A BOLA – What can Sporting be worried about? Leça coach responds (Portuguese Cup)
Luís Pinto, 32 years old, coaches Leça with absolute success, leads Serie C of the Portuguese Championship and places the club in the fourth tier in the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup, honoring history and the Leceiro parchments. I gained the status of giant tombs with the removal of Arouca and Gil Vicente from the Jamor access test, now Sporting is not just a media gift. The semi-finals live in the mind.
«Let’s try, let’s do everything to make this possible. We have a path based on knockout in knockout with a lot of ambition and ability to overcome by these players. We will try to do the same with a lot of respect for the opponent. But we want to continue to make history and eliminate another team from the League”, warned Luís Pinto, regretting that the game will not be played in Leça da Palmeira due to the emotional charge.
“Retreat a little from the nature of competition, in which a little one looms large in your home. We have very sad fans and we feel that too. But let’s transfer the possibilities that we would have in Leça to Paços de Ferreira. It is not this transfer of the game that will take advantage of us from discussing the game and the result », clarified the young coach, trying to feel the feelings of Leon.
«What could worry about Sporting? Go to penalty shootout, if it’s a penalty shootout they’re worried! », he joked, always carrying a very relaxed countenance.
«On the other side, there is a technical team that has already passed through these levels, this brings them knowledge of what is happening here for days. It’s a time when the quality of the players can be demonstrated, the quality of the staff can be demonstrated. The club is again being talked about by a lot of people and at these moments it is obvious that all of this can catapult players to one last sprint, one last stand, and other levels of concentration. These moments can all help one transcend that they succeed. Sporting’s technical team, two years ago, was at Casa Pia and knows that on this side there will be ambition and desire to continue making history”, stressed Luís Pinto.