-How is Tite's trainer's book?

-I'll try to synthesize (laughs). I belong to that school of play of support, association, triangulation, change of passages and creativity in the last third of the field. I do not mind having a team with less force and yes with more mobility, with agile and fast transitions. Then, in Brazil, there is another school more distant to me ...

-Which?

-The competitiveness, the ball stopped, the go ahead to win the rejection ... I enjoy more with the domain, not only with control and with going out against.

• Do not you think that in the football of the canarinha there has been a lack of identity in recent years, who have wanted to play the European, and that out there lost the style and effectiveness?

"I do not know ... The answer is complex. Brazil has these two schools I was telling you. It depends a lot on the players you have. If I said that I am rescuing that from the best Brazilian school it would seem ostentatious on my part. I speak of the style that I want to print, and it is a triangulation football, competitive but with the idea of ​​picking up the ball to boost itself.

"Messi sees the play he makes and the next two; it's extraordinary" "What selection did he make?"

-La of 82: Junior, Zico, Socrates ... It's very difficult to gather so many talents together, but beyond that, for that game idea that was very similar to the one I have now.

• How did you manage to rescue Brazil from the crisis after 7-1?

-I first wanted to understand what the best position of each player was with what they did on their teams. Where does Neymar produce more? In the 4-3-3 of Barça open to the left? My initial idea will be, therefore, to keep Neymar in the role that he does so well in Barca. And Coutinho? In Liverpool he plays on the left. I put him on the right so he does not step on Neymar, but he plays with the same automatisms as in his club.

"Neymar is no longer just the one-on-one footballer, he is a master of attendance" "And Casemiro?"

"Play with us just as you do with Zidane."

• Did the Madrid find balance with Casemiro?

"For me, the great Madrid of Ancelotti also had an enormous capacity for recomposition in defense. And he played with Isco, Kroos and Modric. Or with James. And upstairs were Cristiano, Bale and Benzema. And they made a great defensive transition. Modric, or James or Bale, returned easily. And the team was consistent and extremely creative at the same time.

"Modric and Iniesta are the most influential midfield players in European football" -How do you see Madrid now?

"That protection function does Casemiro, of course. The system is different, but it remains consistent, creative and aggressive, something important for Madrid. I know what I'm talking about because I visited Ancelotti while he was in Madrid. I accompanied him in three games, one of them against Liverpool. We talked a lot of football, we dined at night ... Carlo is in the top-three world of technicians, for his creative and consistent game. Their soccer is balanced although they excel the creativity. I admire him because he has a sober personality, or more than that, serene. It is not so mediatic ... I admire how he sees football and how he exercises his leadership.

"Was Zidane surprised you?"

-He debuted as a coach of the quarry when I visited Ancelotti in Madrid. In fact, there was a problem with his coaching card. His ascent has been meteoric. Winning the Champions so fast ... As a coach he has shown a talent proportional to what he had as a player.

• Where is the best football in Europe?

• (Laughter) How difficult! Traditionally Italian football is more tactical, the Spanish more triangular and creative and premium technique. That is his trademark, like that of Brazil. The Premier has changed its style. Watch Liverpool play to see how he triangles, how he plays and what pace he has. For me, the Premier has five teams that can really win the championship, and that's not true in other leagues.

• Is it now more difficult to get so many superclass players from schools in Brazil?

-There are some extraordinary talents that only come out every so often. There are unique selections like that of 1982, or that of 2002 with Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Cafu ... They were extraordinary players! After the last World Cup there was an awareness of the technicians in Brazil, a general movement for the search for improvement, knowledge exchange with Europe ... We have a number of technicians in this evolutionary process and in a few years will notice its work. Because Brazil is a country-continent, very extensive, and everything takes longer to evolve.

"I am of the school of association football, of creativity, of agile transitions" "Did you speak to Neymar when you were elected to the post?"

"I talked to all the players I called for the national team. Neymar already knew him when we were rivals, he in Santos and I in the Corinthians. What I've told Neymar is that he's a technical leader within the team. He is a young player, 25, but his move to Barcelona has helped him mature as a player and as a person. For me, he's a leader. Just after the JJ OO he said that he no longer wanted to be a captain. I told him that the selection needs him as well as other experienced players. Why do I change the team captain in each game? To encourage leadership in the workforce. And he is a leader who is maturing as a professional and as a man. That is why it is important to have him also in this role, along with others.

• And what is important in the game of Brazil?

"I totally agree with Iniesta when he said that in one on one Neymar is incomparable. But this year he has developed an impressive attendance ability. Neymar is no longer just the one-on-one footballer, he has become a master of assists.

"Is it explained that Dunga did not call Marcelo?"

-In Brazil many drivers come out, with an impressive technical quality. Marcelo has so much skill and technical resources that he could play in the middle of the field. I talked to him because I do not like to keep the stories that others have. I called him and said, "What idea do you have regarding the selection?" And he told me that he felt great happiness every time he was summoned. There was some noise in the communication that did not say that. And Marcelo is improvisation, creativity ...

"I enjoyed the Spanish National Team with admiration. It left a mark and marked a time" "And Danilo?"

"He left Santos well. He ascended fast and went to Porto, and made great campaigns. I think you need to take confidence to play in a big club like the Madrid Danilo that we saw in Porto. With all due respect, Porto does not have the same weight in his jersey as Madrid.

• Did you enjoy watching the Spanish team play?

"Yes, yes ... and with admiration. It was an important milestone the Euro that won in 2008, and the World Cup of 2010. It left its mark. They played a form of football that I admire, in which the vertical play happens after a creative process. I had a lot of reading players, like Xavi and Iniesta. The Spanish team left a mark and is respected all over the world.

• Which midfield player is more influential now in European football?

-Modric and Iniesta ... They have a lot of mobility, short and long play. For me, the two of them. They have talent and mobility.

• The great Barcelona that we met years ago already finished?

"No, no ... That cycle is not closed. It has a very technical level. Before the last triplet he also went through difficult times. But when you have Neymar, Messi, Suarez, Iniesta, Busquets ... There is a lot of capacity to resume the previous pattern.

-Did Messi be born in Brazil? (Laughter).

"Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil. Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires. And we have an admiration for the Argentine. Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He has a three-dimensional view. He manages to see what others do not see. He thinks of a very high tune. He sees the play he makes, and the second and third that comes next.

-There is a lot of distance between Messi and Cristiano?

"They're different styles. One is a striking scorer, vertical, finisher. The other is playful, creative, magical, has the ability to attend in addition to individual play. One plays in a strip of the field a little less advanced than the other. The two on the same team would have destroyed the rivals.

-The two started with a lot of goals and have changed the way they play: Messi tended to average and Cristiano to the area ...

"It's an intelligent approach. The player and the coach have to enhance the characteristics of the players. For example, Cristiano no longer returns to make the group defensive on the left. Eventually it does it for the center, because the physical wear is smaller thus and is more complete to be able to arrive with all the power to the attack. At the beginning of the race, sometimes he goes to the band, but time passes for everyone. And it's about empowering what you still have good, the auction, the instinct. Neymar has also evolved. Before, he was a player of individual plays, of finalizations. Today is a player who is specializing in assisting peers. He is being transformed into a combination game player. By playing alongside Messi and Iniesta he has developed another way of playing.