Today, August 15, Tarciane gave an interview to a podcast and gave some details about the clash between Brazil and Spain in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games.
"I think we respect it too much sometimes, you know? Of course that we know that in cases, like against Spain, we are facing the best in the world, Putellas, Aitana, etc, we know that. But they need to respect us too, because we are representing our team, and they are representing theirs, we are playing the same game, the same competition. So we have to face them as equals because we are. In several games they (other teams) look at us as if we were nothing on the field. Against Spain in the last game (the semi-final) was a chaos. At the last moment in the tunnel before entering the pitch I thought, wow, dude, you're not going to play today. In the tunnel they were saying "they're afraid of us, relax, they're nervous" . The goalkeeper there, Cata Coll, turned around and said that we were afraid of them after I shouted "Go Brazil!" to motivate the team. When we were lined up and went to shake hands with each other, she squeezed our hands tightly, as if she wanted to hurt us and try to intimidate us with that. After that, when we sat down to talk before the game, I said, "Come on, guys, today is the game of our lives, look at how arrogant they are towards us.""
If what she said is true (and I believe it is, because I know my player) this explains a lot of the events on the field involving the Brazilian players and Cata and also the reactions after the game and especially after Spain's defeat and the statements that the players made.
