Former international defender Augusto Inácio affirms that Portugal’s participation in the World Cup as an organizer is “unprecedented”, highlighting that the “responsibility of the Portuguese team increases”, although the majority of the players who are now part of it will not be the same in 2030.
The coach does not hide, however, the surprise he feels at the fact that the matches are not only held in Portugal, Morocco and Spain, whose requests to the organization were approved by FIFA this Wednesday.
“When I read that Portugal, Spain and Morocco were the winners for this organization of the 2030 World Cup, I thought that all the matches would be in Portugal, Spain and Morocco and never in South America. I even want to say then that this is not just Portugal, Spain and Morocco “he confesses, speaking with TSF.
Even so, he points out that the conquest of Portugal is “a satisfaction”, explaining that the country “had already shown, since the 2004 Euro Cup, that it was prepared for these great competitions and that it is a country that organizes things well, not only in sporting terms, but also in terms of safety.
“There was always the idea that Portugal could have the possibility of organizing the World Cup later as well. It is true that it does not organize it alone, but we did it. We also achieved it thanks to the great work that the team did.” The president of the Federation, Fernando Gomes, is doing it, and that made things go better for us and in 2030 we will have this reality,” he says.
On the other hand, Augusto Inácio highlights that the pressure increases for Portuguese players.
“It is obvious that it increases, and in what way, the responsibility of our team because we are an organizing country and when we do not organize in other World Cups, what did we always say? Portugal is a putative candidate to win the World Cup.” World Cup, we never got there, it’s putative and now we play at home, of course we will have more responsibilities,” he argues, further stating that this is “good” and demonstrates the “evolution” of the corner team.
“We have many players playing outside of Portugal in very competitive championships and, then, we will see what players we will have at that time, because, in the meantime, there are seven years left and, until then, many of these players “The players who are currently in the national team They will not be in the 2030 World Cup,” he says, praising the work of Rui Jorge, who he believes is building “a good base of players in the under-21 category.”
Source: TSF
