Final between sides that have 'recovered their international prestige' - Flamengo boss
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Final between sides that have 'recovered their international prestige' - Flamengo boss
- Title: Final between sides that have 'recovered their international prestige' - Flamengo boss
- Date: 20th December 2019
- Summary: DOHA, QATAR (DECEMBER 20, 2019) (REUTERS) PRIOR TO NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) FLAMENGO COACH, JORGE JESUS, SAYING: "In recent years, Liverpool's story has been one of re-claiming its prestige as a great team from Europe and the world. In my opinion, going three or four years back, the club has been through a process of recovery." PHOTOGRAPHER (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) FLAMENGO COACH, JORGE JESUS, SAYING: "A comparison can be made with Flamengo (and Liverpool). Flamengo is doing fantastically well in the sports arena, with the wins we have had and to reach the world final. In this case, I think we have two teams that are similar in having recovered their international prestige, Flamengo and Liverpool. Now, to give these two teams a level, as (Flamengo player) Bruno Henrique (Pinto) has said, they are two teams seeking to pip each other at the post. Tomorrow we will see who comes out on top." NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) FLAMENGO COACH, JORGE JESUS, SAYING: "Given our path, with the work we have done, I think that tomorrow that could be the tactical difference so that there's an equilibrium (between the teams). To your question (who is the better team), there is just one answer. For the teams from Europe that get to a world final, they have the best players in the world. When the Brazilians reach a world final, they don't have the best players in the world." JESUS, AND MIDFIELDER, EVERTON RIBEIRO (RIGHT), LISTENING TO A QUESTION (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) FLAMENGO COACH, JORGE JESUS, SAYING: "And in Liverpool he (Juergen Klopp) was a creator of a 4-3-3 strategy. That's completely different from how my team plays, 3-3, 4-3-3. Very different from him, something that he has created and which is complicated. I also think he is a creator in football. There are coaches who are creators and others who just go copying and that's different, he is one of the creators." END OF NEWS CONFERENCE
- Embargoed: 3rd January 2020 17:46
- Keywords: FIFA Club World Cup Flamengo Jorge Jesus Liverpool
- Location: DOHA, QATAR
- City: DOHA, QATAR
- Country: Qatar
- Topics: Soccer,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001BAS7KN3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Flamengo coach Jorge Jesus sees Saturday's (December 21) FIFA Club World Cup final against Liverpool as one between two clubs that have rediscovered their former glory.
The former Benfica and Sporting Lisbon coach only took over the Rio club in June and led them to the Copa Libertadores title in November with victory over Argentina's River Plate and then their first Brazilian Serie A title since 2009, while Juergen Klopp has built Liverpool into European powerhouses once more.
Speaking in Doha on Friday (December 20), Jesus also said that any European side that reaches the Club World Cup final will have the best players in the world, while adding that Klopp was not a manager that copied other styles of play, but instead creates his own.
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