“If Ruben stays, I have no doubt that Sporting will become the hegemon of Portuguese football in the coming years,” Luis Filipe Vieira, former Benfica president, said on TVI on Wednesday. At a time when there is a lot of talk about the succession of the coach in Alvalade, Vieira guarantees that if he were president of Sporting he would do everything to keep him. “I assure you that he did not quit and he was not lacking in anything, that’s for sure. The works of Ruben Amorim and Hugo Viana deserve attention.” The coach, after retiring as a football player, was close to heading one of Benfica’s youth teams. “They presented him with a project that he didn’t think made sense in his head. The only mistake was that I was inside Seishal and did not talk to me. They told him how Benfica worked, but it didn’t make sense in his head. Pedro Mil-Jomens and Pedro Marquez spoke to him. And when he called me, he had already signed a contract with Braga. You should have called me. He didn’t call me and went to Braga,” Luis Filipe Vieira said in an interview with CMTV in June 2022, saying that if he had been Benfica president, he would have bypassed the termination clause. [30 milhões de euros] pick up Amorim from Sporting.