After the defeat against Uzbekistan (1-3), the day before, Portugal returned to winning ways, this Sunday, thrashing Costa Rica (5-0), in a special game for coach Jorge Braz: the 150th in charge of the corner team. The president of the FPF, Fernando Gomes, was present at the Pavilhão Cidade de Viseu, and made a point of delivering a shirt allusive to the 150 games to the coach.
«I didn’t know the number, I already realized that there are 150 games and 95 wins, it has to be shortened [risos]. It’s a huge pride, it was an extremely pleasant surprise, but we want more and by improving that ratio I’m certainly helping to improve Portuguese futsal. that’s what matters», Jorge Braz told the FPF website.
Jorge Braz made his debut as national coach on September 23, 2003, in the first of two preparation games against Azerbaijan (Portuguese victory, by 2-1), but only from July 2006 he became a member of the national technical team. , assisting Orlando Duarte. In July 2010 he assumed the role of national coach and his debut took place on October 17, 2010, in a game of the VI Grand Prix of Futsal, in Anápolis (Brazil), against (2-0). Since then, Braz has led the team to the finals of four European Championships: Croatia-2012 (quarter finals), Belgium-2014 (4th place), Serbia-2016 (quarter finals) and Slovenia-2018 (champion) . The coach also qualified the Portuguese team for the final phases of the Thailand-2012 (quarter finals), Colombia-2016 (4th place) and Lithuania-2021 World Cups. » in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
As far as the game is concerned, it was the fifth in preparation for the World Cup Lithuania-2021, between September 12 and October 3, against Costa Rica, CONCACAF champions, Portugal took the lead after five minutes, through André Coelho, followed by goals by Bruno Coelho (13), Pauleta (16), Afonso (25) and Tiago Brito (38).
The National Team will concentrate again next Tuesday, in Viseu, with a double confrontation with the Paraguayan counterpart scheduled for September 3rd and 5th, plus two preparation games with the World Cup in mind.
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