Touching the homesoil
9th of July 2006
Portugese media headlines about my appointment were rather small and side of the paper news obviously. If I would've not been foreign then I would've not gotten anything at all. But that was obvious.
In Estonia though things were trastically different. It was a rather big in the papers and TV. There were even column's where they said that I probably bought my place in the side which though is partly true as I've admited it myself that I got there thanks to my father's connections.
But overally people were ecstatic, they didn't know my face or anything, but they were great to hear the news that Estonian manager is going foreign. The papers had already found out that Leixões is one of the biggest candidate for promotion so it raised the fuzz even more.
I remained rather quiet, but did accept an interview with my favourite paper - SL Õhtuleht (Translate: Evening Paper) as I made a quick return to Estonia. I answered to their questions about the club, how I got the job, what I plan to do.
Tallinn Airport with the beautiful sky as I arrived at yesterday night.
I don't think it's rather interesting to read what I told there and I prefer not to write the stuff which everyone can figure out themselves. You know, I plan to get promoted.
Eventhough one question was more appealing to the people which was new to me. They asked me will I try get some Estonians to the Portugal league. I told to think about it, also telling that my financial possibilties aren't really wide.
After the interview I immediately headed to Tartu and have my time with friends there as I probably wasn't going to come back for a long time. Probably not during the christmas even.
During the bus-drive, rather funny considering my financial possiblities, I was seriously thinking about the Estonian part. I had found out the weak spots of the team and I knew couple of promising Estonians for that. Maybe I can arrange something with the next three days I'm here. Get a meeting with some dudes from the three top clubs - Levadia, Flora & TVMK.
I knew that Levadia was coming to play one of the Tartu teams during that three days time.
