″There will have to be another Cup for Porto, for the north of Portugal and for the Aziados″
Pinto da Costa visited the Casa do FC Porto da Afurada.
The president of FC Porto, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, was confident today that the national football camp won the 23rd Cândido de Oliveira Supercup on Saturday.
“Tomorrow [sábado], they will have to score one more Cup for the white and blues, for the north of Portugal and for the aziados. Let’s keep fighting. We can be sure that tomorrow and always we will enter to win in all fields and modalities. The maximum that is not always possible, but we will have the stimulus of your presence”, shot the leader of the dragons, during an emotional speech in São Pedro da Afurada.
The visit to the Casa do FC Porto in the parish of Vila Nova de Gaia, where it was received in apotheosis by months of supporters, Pinto da Costa highlighted having seen an “extraordinary, affectionate and friendly reception”, almost after the club’s ninth double.
“I’ve been here many times and this won’t be the last. I promised that whenever FC Porto were champions [da I Liga], I would come here to fraternize and celebrate with you. Today, here I am and mark it on the calendar: for the new year, it’s guaranteed.
The leading band always the “affection and the love” for the FC who have a fan screen for everyone to fight daily with a few days bulwark”.
“FC Porto feels and vibrates with everything that happens and harms us. That’s why for many years a target to shoot down, but I’m here with you and I don’t have them. Today they are denied by Sérgio Conceição himself – and they are not the least bit ashamed, but we are here.
The blue and white leader accompanied the mayors of the City Council of Gaia, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, and of the Board of the General Assembly of FC Porto, Lourenço Pinto, among other local personalities, of the club and of the Casa do FC Porto da Afurada.
“I am happy that, in the two cities I love the most, Porto Vila Nova de Gaia, I am awarded a Gold Medal in one and a meritorious citizen in the other. Portugal”, concluded Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, without commenting to journalists.
Ségio Conceição’s team makes its official debut in 2023 with the dispute of the 44th edition of the Supercup Cândido de Oliveira against the newly relegated Tondela, the finalist won in the last edition of the Portuguese Cup, on Saturday, at 20:45, in Aveiro.