Jesualdo Ferreira, PAO's former coach Options

[Elafara]

Η ΠΑΕ ΠΑΝΑΘΗΝΑΪΚΟΣ ανακοινώνει ότι ήρθε σε συμφωνία με τον κ. Ζεσουάλντο Φερέϊρα ο οποίος αναλαμβάνει απο αύριο τα καθήκοντα του προπονητή της ομάδας. Η συνεργασία μεταξύ των δύο πλευρών θα έχει διάρκεια 1,5 έτους.

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Φερέιρα: «Θα πετύχω»

Απο την πλευρά του ο Πορτογάλος τεχνικός τόνισε: «Είναι η πρώτη φορά που μιλάμε μαζί, είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος για το συμβόλαιο που υπέγραψα με το σύλλογο. Αποφάσισα να έρθω στον Παναθηναϊκό, είμαι ενθουσιασμένος για αυτό και το απόγευμα θα δω το παιχνίδι. Έχω έρθει με μεγάλη όρεξη για δουλειά, θα δώσω τον καλύτερο εαυτό μου προκειμένου να βοηθήσω, γιατί αυτή η δουλειά είναι σημαντική για μένα. Ο σύλλογος μου έδειξε εμπιστοσύνη και θέλω να την ανταποδώσω και να πετύχω με την ομάδα».

leoforos.gr

This post has been edited by Elafara: Nov 20 2010, 07:20 AM

[PAF]

This is my post from 2 days ago in the rumours topic about what was spoken about in the meeting:

I have heard that in the interview with Ferreira he was told to give Freitas and Antoniou a taste of what he would do with the team

* Make bigger use of Katsouranis ability to be an allrounder
* Play a 4-4-2 if Almeida comes and put him next to Cisse
* Remove the need for a "10" type player since 2 strikers will work together
* Ninis to go RW if Govou leaves
* Asked why Seitaridis has declined so far and wants to help him
* Asked about Luis Garcia's form and if he is versatile
* New CM to be brought in
* Lastly IF available he will search into a new CB too

This leaves:

Tzorvas
Vyntra/Seitaridis-Boumsong-Kante/Vyntra/Katsouranis-Spyropoulos
Govou/Ninis-Gilberto/?-Katsouranis/Karagounis/?-Leto/Luis Garcia
Almeida/Govou/Petropoulos-Cisse

The above is what he is thinking of trying out to begin with and seeing how it works. The players not mentioned will be coming off the bench.

Since then there has been even more talk of him using a 4-4-2 and I am looking forward to this standard formation used again because over the years it has brought us our greatest success. It all depends on January transfers if we can use this formation or not.

[cocksta]

I also luv the 4-4-2 but unless we get a ACM that can get the balls to the strikers it might not work goodluck to our new coach lets hope we start seeing some balla.

[Greekaus]

Welcome Jesualdo, hope you enjoy your next 8 to 14 months in Greece. Just help PAO win the SL again and all will be good.

[PaoDePao]

Oh God help us...anyway i don't want to infuriate anyone....especially if bad results may come...we must support him.

He is our Coach now and will have our patience and peace he needs and room and air to breathe untill, that is, the end of the season, or if the Title is lost, antrikies kouventes, de se ferame gia mostra alla gia Prwtathlima, but it was a wrong choice nonetheless, we were too eager to sign for more than the end of this season.

Good luck Sincerely...i wish i prove totally wrong, my damn gut feeling says otherwise. And his Malaga endeavor didn't sound too nice in my ears....

[Vasellos121]

great, a coach that mourinho humiliated talking about his forgettable 30 yr career, i really wanted to see what gmoch could do against barcelona, is gmoch still gonna coach us for that game?

[Greek_Mafiozos]

Not a good feeling at all about this ferreira guy. Anyway i wish him all the best.

[Giourkas]

great, a coach that mourinho humiliated talking about his forgettable 30 yr career, i really wanted to see what gmoch could do against barcelona, is gmoch still gonna coach us for that game?

I recall the "special one" making bold comments about PAO in the CL 2 years ago and we made him eat his words....

Welcome Ferreira! best of luck...

[TGC]

I cant believe how pessimistic some of you are about Ferreria. Personally I think he understands the sort of situation he's in and that'll help him immensely.

