Coach talks about seniors and the formation of the coming season

Confirmed his renewal as a technician of the senior male team and announced his new duties as Coordinator of Training, João Freitas spoke to the Official Site of the CAB, addressing some of the issues that naturally arise at this point in time. Your words are recorded here. What CAB can we expect in the new season? A containment CAB, experiencing great difficulties, but committed to the payment of accumulated debts due to delays. In the sports field, the only goal is maintenance. The CAB will not, as was our purpose, continue to grow and assert itself as one of the best national teams. It's gonna be a very difficult year. Our ability to work has to be enormous. We have to make up for the difficulties by being better at the work we do. Are you afraid of the conditions that the CAB and the other Madeiran teams may have to face again? Experience tells us this is going to remain a very complicated year. I would like to refer again to a team that wants a representative from a region to be supported differently. Some people say that the best is the enemy of the good, but I have the opposite opinion. What are the goals of the CAB in the new season? Maintenance is the only goal. You can't aspire to anything else. What ideas do you have for the squad? Is it the ideal squad or the best? The ideas are always the same: competence in players to perform the functions within the team. We may have to change the way we play. The range of choices is very small. Without investment there is little return on quality. We have to hit the players' choices to bring. Plantiles are always possible under each other's conditions. Does the task of assuming coordination of club training motivate you? A lot, otherwise I wouldn't have accepted the challenge. I have to involve the training coaches in a broader commitment to the club. I will not say that everything will change and be better, because that would be to pass a certificate of incompetence to all previous coordinators. There has to be a greater involvement of all to make the CAB a better trainer. The change will not be ‘the João Freitas Coordinator’; it will be each of the trainers of the training want to be better. To evolve we need to grow, feel that we are part of something and see recognized our work. This is the stimulus I have to convey to those who have a vocation to train young people. We have only one 'handicap', which is also at national level, which is the height of young people. We can't form centimeters. As coordinator, what ideas and concepts will try to introduce into the younger layers of 'Friends'? We all have to realize that six hours a week of training, for those who have it, is not enough to make players of nothing. Are the training coaches willing to do much more? Are there facilities available to do much more? Are young people and parents willing to accept much more? That's the challenge. Then the basketball issues will come. How do we want our kids to play? What game concepts at each stage? But that's the easiest. Is it essential for the club's training project to create a male B team, as is the case in the female sector? Of course. Even juniors and cadets should have regular national competition. Competition is the engine for the development of trained capabilities. Without competition, evolution is ridiculously small. The step from sub-24 to seniors is too big. If uncompensated with competition in the lower echelon, many fall into the pit that is created. This is a problem, not only regional, but national. What are the slogans for the senior team that will lead in 2013/2014? Involvement. With everyone engaged and involved, all other things come after them.