OPINION
Opinion of João Rosado. The former president of Benfica and future candidate knows that little or nothing has changed in the direction.
More than a month is still missing to complete the first round of the championship and the communications’ derby has begun to return Portuguese football to its worst times, living up to reputation or lack of it.
Sporting filed a complaint to the discipline council, drawing attention to what it considers to have been a direct insult of Bruno Lage to Fábio Veríssimo in the final moments of the Super Cup, lost to a Benfica who had manifested himself against the appointment of the referee who directed the final of the Algarve.
Anyone who believed that the new generation of leaders, shaped in the three largest emblems and the main sports institutions, would trigger a revolution in customs and posture, may begin to repent of this vow of hope.
For reasons that are obvious in this world, the always in focus Luís Filipe Vieira (LFV) has never been part of these believers. On the contrary, the man who for two decades has taken power in light, and not only made it clear that he intends to use all his strength to reoccup the place he left four years ago.
Deep down, this is exactly what it is, no one is allowed to go to the game using the weapons that are available… on and off the field. Whatever the protagonist or the club in question, anything goes to press, condition, mobilize public opinion and obtain the preference in the voting report.
If it were not in a pre-election period, it is to be admitted that Rui Costa hesitated to sign the very old statement, just as it perhaps revealed another caution in conducting the dossier regarding the centralization of television rights. In practice, both the current and the former president of the incarnates are working together, as they did years in the light.
Despite the considerations directed at its former Director General, Vieira, with the inflamed and supermuscular discourse that again fills the headlines, it is only validating the hardening of Portugal’s assumed positions by the one that succeeded it in office. Providing the actions of urban “guerrilla” that few can embody and at the same time offering Rui Costa the advantage that results from a presidency that also knows how to fake another softness, LFV mainly undermines the fragmented opposition.
On October 25, Benfica members begin to choose those who would like to see in the lead and until then they will have enough time to realize that the compass that guides candidates with many kilometers on the road is the same that marks the path of those who do not deflect a millimeter of the purpose of gaining at any price.
As long as some dare to question the discipline council criteria and others compare insults to mere “outbursts”, he still expects Pedro Proença’s belonging to the accusation of having prepared a plan to “buy” the unique candidacy from the Portuguese Football Federation.
Here it is seen that the author of this accusation, such Luís Filipe Vieira, is just one of so many equal profiles and deserves to be as forgiven as everyone else who thinks the reputation is written better with communications that should never have reached the first letter.
