The assistant coach of the national team, Peruvian Jerry Tamashiro, confirmed that he is grateful to the Colombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto, after giving him the opportunity to work within the technical team of the Emirates team, pointing out that it is a wonderful and important experience for his career in the field of training, while he indicated that he was stunned when he arrived Dubai, due to the abundance and quality of shopping malls and extremely high temperatures and humidity at this time of the year.
“When I arrived in Dubai, the first thing that surprised me was that it is a very modern and developed city, and everything was very well constructed with regard to the airport, buildings and roads, but what was crazy to me was the high temperatures,” Tamashiro told the American Archives newspaper. And the humidity is very high, and although everything is equipped in all places with refrigeration devices, there is air conditioning everywhere, but once I got out of the car I felt like I was in (the sauna), or I was put in the oven, in return I was attracted to the shopping centers in Dubai, it is huge and luxurious Very luxurious and expensive at the same time ».
The Japanese coach, Tamashiro, spoke about the scenes of joining the technical team of the national team, and said: “Teacher Pinto called me a month ago, he told me that he has an opportunity to train the Emirates team, and that he is nominating me to accompany him in this task, with a Spanish candidate, and although the Colombian coach has already Working with many technical coaches in Colombia, Honduras and Costa Rica, he confirmed to me his desire to be with him in the Emirates, so I immediately replied that I was ready for the mission. ”
He added: «I am very grateful to coach Pinto after giving me this opportunity, as the UAE is a country with a different culture, which gives you all the facilities to work, and you can imagine that Real Madrid was here and won the Club World Cup title.»
Tamashiro indicated that he had worked for two weeks with Pinto while he was coaching the Costa Rican national team. He said: “The Colombian coach called me to go to Costa Rica before the 2014 World Cup, and he told me that he only trusted me to record the exercises, and he ordered the construction of a tower in the eight-meter training course Several meters, I used to climb this tower every day to record all the details of the training, while Pinto was watching it with me only after the training. ”
As for his learning of the Arabic language, he said: “It is very difficult, and at the moment there is an interpreter already. He previously worked with Argentine coach Hector Cuper while he was coaching the Egyptian team.” He talked about his knowledge of the national team, and said: “The team played four games in World Cup Qualifiers 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023, and things were not very well at the level of results, so Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk, who led the Netherlands to the World Cup 2020 final in South Africa, was sacked, and the team's position became difficult, as it needs to win three games from The remaining four are in order to qualify for the next stage of the playoffs, knowing that the team was backed by new players - Fabio Lima, Caio Canedo and Sebastian Tigali who previously played in the Colombian Caldas.
Jerry Tamashiro praised the precautions witnessed by the national team training, and said: «An ideal protocol is applied here during the exercises, as it separates enough distance between each individual, and everyone wears the protective masks except for the players who are training without them, in return the technical staff cannot go to Players' dressing rooms and rehabilitation areas. After the end of the training, we go directly to the hotel, knowing that everyone has a room alone, in contrast, she was tested for Corona virus three times within one week, which is very good to have a great interest in the factors of prevention of the virus, Note that the UAE has very low numbers of Covid-19 infections.