Today is the first day of my life as a football coach. i decided to go early to work today, just to see what kind of club it is and off course to arrange some friendly’s. Just because it was my 1st club ever I had in mind of playing some major teams butt unfortunately they didn’t want to play against us. So I only had 4 friendly’s this season. Our first match is on 23-07-07 against our under 19 squad. The second match is also against our under 19 squad. Our third match is on 10-08-07 against amateur team Anadia and our last match is against Castrense. So far our pre-season. Then I wanted to see how our squad was witch players did we have and on what position they played. So I had to send my only scout on a trip thru Portugal to see if there are players that are good enough to join us.
After sending my scout on his way I looked at our technical staff and saw that we didn’t have enough staff to work with so I decided to look around for new staff. At the end of the day I went home to get some rest because in only 3 days we will have our first match. When I got home I had mail. i opened my mail and saw this.
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Dear Mr. John,
Welcome to Pacos de Ferreira. I hope can achieve great things here, but there are some things we would like to know about you. Can you come to the stadium tonight at 8 o’clock for a press conference.
Yours truly,
Fernando Sequeira |
Ladies and gentleman I would like to say welcome to this press conference. I’m F. Sequeira I’m the chairman of this club but you all know me. Tonight it’s about the man next to me. Let me introduce him to you all. His name is John Bakker he is 32 years old. And now I’ll let him do the talking and after that you can ask some questions. Good evening all. First of all welcome. I’m glad that you all made it on a short notice. Let me tell me a bit about myself. Like the chairman said my name is John Bakker I’m 32 years and come from the Netherlands. This is the first professional club I take under my wings. And I know we have a long way to go before becoming a top team here in Portugal. If you have any question feel free to ask them and if I know the answer I’ll tell you.
Hello Mr. Bakker my name is Jorge from the O Jogo paper. I have a question. What are your goals for this season? First of all call me John. And about our goal this season I can say the following. I want to make it to the group stage of the Uefa Cup and get as far as we can in both cups. And last but not least I want to make it with the 1st 9 in the league. Next question. Hello John my name is Manuel from A Bola Futebol. Do you have any intension of getting new players for your squad? Well Manuel I’m not sure yet maybe 1 or 2 new players butt the main goal on the transfer market is to get more staff members. Because I think we have a good and solid team here.
Ok so far for this short press conference butt we all have work to do. I would like to thank you all for coming and maybe until next time 
