Tite

“We don't need referees in order to win the game; we just want it to be fair. You should look at all of the plays and then make a decision.”

“Coutinho, Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar, Douglas Costa, Taison... they think fast and execute fast. The final third of the pitch requires that.”

“Neymar reassures you, because he brings unpredictability to your game. Because he will offer you an individual or collective solution that others cannot, and with him, the potential of a team is not the same, because he will sparkle.”

“To play here and win here in Uruguay is a very difficult thing. Here you have a really strong atmosphere, energy. You have to have your highest focus. You have physical, technical, tactical and mental aspects.”

“I would like to live in the country that wins less, but has more stability. Brazilian coaches remain, on average, in a job for three months.”

“Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.”

“It's one thing to throw Rodrygo into a system that's already structured, like Real's. It's another thing to put him in a team that is being reassembled, even if he was doing the same job in the same position.”

“I remember during the 1970 World Cup, the whole country stopped to focus on the matches. I was nine years old. I would sit in front of the radio with my father, and we would listen to the magic of football. It was like the matches were a dramatic story being told to us. It was a kind of art, in my opinion. It was like a painting or a great novel.”

“Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga's squad.”

“I respect opinions, I don't give opinions on them. I learnt to respect them. And I also have a very clear opinion on Rivaldo. He was a great player and the image that comes to me is of him controlling the ball on the chest and scoring in Barcelona. The most beautiful thing in this world. That's my opinion.”

“Perhaps Argentina have been benefited by the talent of Messi.”

“I make mistakes and I will continue to do so.”

“Neymar has important and extraordinary records. And he also has a solidarity side that he will gradually show.”

“We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.”

“In truth, I never dreamed of being a manager. Like every other boy in Brazil who was marked by the '70 World Cup, I dreamed of wearing the yellow shirt for the national team. Unfortunately, that was not my fate. I had to undergo seven surgeries on my knee. At 27, my career was over, and I was still a young man.”

“It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.”

“There are moments when you have to have a cool head and keep a standard.”

“The players are the essence of the game. It is their creativity, the technical capacity of the player - the players have to be free to explore their individual creativity in the last third of the field, the team able to attack with six players, without concern for the defence.”

“I want to evolve and keep evolving.”

“Ancelotti's teams are more balanced. It's a more Italian defense and creativity from the midfield forward. I admire his work and also his discreet profile. I am also like that.”