding and understanding what we want. Now it's just a matter of continuing and, I repeat, bringing the three points from Guimarães.”

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