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The president of the Football League, Pedro Proença, in the presentation of his candidacy for the elections of the Portuguese Federation of Football (FPF)
“Portugal will not exclude the dispute abroad from any of its tests, namely a fully relaunched Super Cup in our sports calendar,” said Pedro Proença, who wants to globalize the Portuguese clubs.
The candidate for the presidency of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) Pedro Proença He presented his program this Monday, which points to the professionalization of the arbitration sector and admits that the Super Cup can be competed abroad.
To speak in the main auditorium of the city of Football, in Oeiras, the former referee and current president of the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), a candidate, who as president of the Club League had already spoken of the possibility of putting the realization of the ‘Final Four’ of the League Cup outside the country, revealed that it intends the superstar in these moldsin a dynamic of remodeling of competitive frames.
“Portugal will not exclude from its field of possibilities the dispute abroad of any of its evidence, namely a Fully relaunched Super Cup In our sports calendar, ”he said, promising globalizing the Portuguese clubs.
Professionalization of arbitration
“A strong federation is not done with weak arbitration or incomprehensible discipline. When you enter the field to compete at the top of our pyramid, there are 22 professional players, professional alternates and training professionals around the countryside. Then there are four who seem to be, but they are not totally professional. And to all this, we add who is in the video arrangement. This mandate that candidate will not end without an absolute professionalization of the arbitration sector, ”he said.
Proença considers that evolution goes through “Implementation of a business model for the management of this sector”which is “dry of this serenity, recognition and vision”, embodied in a national technical direction of arbitration, a body that will intend to implement in the Federation.
“Only with a fully professional arbitration, a 100% dedicated discipline and the two absolutely autonomous interference from other federative bodies is the respect that is long due and for which we are all not to do what we can,” expressed Pedro Proença, who presided over LPFP since early 2014.
“Maximum trust, maximum responsibility”
Pedro Proença stated that leading the FPF “requires competencies of a manager, specific knowledge of the sport and proven union capacity”, recalling the work developed in the referee career and then in the Club League.
“I’m from the field of play, that’s where I come, but that didn’t stop me from studying, learning, licensing and building my own path as manager. In the last decade, at the service of an important slice of the sport, professional football. There we traveled a path of salvation, recovery, growth and aggregation, ”he said.
Despite being unitless of having “any shreds of brightness”, Pedro Proença understands that the likelihood of overcoming the FPF elections “is very high” and ensured that he wants to combine the requirement with prudence in the various football, futsal and football teams .
“We will give stability to technical teams and conditions of excellence to players and players. In no tiles of these resorts will support support and ambition. The requirement will have to be accompanied by prudence. The Federation has undeniable quality selectors, in whom we trust to implement the policy of permanent ambition. The normal and healthy transition from federative management does not need to be accompanied by inefficient revolutions. Maximum confidence, maximum responsibility, ”he said.
Proença He also wants to increase physical activity time in schools, work at the women’s base to get more women trainers and refereesdevelop the FPF together with regional associations and create a ‘explosion’ of federates at the base.
The elections of the federative social agencies for the 2024-2028 quadrennium February 14at a time when Fernando Gomes has been in office since December 17, 2011 and fulfills the third and final term in the lead.
Pedro Proença and Nuno Lobo, current president of the Lisbon Football Association, are the two candidates for Fernando Gomes’s succession as president of the FPF, and had the lists confirmed by the Electoral Commission on January 9.
