João Pedro Vieira launches motto for 2015/2016

João Pedro Vieira will start his third consecutive year ahead of the female senior team in 2015/2016. After a year of ‘sweet’ that was completed with a flavor ‘amargo’, the coach, who is also a former club athlete, looks at the future with enthusiasm, but also with sense of responsibility, or not the CAB A team on which, year after year, high expectations always fall. The CAB's Official Site sat down to chat with João Pedro and, in mild conversation, spoke to the coach about what the women's team expects and their opinion about the club's currentity. This is where the conversation is recorded: Is it easy to coach a team you expect, always, a lot? Of course it's never easy, but for an ambitious coach like me, it's projects like this that give me motivation to do my job at the best level. How does the group (trainers and athletes) view expectations and deal with pressure? In our group, we have the advantage of being a part of it, some players with a great career made in the Women's League and even international experience, which helps the team cope best with any kind of pressure. The foreigners we recruit also have to have a certain profile, because they come to play for a club that enters every competition to win and they have to know that beforehand. Any player who comes to play for the CAB has to know that if she doesn't come with a winning spirit, a fight and a total delivery, she won't succeed in the teams I guide. We coaches must deal with the constant pressure to achieve results and do our best to achieve the team's ambitious goals. I personally put a lot of pressure on my work, because I work every day to always be better. What's your opinion of the main trophies' dispute? Is there anything that needs to be reviewed? The Portuguese Cup has the characteristic of being a test to eliminate and that is what makes it special and different. But the Women's League championship must be a competition that prejudges the regularity of a team. The champion team should not be found for a weekend, because what is the point of clubs working daily for almost 8 months to make a new championship in 3 days? Will the presence of Benfica and Sporting in the League alter the competitive landscape? The presence of these two huge football clubs in the League can only change the competitive landscape if they invest in recruiting players who make a difference, because the possibility of these teams getting financial support is naturally superior to that of the other clubs. But in terms of visibility for the Women's League, it is positive and let's hope that feminine basketball has more time on the national scene and not only in the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira. What can we expect from the Female CAB, version 2015-2016? This next season, will be the third consecutive I will be the lead coach of the Women's Wood CAB. From time to time, my club has created conditions for our team to be more competitive than it was the previous year. Next season, we want to be better than 2014/2015, knowing in advance that not to lose again for 34 consecutive games and for 7 months it will be very difficult to happen so soon. However, we really want to be even better and win the main title that has escaped us in the last two seasons, which is that of national champions. That is why we are very carefully building a team that gives us the conditions to fight for our goals. It will certainly be a different, balanced and ambitious team. What are the predictions for the CAB Tournament? This summer we'll have the 18th edition of our tournament. We expect about 12 teams from outside Madeira, 25 teams in total, and we expect it to be a great tournament, this year with the participation, for the first time, of the sub-19 female ranks. After the tournament, we'll have the CAB Elite Camp. What is the purpose of the initiative? The main objective of this field is to develop a specific technical work with those athletes who currently have more conditions to evolve. Participation is not open but by invitation from senior male and female team coaches. We will have two working groups, one female and one male, which will consist of sub-14, sub-16 and sub-19/20 athletes, who, for two weeks and daily, will work very specific aspects of the game, in order to help their individual evolution as players who are able to reach our senior teams. What message would you like to leave the CAB FAMILY? Our club is getting bigger. The involvement of the parents of our athletes is growing. It gives me great pleasure to see our pavilion full of young people learning basketball. Come to your children's games more and more, and come and support our senior teams. Nothing worse for a player than competing in an empty pavilion. More and more our trainers in the training classes have better skills, do not want to see immediate results in the lower echelons, this is a process that takes a long time. For my part, as the principal responsible for the senior female team, I will do everything to honor and dignify the name of the CAB. I can only promise one thing: WORK.