Tanel

This was the time, we arrived in the Trofa for our season opener againist Trofense. The pre-season was a walk in park for us in my opinion, but it was time to start making real comparisions. I hadn't just sat down in the trainings during the pre-season though.

I had gone down to see couple of pre-season games of other clubs also, watched some scout tapes from the pre-season and last season. I had certainly come here to get the promotion and for that I was going to work 24/7 if needed. I always want to be best, that's what is pushing me for greater things. Even when you are the best you can still get better. There's no stopping, if you win 10 games in a row 10-0, you can get better and improve to 11-0.


But that all wasn't part of my five minute speech I gave to my players before the match in the dressing room.

"Players. Staff. That game is not just an another league game we're having ahead of us. It's the season opener. And because of that, I'm not going to lie to you, I'm reading you morale, giving a speech or motivating you, in case what you feel. Anyway, I won't be doing that before every match, because the blattering would get annoying before every game. I'm blattering right now and wasting time to talk about our plans already.

Anyway, this season we've got one goal - to get promoted. I won't accept with anything less than that, neither should you. This past pre-season has gotten us all together a lot, we had small suffers, but more it was positive experience. Now the fun part is over, it's about working hard. Those who work hard can have fun aslong.

We'll be taking it game by game, watching the table only after the game and seeing where we can improve, which we can always do. The chicken will be count in spring for us.

Even when we lose, we must always take our enthusiasm with us. We must raise up with the man of dignity, learn from our mistakes. When you make mistakes, you need to understand them, that way you can turn failure into success. You need to be smart, yet stubborn facing those situations.

Football is about passion for me. If you go on the pitch you always need to find something to push you to extreme's. It can be your dream of becoming the best footballer ever, playing for the shirt your blood is pumping for or even scoring a goal to win the division top scorer title. I want passion to win, because that is already half of victory.

Every player has his talents, but question is does he use them and what they are. Always play for your strenght, not opponents weakness. Using opponents weaknesses is my job.

I want you to go on pitch tonight thinking with what I said. I want us to succeed."

I didn't know how was that speech going to fire up my players, as I prepared for the season opener. Some players were still out of the squad, but our pre-season had gone rather injury-free and after Italy tour accidents nothing had gone wrong. Cristovao was already full training after horrific accident, but around couple of weeks behind in the match fitness so he wasn't going to play until September for sure.