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With a reserved spot in Benfica - Fenerbahçe, Amar Dedic continues to receive many praises since he arrived at the Clube da Luz.

August 25, 2025 | 22:21 |

Signed in the current summer transfer window, Amar Dedic has been one of the standout figures at the start of the season for Benfica. Master of the right side of the defense, the Bosnian has been the target of many compliments, as was the case with Carlos Leal, who highlighted the athlete before the match with Fenerbahçe.

In an interview given to the newspaper O Jogo - where he had also spoken about Amoura - Carlos Leal began by talking about the athlete's intensity: “It’s his trademark, which he gained at Red Bull, it’s the group’s trademark. It’s a guarantee of intensity, courage, and the will to go forward [against the opponent], without hesitation. It’s a style he learned since he arrived at RB Salzburg.”

At the Austrian club since he was 14, Dedic was taught early on to have a more direct approach to the game, as the Portuguese official explained to the sports daily: “He’s not a player, as he learned at RB Salzburg, to go around in circles, they don’t like that, it’s very high intensity.”

However, he didn’t stop there and admitted that with Dedic, Benfica will always have an athlete who will give everything on the field: “With him, it’s always about giving, seeking depth, even without the ball. A full-back like that, capable of disrupting a game, whether going wide or into inner areas, is very important, sometimes on the wings is where there’s more space, the field is getting tighter.”

“He seeks for every movement, every action, to have an impact and make the opponent move, even if it’s to open spaces for teammates, the goal is to force the opponent to make a decision and then exploit it,” Carlos Leal added, in conversation with O Jogo.

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