Ex-Sporting player: Winning the Taça de Portugal was bittersweet | OneFootball

Oceano, former captain of Sporting, recently recalled some moments with the lion on his chest, especially the conquest of the Portuguese Cup in the 1994/1995 season. The former midfielder, who at the time received the trophy individually, remembers that "he didn’t want to climb the stairs alone".

"Lifting the Cup for Sporting was my peak, but I didn’t want to climb the stairs alone. I think in these kinds of things, victory is not individual. Football is a team sport," he said, appearing on the videocast ‘90+3’ from the newspaper A Bola.

Oceano also did not leave out an old episode shared with Pinto da Costa. At the time, the then president of Porto invited the former midfielder, while he was still playing for Sporting, to join the blue and whites.

"I went to Antas on purpose to thank him, but I refused because I was Sporting’s captain". The response from the Porto leader was: "I already liked you as an athlete, now I love you as a man," Oceano highlighted, in one of the high points of the conversation.

Cruyff wanted me, I only didn’t go to Barça because Real Sociedad didn’t let me", admitting that he even dreamed of playing moves with Romário, Koeman, and Guardiola.

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