The President of the General Council of the University of Porto, Fernando Freire de Sousa, was this Saturday appointed as the first member of the Supreme Council of FC Porto, in connection with the candidacy of Andre Villas-Boas for second place in national football.
“His competence, smoothness and seriousness, the restraint and calm with which he approaches every mission he undertakes and the way he is always on the side of decisions, especially because he knows how to lead a team, coupled with his unwavering politeness. This is more than sufficient guarantee that we will have a new, renewed Supreme Council that will restore its original spirit and produce results that will strengthen FC Porto,” explained the former FC Porto coach at a meeting at the campaign headquarters “Porto”. This is Porto’s candidacy in Harbour.
Former President of the Northern Regional Commission for Coordination and Development (CCDR-N) between 2016 and 2020, Fernando Freire de Sousa was Secretary of State for Competitiveness and Internationalization in the XIII Constitutional Government from 1996 to 1997 and shared his career and professional relationships. between university studies and business management.
“He has an impeccable career in public life and this busy life has never prevented him from being available to FC Porto,” confirmed Andre Villas-Boas, citing his candidate’s previous work in the Supreme Council and the SAD Advisory Board.
Fernando Freire de Souza, 71, said he had “immense and eternal gratitude” to the current management of Pinto da Costa, but admitted that “the times are incompatible with the irrelevant quest to maintain exhausted methods and the “status quo”. “.
“It is from books and practice that there is no organization capable of surviving and reproducing itself on a large scale based on choices based on a strict continuity of situations that become intolerable due to sheer obsolescence. There are hidden games, poorly put together messes, conflicting promises and untimeliness, inaccurate and elusive reports, unimaginable achievements and unacceptable grabs,” he noted.
The President of the General Council of the University of Porto and the current Vice-President of the Casa da Música do Porto will accompany Ana Cristina Costa, Cristiana Vieira, Vitória Matos, Joana Carvalho and Catarina Bras Marques, who have already been announced as members of André Villas candidacy – Good luck to the High Council, the advisory body of the FC “Porto”.
“A more creative project needs to be implemented with the deep value of strategic and decision-making independence, financial and organizational health, eclecticism and a structured and gradual return to the hegemony of football,” he noted, arguing that the Supreme Council should encourage the process of legislative review “at the highest possible level participation”, which leads to important decisions for the club and modern and transparent management.
Fernando Freire de Souza and André Villas-Boas spoke together with António Tavares, proposed for the post of head of the General Assembly Council, and Angelino Ferreira, head of the list of the Financial-Disciplinary Council and former financial administrator of FC Porto SAD.
This quartet initialed the final signature of the terms of office of the candidate “There is only one Porto”, whose signatures and names chosen for the leadership of each corporate organization will be handed over on Tuesday to José Lourens Pinto, leader of the Council of the General Assembly. .
André Villas-Boas will compete against Pinto da Costa, 15 consecutive terms as FC Porto president and the leader with the most titles and longevity in world football, as well as businessman Nuno Lobo, the defeated candidate in the 2020 elections. to a leadership position. of the club, which will take place on April 27 at the Dragao stadium in Porto.
The composition of the High Council will be contested by these three candidates, as well as by the independent movement that four years ago elected three of the body’s 20 effective members and which is again led by lawyer and university professor Miguel Bras da Cunha.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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