At the press conference held at Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, after the match (goalless draw) between Gil Vicente and Estoril, which registered some hottest moments between players on both sides, coach Ricardo Soares took the opportunity to explain the protests with of the refereeing team and leave some pecks to the opponent.
“Maybe I should talk and gesture less, but it’s part of my way of communicating. I told the referee that we all want positive, well-played football. My players don’t surround referees, nor do they simulate penalties or fouls, I try at all costs that this doesn’t happen», fired the coach of the Minho.
Ricardo Soares underlined that «I wish there had been three teams that wanted to play, but there was only one» and even gave as an example Sérgio Conceição in contesting the anti-game played in Portugal: «I’ve had several meetings with coaches to finish once and for all with the antigame, so that the games can have more minutes. I think it was even Sergio [Conceição] who, in one of those meetings, said, and rightly so, that these meetings did not make sense without the arbitrators present.”
The coach recalled the behavior of his team at Estádio do Dragão, in which, reduced to ten, the roosters abstained from this type of practice: «Still on the last round, against a great team and with one less, we did not make an antigame or delay the match .»
Ricardo Soares observed, however, the opposite behavior on the part of the Cascais team: «As for Estoril, he did what he thought was best, he used all the strategies and they worked because he took a point from here. It had its merit. I don’t want to make a case out of this, but I told the referee that four minutes [de compensação] didn’t make any sense.”
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