Insight: Carlos Queiroz
Here, in a unique insight into the way Carlos works, United's No.2 highlights the ten crucial qualities required at Manchester United...
LEADERSHIP IS ALL ABOUT LEADING BY EXAMPLE
First of all you need to have the expertise of the game; secondly the leadership qualities. You need to be a role model and have passion – you must, through your work process and your ideas, win respect and credibility and you only can do that if the quality of your work, the quality of your management, shows on a daily basis. If you do that, you can make your players better players and better people, and create the right environment and right atmosphere to win the trophies that everyone expects
FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS
I believe that sometimes when you follow your instincts you find the right track to be in your life. I was born in a sport environment, which helps a lot. My father was a football player and a coach and I think that guided me… sometimes these things you have inside you.
YOUNG TALENT IS THE SECRET FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE
When I arrived here the first time, it was a team that was established for some years playing together. This time it is different. Young players have come in, new additions to the squad since I left – Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Alan Smith. When I arrived here it was Rio Ferdinand, just one player that brought a big impact to the defensive line, but two years later we talk about a new team, a special, very young squad that creates a huge hope in terms of what we can achieve in the coming years. If you look at our defensive line we have fantastic players who are in their twenties, whereas Milan has a defensive line with players that are 35, 36 years old. You can imagine that in four, five, six years’ time, Mikael Silvestre, Ferdinand, Wes Brown, John O’Shea, Gabriel Heinze… all these players will have been playing together all those years. We have a fantastic group of players and the expectations for the future are enormous.
A CHAMPIONSHIP ISN’T OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER
We will fight until the end for sure. We’ll never quit until we have an impossible task in front of us but at this moment it is important to focus on ourselves. In every game we really believe that our duty is to play, win the three points and just keep going, because this is the only thing we can control. We can’t control what Chelsea will be doing in the championship. That is not part of our problem. But if we concentrate on our task and if we play consistent, solid football, and every game we get three points, then we will keep going forward and keep the pressure on Chelsea
