José Curado affirms the quality of Portuguese coaches

José Curado shared a touch of his vast experience on about the training of coaches as part of the Future of Football International Congress in this Tuesday's session.

“If there a future for football without quality coaches? Would it be possible to have such a quality sport with poor quality coaches? Can we have good doctors with bad training? I don't think so", opened Curado in his presentation, focusing in on the role of coaching in Portugal.

Reflecting on the success of Portuguese coaches, Curado sees his colleagues as worthy of a case study: "Portuguese coaches are always in the headlines, also because there are a lot of them, but also because everyone recognises their quality. We have a lot of Portuguese coaches in a lot of sports abroad, despite how fragile our training process is. Look at the NBA project in India, taking the sport to the world's most populous country. The project is led by a group of Portuguese coaches, under the coordination of Carlos Barroca. Mário Palma, for example, got Angola into the Olympic Games three times. The first woman invited to train a professional team was Portuguese, Helena Costa."