Arantes Fontes urges fans as Sporting debut in Champions League | OneFootball

Tito Arantes Fontes has made an appeal to all Sporting fans for the team's debut in the Champions League. The former President of the Stromp Group recorded his analysis for the match against Kairat - where Maxi Araújo is expected to return to the starting lineup -, but beforehand, he had the opportunity to share his reading of the victory over Famalicão.

“We completed, last Saturday, the fifth round of the National League. It was going to be an away game, on a difficult, complicated field. And it was. Famalicão is, in fact, a good team, well set up, that knows what it is doing. Furthermore, they had not lost at home since December of last year, that is, nine months ago. And they had not conceded any goals this season”, he told the Club's media.

Happy with the victory on a difficult ground, Tito Arantes Fontes took the opportunity to highlight the debut of Fotis Ioannidis wearing the lion's shirt: “The game ended, with a chance for Ioannidis to make his debut with the lion's shirt. It was a fair victory. With Sporting showing, once again this season, that it knows how to react to adversity and negative results. Go, lions!”, he added.

Regarding the match with Kairat for the Champions League, the former President of the Stromp Group defined the main objectives for the competition and made an appeal to the fans of Sporting: “As President Varandas has already said, with Sporting entering with the goal of overcoming this league phase to access the subsequent levels of this millionaire competition”.

“Our first game, out of the eight we have to play, is already this Thursday, at José Alvalade, against Kairat - champion of its country and the current league leader - from the distant Kazakhstan (a record in the distance of team displacement to compete in any UEFA competition). Go, lions! Everyone to Alvalade!”, concluded Tito Arantes Fontes.

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