Barcelona, Jun 22 (EFE) .- The Brazilian center of Barça Carlos Vagner ‘Ferrao’ considered in the preview of the final against Levante that his team has to “win the League to dedicate it to Andreu Plaza”, his coach in the last five seasons and he will be fired by the club at the end of this season.
“The coach, Andreu, was always our leader. He was always the one who gave us all confidence and knew how to get along very well. He deserves to win this League. I have always thanked him for the trust, for everything, and now we have to show it. winning the League so that he leaves the club through the front door, “he said in an interview with EFE.
Ferrao admitted that the players did not expect the change in the bench promoted by the new board of directors and that the news “has touched” them, but explained that “they are cycles” and was very confident in the new era presided over by Joan Laporta.
“(Laporta) gave us his full support and told us that he trusted the group. Now we have to show it. Since he entered we have not won any title, we won before he arrived, and nothing better than winning this League to dedicate it to him too” said the 30-year-old Brazilian.
Barça has won the Champions League corresponding to 2020 this season, postponed by the pandemic, but has lost three finals and has not added any other title, at the expense of what happens in the League final against Levante, despite which Ferrao considered that the squad “does not need to be claimed.”
“People will always talk about the end of the cycle, but Barça is Barça, and whoever wears this shirt knows what wearing it generates and the responsibility it entails. We have had a good season. Not the one we wanted, which was to win. everything, but we have been in all the finals of the disputed tournaments, removing the Copa del Rey, “he recalled.
The last bullet of the team is the final of the League against Levante, which begins this Thursday at the Palau Blaugrana, it is the best of three games, in a series in which, in the words of the pivot, “you have to assert the factor hint yes or yes “.
“The final will be very tough. Levante are a very solid team. They have shown it all season, that they were at the top of the table. So, we know it will be a very tough game. We don’t even think about the final matches right now. We are only thinking about Thursday, “said the scorer.
Barça will have the “plus” of experience in their favor, Ferrao considered, since the Catalan team has players much more accustomed than those of Levante to playing this type of game.
“Experience can help us to better control the game, but I think that in a final what is going to make you win is to be focused. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes will surely take it, because they are two great teams,” he added.
If three games are necessary to decide the winner of the series, the season will end for Barça on June 30, a late date to which the players arrive, according to Ferrao, “both mentally and physically a little exhausted.”
“The final part is a bit exhausting with the pandemic, which was also very tough. Matches, trips, everything we’ve been through. But for all the teams it was also very tough,” said Ferrao, convinced that winning the League will mean that it has been “worth it” all the sacrifice of the year.
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