Bruno de Carvalho: Vieira is a liar, I led the football revolution | OneFootball

Bruno de Carvalho took to social media to deny the statements made by Luís Filipe Vieira about the choice of leadership for the League of Clubs.

In an interview with CNN this week, the former president of Benfica and candidate for the club's direct elections stated that he participated in a 2015 meeting with Pinto da Costa and other representatives to decide who would assume the presidency of the League of Clubs, a meeting which, according to LF Vieira, did not include Sporting.

“The ones who led the revolution in Portuguese football from the League were me and Pinto da Costa. I spoke with the president and told him: ‘President, we need to sit at the table and solve the League problem once and for all.’ It was me, Mr. Pinto da Costa, António Salvador and Júlio Mendes, president of Vitória de Guimarães. We went to a hotel in Coimbra. ‘Let's solve the League problem, with one condition: in the League's social bodies there is not a single director from FC Porto and Benfica. Agree? I agree Luís Filipe'”, began the former Benfica leader, to CNN, assuring that Pinto da Costa asked for him to choose the president.

“Luís Duque was chosen and I called because he could make a good president. He didn't believe what he was hearing. ‘You could be the next president of the League’, we said and kept that until the end. No one spoke and no one knew about this meeting. António Salvador chose the President of the General Assembly”, LF Vieira recalled, before attacking Pedro Proença.

“That's how it worked, until one day Pedro Proença told me he wanted to talk to me and that he was going to run for president of the League and said he already had the agreement of Pinto da Costa. I doubted it, but okay, I would talk to him later. Unfortunately, I confirmed it. There was a phantom who gave this agreement that turned Pinto da Costa around. From then on, Pedro Proença controlled football”, concluded Luís Filipe Vieira.

Bruno de Carvalho, former president of Sporting, repudiated these statements and, on Instagram, stated that Luís Filipe Vieira is lying.

“This man would be a great acquisition for Benfica. In fact, the conversation between me and Pinto da Costa when Benfica wanted Luís Duque (and FC Porto) was not Proença's victory! I just wasn't there personally because I was out with Sporting. This guy lying is Champions League”, wrote Bruno de Carvalho.

Luís Filipe Vieira, Rui Costa, João Noronha Lopes, João Diogo Manteigas, Cristóvão Carvalho and Martim Mayer are the candidates for the presidency of Benfica. The elections take place on October 25, 2025.

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