″The sporting situation in Portugal did not change overnight″
Next COP intends last level to the last Olympic cycle in the mandatory
The governing bodies of the Portugal Olympic Committee (COP) took office today with the primary objective of “maintaining the last defined level” of the results of the Olympic cycle, José Manuel Constantino said the re-elected president.
“From the point of view of sporting results, [queremos] Reinforcing the training of coaches and fed to the training cycle of preparation coaches, at the end of athlete training actions, the manager.
Outside the specific scope, of “cultural nature”, José Manuel Constantino also intends to “start work on the house of olympism and the Olympic museum”, with the intention of, “if not leaving it completed, at least leaving it started during the mandate”.
In the March 10 election, José Manuel Constantino was elected to a third re-elected term of the body with 100% of the votes cast, adding up to 153 out of a possible 182, in a vote in which the 71-year-old leader had no competition.
“I feel the recognition for the work we carried out in the previous Olympic cycle, but the responsibility of the expressive vote, which creates expectations regarding the height of this work. I hope to be up to this challenge too”, stressed the leader.
The principal, until the first quarter of 2025, will be more difficult to cause very small” and because it happens “context different from years different from years”, with a pandemic situation and the armed in Europe creating future problems.
“I hope it’s an equal regress solution between the two states, that it’s a fair solution to the relations between the two states and that it’s defined as the absolute impact of the two athletes being evaluated between the two states. have negative effects on our sports system, which is already, in itself, a weak and weaker system than the others”, he said.
Regarding relations with the Government, José Manuel Constantino hopes that “there may be some approximation with the purpose of not existing” between the COP’s proposal and that of the previous Government, there would not be “any distance”, although he stressed “inflexibility”.
“The sporting situation in Portugal did not change overnight for the sustainability of the results of the day and they have no political interests or commitments to mitigate these obstacles, structural problems are present”, he stressed, in his speech.
On the other hand, the speech of the State of Sport and Youth (SEJD), João Paulo Rebelo, who also attended the ceremony, at the Centro Cultural de Belém, stressed that he always lived well with the “critical, but fair” assessment made by Constantino .
“We should all, in the meantime, value the sport more. I feel a clear conscience on my part. I believe they will recognize that there was always, on my part, an openness to discussion and problem solving”, chilled the governor.
João Paulo Rebelo recalled an exchange “always respectful on both sides, with disagreement”, considering that the sport was much better in the sectors that “more and better knew how to deal with a pandemic crisis”, recognizing, however, difficulties.
“Surely soon we will have news for the COP, which will be the news that the COPrá to continue its work. They will not follow a date. their best work”, he shot, at the end of the intervention.
José Manuel Constantino will have the continuity of Artur Lopes and Vicente Araújo in the vice-presidency reinforced with João Paulo Villas-Boas, Sameiro Araújo Ulisses Pereira, instead of Rosa Mota, António Aleixo and Hermínio Loureiro, while Marçal Grilo returns to head the Ethics Council and Leandro Silva the Fiscal Council.
Born in Santarém, Constantino was elected to the COP for the first time on March 26, 2013, succeeding Vicente Moura, winning 92 votes, compared to 67 for rival Marques da Silva, and re-elected on February 23, 2017, with 144, here solo.