The president of Sporting widely praised the new coach, who now takes the place left by João Pereira. The former coach, according to Varandas, was harmed by the wave of injuries that affected the squad, but also by “extremely unfortunate arbitrations”.
Sporting presented this Thursday the a man who Frederico Varandas, president of the ‘lions’, consider being the one indicated to reverse the less positive moment of the Alvalade group.
Before starting the presentation of the new Leo coach, Frederico Varandas addressed a “special message” to which took on an “extremely complicated and challenging challenge”.
After, together with the former football player, realizing that “it didn’t work out”, he considered it time to follow a different path.:
“We knew about the difficulties, we knew about the emotional shock brutal due to the departure of coach Ruben Amorim. We believe that João Pereira truly experienced what Murphy’s Law is: he had a wave of injurieswhich, since I have been president of this club, we have never had.”
In addition to the path of injuries he points out, Varandas also states that the “extremely unfortunate arbitrations” also did not contribute to the coach’s success.
In retrospect, continues the president of the ‘lions’, “João Pereira couldn’t be João Pereira” and was unable to ensure that “the assembled machine continued rolling exactly to the ex-coach’s standard”.
“He is a coach who has advanced his career by leaps and bounds”
As for Rui Borges, Frederico Varandas believes he could “be Rui Borges”. O new coach of ‘green and white’, reveals“was on the Leo radar” for over a year.
“He is a coach who has worked his way up the career ladder. He did the wrist all over his facereira, starting at the modest Mirandela, working its way up through various projects, various increasingly demanding clubs and always, always with your idea game.”
The leader of the Alvalade emblem praises the 43-year-old coach and highlights his “not only his competence technique and tactics” as well as the fact that he is a man who leads “by example and his simple speech”.
“A man whose men follow wherever he tells them to go”, he adds.
Rui Borges arrives at Sporting from Vitória SC in exchange for 4.1 million euros.
He is contractually linked to the green and white emblem until June 2026, and the contract can be renewed for another season if he wins the title. championship.
At 43 years old, Rui Borges reaches a ‘great’, after starting the season at Vitória SC, which remains in sixth place, following the fifth place achieved with Moreirense, with the Trás-os-Montes native from Mirandela also coaching clubs such as Académico Viseu, Académica, Nacional, Vilafranquense and Mafra.
The Mirandela-born coach thus replaces João Pereira, who took over Sporting’s technical command in Novemberbut not continue the good moment of the ‘lions’.
