"Training is not yet prepared for women. Women's physiology and emotional side are different. Working with 23 women in the locker room is very different. It is necessary to prepare training that is appropriate for women's role. We can have the same ways of working and evolving, but women's training must be for women and done by women. We need to look at them in a different way," appealed the leader.

In the conference "The importance of the academy in the training and success of football coaches in Portugal", organized by Universidade Lusófona, Mónica Jorge believes that there are men with the ability to lead a women's team and there are women without that profile, and the opposite is also true, with women being able to coach men's teams.

Having joined the federation in 2001, then still as assistant coach of the national team, Mónica Jorge pointed out "23 years of much learning and adaptability", taking on the main role between 2007 and 2011, before giving way to Francisco Neto.

"When I joined, it was a team used to losing, with thrashings. This was transformed and we broke records, climbed the world ranking and created a team capable of attracting attention and being a reference in women's football in Portugal. It didn't even have a goalkeeper coach. With players of Portuguese descent and a lot of demand, we managed to start winning games and going on television programs. There was a president who had the audacity to invite a woman to be executive director of the FPF," she also recalled.

At the same conference, which also featured Rui Vitória, Nelo Vingada considered that technological evolution "has been going at excessive speed" in recent years.

"Football has evolved faster than the human dimension in recent years. Technological evolution has been going faster than it should. As long as it can be played by people, football will continue to be the number one sport in the world. In my opinion, we are going at excessive speed," warned the coach.

Aged 72 and currently retired from official competitions, after a long career with stints in nine different foreign countries, Nelo Vingada recalled some episodes from it to explain that the ideal is for the team to be "the coach's image".

"At half-time of a game, an Arab prince ordered me to replace a player. I didn't do it, we won the game, but the next day I was fired. I lost a very large bonus, which I didn't even claim, but I felt proud of what I did. I maintained my integrity. A coach's greatest pride is to look at the team and feel that it is his image, like a second family," he said to the audience of young people.

Read Also: "All clubs in Portugal must have women's football" (Portuguese version)

Read Also: "The girls only knew Cristiano Ronaldo. Now it's 'crazy'..." (Portuguese version)