Porto FC president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said this Sunday that Benfica leader Rui Costa is the father of his predecessor Luis Filipe Vieira after a new involvement of “incarnations” involving the “dragons”.
“For me, [o processo] this represents nothing and is not surprising, not least because we cannot forget that the president of Benfica was the Dauphin Luis Filipe Vieira. I have known him since that time under Vieira, who has always represented him as his dauphin and successor, and he supports a certain school, which has also been in Benfica since that time. Naturally, everyone follows their master, ”he shot reporters on the sidelines of the renewal ceremony for the defender and captain Pepe, who extended the contract for another season, until June 2024.
Benfica announced on Friday that they had taken part in the Disciplinary Council (CD) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), stressing that the statements made two days earlier by the Porto leader were “aimed at training referees” before the end of the First League. .
In a regular Dragões editorial, Pinto da Costa expressed his belief in the title being restored “provided that sporting truth prevails in all games, which has not always been the case this year”, while Porto is in second place, with 70 points, one behind the leaders of Benfica, who received Estoril Praia this Sunday in the match of the 29th round.
“I returned to writing the same editorial quite naturally and without any fear of punishment. I repeat: whoever has a school that has directed him in a certain way may find it offensive. It doesn’t make much sense, because [Rui Costa] he was never my playmate. When I played Infesta, it didn’t exist yet. He was a player of a different level, but I had more contacts when I was Dauphin and heir to Vieira’s legacy. I’m not surprised at all,” the president of the Dragons added.
On Thursday, FPF CD confirmed that it had initiated disciplinary proceedings against FC Porto’s SAD, administrator Vítor Bailly and coach Sergio Conceição, taking into account the involvement represented by Benfica and the Federal Arbitration Council (CA).
On April 14, in anticipation of the reception of Santa Clara red lantern by FC Porto, in the 28th round of the championship, which the Blue and Whites won 2-1, Sergio Conceição mentioned that “there can’t be two weights” . and two measures” by referee teams in matches involving the first two placed in the competition.
Vítor Baia, former footballer and current administrator of the SAD and vice president of the Blue and Whites, asked on the same day “not to repeat the mistakes that affect the results.”
“Of course, there have always been mistakes, and I say in an editorial to hope that there will not be mistakes affecting the results, as it was this year, and everyone knows it. I did not say that there were mistakes on purpose, and mistakes due to dishonesty. mistakes, because people make mistakes. Now you know very well that there were mistakes. I don’t even need to mention Vitoria de Guimarães Benfica [0-0, na oitava ronda] or in Vizela-Benfica [vitória dos ‘encarnados’ por 0-2, na 22.ª]. These are mistakes,” admitted Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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