After leaving Benfica, star on Al Nassr spell: it's been very... | OneFootball

Now playing for Al Nassr’s women’s team, Portuguese international midfielder Andreia Faria, currently with the national team training camp, recently spoke about the competitiveness in Saudi Arabia, the fact that she still has not met Cristiano Ronaldo, and her strong connection with Benfica, the club she represented for seven years.

"It is a league that is still evolving. It has progressed just as the Portuguese league progressed and it has all the conditions to do so. It is also a league that allows you to develop other characteristics that here in Liga BPI were a little more hidden. Without a doubt, it has been very positive," said the former Benfica player about the Saudi women’s league, at a press conference with the national team.

Regarding the fact that she still has not met Cristiano Ronaldo, Andreia Faria said: "I hope that happens before the end of my contract. It will happen, no doubt. The men’s team is in Riyadh and the women’s team is in Dammam. It’s a four-hour drive, every weekend we fly to Riyadh and return to Dammam, which does not make things easy because we end up not having much free time to stay in Riyadh."

As the most decorated player in Benfica’s history, Andreia Faria - who recently won the league title - spoke about the club she still follows. "Benfica was my home for seven years and it is a club I love, with which I will always have a special connection. There is always a desire to follow them and know how they are doing. I end up watching most of the matches live and I hope they can now achieve the two objectives they still have left," she concluded.

In closing, turning attention back to the national team and the double round of World Cup qualifying matches, the former Benfica player stressed: "It has been a very positive season for me, I come to the national team full of confidence and I also want to help the group in that sense. Latvia are ultimately a competitive team that played their first two matches away from home and scored in both. [Latvia and Slovakia] are teams that want to come out all guns blazing and we have to approach that with the utmost seriousness and give our best to win both matches".

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