″ I use to see players for Palmeiras ″

Abel Ferreira took his first steps as a coach in … Football Manager, a video game that allows users to guide a football team. Now you don’t have time to play, but you still use it for other purposes.

After the success he had in the first season for Palmeiras, and now fulfilling a vacation period before returning to Brazil, Abel Ferreira has been much requested for interviews, where he has made himself known to the fans of the São Paulo club. This Wednesday, GloboEsporte tells the coach’s passion for the video game “Football Manager”.

The Portuguese confesses that he is a fan of the game and that he still uses it today to see some statistics of players that are proposed to Palmeiras. Now he doesn’t have time to play, but he was a regular player and liked to coach Penafiel, the club in the city where he comes from.

“I can say that, even today, I use that game to see the characteristics of the players that Palmeiras proposes to me. I think it is a complete game. I see players, I see how the game describes them in the mental, technical and physical part. level of knowledge and information is very real. So it’s one of the sources where I get the information, but not the only one. I don’t waste time playing, but I use it to get information from statistics “, he admitted.

“I already played … when I was a football player, in my early years, I did not like to coach top teams. All my colleagues were champions and win, but the reality is not like that. I can be champion at my level: training the Penafiel and not going down the division, for example. Then I’m already reaching my goal. That’s how I saw that game. I trained Penafiel a lot. I did it many times, I confess, but it was a way to pass the time “, he said.