“FC Porto brand” in focus in AS: “How is a Vitinha made?” | OneFootball

AS published a report this Tuesday titled “How is a Vitinha made?”, highlighting the many talents who have emerged from FC Porto’s academy in an attempt to understand what formula has allowed them to come through. The Spanish newspaper spoke to João Brandão, coach of FC Porto B, who explained that the goal of the Dragons’ youth ranks is to develop more players like Vitinha.

“It is possible to create more players like him, but there is only one Vitinha; there is only one Rodrigo Mora; Rúben Neves is also unique. I think originality is what we need to understand, and it is dangerous to want a kid to be a copy of another. That does not exist in football,” says the 43-year-old coach.

Brandão also stresses that all these examples share the “FC Porto stamp”: “If we talk about Vitinha or the generation of talents emerging at FC Porto, such as Rodrigo Mora or Mateus Mide, it is interesting that they all have something very much in common, which is FC Porto’s values. Being highly competitive, passionate about the game, about Porto’s style of football.”

Turning his focus back to the PSG midfielder, the coach highlighted what led the player to reach such a high level.

“He was different from the others because of his mentality. Obviously, he has talent, but all the kids here at the academy do too. He was different because of his ambition, his passion for football. He used to arrive at training and talk about the match he had watched the day before. He was passionate about the game and about what the media were doing or still doing. He became extremely frustrated when he could not play the way he wanted or when he was left out of the team,” he says.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.