Benfica AGM scandal: fans clash, Vieira blames the past | OneFootball

There are moments of great tension at Benfica’s General Assembly. One of the highlights of the Club of Luz’s electoral life was marked by clashes between supporters, a situation that unfolded when Luís Filipe Vieira took the podium to address some words to the Benfica members. Recall here Rui Costa’s speech.

While he was speaking, Luís Filipe Vieira was booed, with some Benfica members even leaving the Pavilion where the Eagles’ General Assembly was taking place. At that moment, near the spot where the former President was speaking, some members got involved in confrontations.

The General Assembly was, meanwhile, suspended until there are security conditions to proceed. At this time, for example, the result of the voting on the Report and Accounts, which took place during the morning at Benfica’s General Assembly, is still unknown.

Luís Filipe Vieira has already reacted to the events, speaking to CMTV microphones: “This goes back a long way, there’s a group here, connected to ‘Servir o Benfica’, where Benitez and João Mateigas are involved. They were planning and challenged others so that when I spoke, they would leave the room. But let’s talk, calmly. They have to listen… If they boo? Those ones should leave, there have to be rules.”

Bruno Batista, campaign director for Luís Filipe Vieira, issued a statement on the events, which reads as follows: “This has never happened in Benfica’s centenary history. Preventing a member from speaking was only possible because a radical group took control of these assemblies a long time ago. We are applying to Benfica the hate speech we criticized in our rivals. The moral authors of this episode do not dignify the card with which they entered this assembly, nor do they represent Benfica’s unity. The members will know how to judge at the polls.”

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