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In a long interview, Faria talked about many things, warning that there will be not much interviews similar to this one.
The interview started with Faria talking about how he see tactics and how he wants to play, accordingly to his team. He said that will always be a question of adapt the tactic to the players and never tho opposite. He reveals that he want to play with a 4-2-3-1 in Bilbao, with all the players in constant working. That's the most important thing, there's no stars or space to individualities. Of course, with a player like Muniain in the squad, it's important to give him confidence and support to give his best towards the team. But he has to work too. He won't losing time to put a player in the bench if he doesn't correspond on the pitch to what it's asked. Team must be an unit, with the global being superior than the individual.
Faria also said that all the moments in the game are important but, in his opinion, a team must be developed starting from the back, with strong defensive process. Therefor, he rather prefers winning 5 times by 1-0 rather than winning by 4-3 or 3-2. Thats for hockey, not in football.
Talking about tactics, the conversation ended up in Mourinho. Faria said that he was a tremendous influence in his way to see football, about how to manage a locker room, how to deal to press, etc. He can only be grateful about the time spent with Mourinho, the best of all times accordingly to Faria, since the early days in Portugal. Rui also revealed that Mourinho wish him all the luck, except when Bilbao plays with Madrid (laughs).
About his thoughts on how far can Bilbao go in this season and afterwards, Faria smiled. He explianed that, with the charismatic stadium and fans, Bilbao can achieve many good things. He also said that, with humility and determination, any team can achieve many things that seems impossible. The quality of players is there, they have a great manager. So, with all these good things, Bilbao only can make good things and bring many trophy to Basque Country to make the people even more satisfied.
And what about the other teams? Faria explained that the team doesn't have fear of any of them but, as it's easy to understand, Bilbao will respect a lot each opponent like it was an important final. But Bilbao will be respected too, specially at home, he said.
And what about him? Which projects he has? Faria said that the most important thing to him is enjoy the footie, the familiarity in locker room, etc. But, as every man in Football wants, he wants to win as much as he can. He talked about his dream to manage in England, due to the passion of fans, the way Football is seen, etc. He also said that he's sure about winning Champions League, at least one time.
Finally, Faria assured the fans (and the team...) that he's 110% committed to this project and expects everyone to give their best regarding the team, without promising any trophy but only work to achieve the success.
Expect that everyone like this idea. This is a mix between real opinions and my ideas (Jukilo ahah) about Football. If you have any questions that you like Faria to answer just tell me and I'll put in a some kind of interview
Cheers
