Menotti took over the reins of the national team: "I do not know how many players are better than those who play here"

César Luis Menotti He began his process as director of the national teams and then returned to occupy a position in the maximum structure of Argentine football after 37 years. At the press conference that he proposed on the site of Ezeiza - which he clarified when entering for the first time in his life - he gave details of what he said. he will do and specified his position.

The "skinny" explained his look on the national team with a comparison: "We must once again conquer the people and that the national team is a place that the footballer ranks. Colon Theater it's him Colon Theater not only because of the building, but because it has been defended for many years that the artist who arrived there was to be a man of great prestige and endowed with great value . I would like football stadiums to be those. "

In this musical line, he badyzed: "Argentina is a country with very good players and looking for a team. Teams are built like an orchestra, through good musiciansbut also during the rehearsal hours. We will try to worry about forming a team that will have as many test hours as possible. "

At the same time, he asked for a change of audience to make the team popular again: "I still dream of a selection of people. spectators and audience. The selection lately, it fills with spectators. These are the ones boxes that go people who go once a yeareither they walk from models to artists. And I see little public of the selection. I dream that the national team will take pleasure and be representative of a style and a way of playing that identifies it. It has nothing to do if we play more forward or forward. "

OTHER REMARKABLE PHRASES OF MENOTTI

• "We will try to integrate the participation of players selections that are in Argentina.What I want is to try to strengthen the selection of players who play in Argentina so that the coach can to work".

• "Now the 16-year-old players are sold, but I do not know how many are better than the best, that's what we want to try, we know that there are some who are the best, but what we want to know, it is there is not any. " equal, "They are not the best."

• "I really want to see the Argentine national team play in Jujuy, Salta, Rosario, Córdoba ... I will do my best."

• "We thought that success would save us, and no one guarantees it, our success must be that of a team that gets upset thinking" how we lost this game "and where the friend says "But we play well." I do not know anyone who plays for not winning a match, we came to ridicule to say "the only thing that matters to me is win."

• "I want my team to play better than the opponent and win the match, I do not like winning in any way, not by chance".

• "Players must understand that coming into the national team does not come to improve the price, it is a serious place, but if we manage it, we will not blame the players."

• "Every ball thrown by a footballer with the jersey of the national team triggers a cultural event as a cultural event in neighborhoods, schools, corners ... This can only be done by the team Argentine National Bank. "

• "For the player to be part of the national team is an invitation, he has no obligation, he has a contract with the club, the obligation of the national team can be avoided by him or by the club. " It would be ugly for the club to decide and prevent it from playing. If the decision belongs to the player, it is different. "

• In the women's team: "I saw women playing when I was 25 in the United States, and the pibas played better than the boys! We will do it to death. I like that." they play." There is no sport in which the woman is better cared for than in football, football is a wonderful badociation place. "

• "I've had an intense conversation with coaches recently, I'm happy, I do not come with a technician under my arm, I'm going to see only the workouts, let's talk, I'll say what I think, but I will never interfere in their decisions. "

• "I come to help from all places, to strengthen the relationship between the footballer and the people, the Argentine team has long weakened and not by success or failure." The national team I am of those who like the footballer to know what it is to play in the national team.

• "I do not want to reinforce the idea that if Messi came, we would be saved because it would not work for us".

• "I do not doubt that Messi will be in Copa America, but I do not want to make this idea of ​​Messi either if we are saved because it does not work for us."