FC Porto's youth project: bring in talent and win | OneFootball

The national under-19 champions presented the trophy to the FC Porto Museum, and it was with “enormous pride” that André Villas-Boas welcomed the protagonists of “a title that had eluded us for seven years.” After highlighting “the great involvement of the youth academy management,” the president praised the work of a coach capable of “leading the entire project” and challenged the players to follow the example of Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima and André Miranda: “May more players from this generation, which we want to regard as golden, also make their debut for the first team.”

The merit of the structure“They were the ones who delivered the title to FC Porto; it was more that than my own major involvement. There was great involvement from the youth academy management, from academy director José Tavares, Tiago Madureira, Henrique Monteiro and Filipe Ribeiro, people who work with our academy on a daily basis.”

The coach’s merit“Then there is the technical side, with Sérgio (Ferreira) leading this entire project. We won a title that had escaped us for seven years, since that generation that left its mark on FC Porto, not only for what it won—the last under-19 title and the Youth League—but also because many of those talents moved up to FC Porto’s first team and were very successful as professional players, namely Diogo Costa. So I feel enormous pride in the path these players are taking.”

Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima and André Miranda“From this team, three players have already moved up; three have already made their debut for the first team, which is a good sign. May more players from this generation, which we want to regard as golden, also make their debut for the first team, and may this always be FC Porto’s youth development project: bringing through new talents, winning, restoring titles to the Club’s honours list and winning over more and more fans.”

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