No.new controversy with Vitor Roque for the launch of a penalty. Paranaense Athletic they drew 3-3 against Cruzeiro, the club to which the 18-year-old striker belonged, before arriving at ‘Furacão’. The mining team, which belongs to ronaldohe went ahead and went on to extend his lead in what looked like it was going to be a comfortable victory.
Before the break, Madson closed the gap making it 2-1 and after the restart Pablo equalized. From there, the tone of the party changed. Wesley put Cruzeiro ahead again, but Athletico Paranaense did not give up the three points. Two minutes later, Rafael Cabral brought down Cannobio inside the area and the referee awarded a penalty.
The team’s first pitcher, Vitor Bueno, had left the field, so Vitor Roque thought that his moment might come. Fernandinho, formerly of Manchester City, took the ball and shot the penalty, scoring the last goal of the game that left everything in a draw.
Last day, against Vasco da Gama, Vitor Roque grabbed the ball to launch a penalty that the referee had awarded him. Well he took it off and threw himself. Then he gave a call to attention to the latest Brazilian signing of Barça in front of the press. “There is a hierarchy. When I was young, like him, I also wanted to take penalties,” he said.
So far no one, apart from Vitor Bueno, had manifested himself on the controversy of the penalties. However, after the match against Cruzeiro, Wesley Carvalho, Athletico Paranaense’s interim coach, was surprised that journalists were taking so long to ask him that question.
He wanted to explain it and he did it clearly: “Everything is calm, he is a boy who is in training, who was sold for 72 or 74 million. We care about training it. There is what we understand to be the best penalty shooters, who have a strong mentality that supports that moment. Vitor Bueno, Pablo, Alex Santana… When I make the pre-selection, with the ball set, it is defined who will be the first, the second… A player cannot arrive and generate that great responsibility for the one who shoots. From the moment he picks up the ball and takes it out of her hands, he creates a great responsibility for her. I secretly caught him and told him: don’t do that, you’re young and you’re learning, you’re going to learn to live with it, keep training, your time will come. Now the coach has chosen them and you have to respect them.”
He Bahian coach, specialized in directing grassroots teams, told how the most veteran players help train youngsters like Vitor Roque: “I haven’t seen if he did it again today, luckily they all managedYo. The three captains were on the field who are the coaches on the field: Fernandinho, Thiago and Pablo. They are the oldest, they know Athletico very well, they help us a lot on a day-to-day basis with the players. Even for his own training it is important to give him that advice, tell him that it is not like that, calm down. I think the word hierarchy is a bit heavy because it seems that whoever shoots is because they are older and not because they are older. At that moment he has more quality, both mentally and technically, to take the penalty and he is the coach’s choice.”