[paoboston]

look on the bright side: if he tanks, pao doesnt have to commit to him for that long. unlike he gays who give replacement coaches (i.e. zico) lucrative multi-year contracts that are a pain in the ass to deal after you fire the coach 3 months into it lol

[Vasellos121]

we should keep gmoch for the champions league encounter agaisnt barcelona

[JimmyP]

Gmoch should have stayed at least till the first of the year.

This guy wont last till the end of the season.

[PaoDePao]

Let me rephrase then....it's not Fereira that makes some of us pessimistic....it's that eve if he is the best man for the job, he won't be able to return this Panathinaikos to the last season Panathinaikos that was smashing opposition much easier by team play, instead of individual explosions.

It's the whole feeling of Panathinaikos that makes me pessimistic, and many times, ok with the usual tone of mine, i have posted on nioplias thread, that the players were the most of the problem and not the Coach. If that is the case, then like i said some posts above God help us.

Thus maybe Fereira is a bit unlucky too in that context, i'll give him that, as a bonus, for any flops for a couple of months. But not for more than two months. And surely not if the Title is lost before that.

[PaoDePao]

You want a joke now?
I think after the 0-2 maybe if the camera could see the thoughts of fereira:

"Ok when is the next flight back to lisbon....where did i come.....oh Gods, and i have to coach them against Barca...damn it's too late now, and as usual, watching these beefs or players....i will be the one that will loose his chair after some time....great, life is a beach for Coaches ain't it?, no wonder i rarely laugh"

[Greekaus]

I did see Ferreira next to Pateras holgding and staring at a piece of paper. Either the Olympic Airways fight schedule to Lisbon or he is ordering souvlakia with Pita.

Can't expect any overnight miracles from him but at the very least a set formation and some stability from players. Leto and Ninis when they return do offer more options that Nioplias did not have the past 4 to 6 weeks.

[paoboston]

http://www.contra.gr/Archive/ContraFiles/298148.html

a who's who of jesualdo ferreira. i thought it was a very good and interesting read as it covers his personal life, his career, and his philosophy on football (and yes, his relatoonship with mourinho).

[TGC]

Nice, thanks for that

[Stefanos_PAO13]

It's never a good idea to appoint a foreign coach half way in the season because he doesn't know enough about the players and the mentality and there is no time to learn. He will be expected to get results immediately.

It would have made much more sense to stick with Gmoch till summer.

[roulalas]

Sooner rather than later some of us will demand Jesualdo's head on a platter. I suggest that before we do that, we should stop and remember the chaos he is inheriting. A good description of our current state is offered by one of our posters who, correctly, described our team in the game against Ilraklis as follows:

> Team still has zero tactical awareness, formation and players willing to take any initiative bar primarily Cisse and at times Luis Garcia with Lazaros but their precision on the ball is erratic at best.
> First 20 minutes was like a bunch of guys were at their local park kicking a plastic ball for fun.
> Problems are still very evident, from Tzorvas who has to be dropped now, his confidence is shattered, reminds me of Galinovic, if he plays like that and cops some goals vs Barca he will need a shrink to get over it.
> The CB pairing was diabolical again, no matter who the two are they always let opposing teams cut right through them.
> Plessis has the speed and stamina of a man who is older than Karagounis.

Good Luck Jesualdo.

[Greekaus]

^^^^Good point on Fereira you made, Roulalas which got me thinking..Since Gmoch last coached PAO 25 years ago, the club has had including Ferreira atotal of 22 different appointed, head coaches. That is an average of 1 per every say every 15 months. They have come from 14 different Countries and every one of those 22 guys had his own unique football philosophy.

Its a miracle that any PAO team can have any cohesiveness from one Season to another. Basically its the quality of 2 -3 players that can make the difference from winning the league to being 3rd or 4th and playing shit. What is any coach going to ever do if he has to manage rubbish players ? Having Cisse as a striker can surely help your cause but you still need creativit y in the middle and solid defenders and keepers. I doubt whether Ferreira can fix that overnight. His organizational skills and experience might help keep the personal errors to a minimum but up front you still need to have players with guile and the ability to score.

Hopefully in January . Pateras can buy at least 2 more genuine quality and younger midfielders.