"Go home": Fábio Martins jokes about Sérgio Conceição’s telling-off | OneFootball

Fábio Martins was recently a guest on the ‘Sem Filtros’ podcast by Liga Portugal and, in a video released this Thursday, he shared a curious episode under the management of Sérgio Conceição, after arriving late to a Sporting de Braga training session because he had… overslept.

“Sérgio Conceição is tough. I remember some serious scoldings I got from him. It happens. It’s part of it. I was a kid, almost only training with the first team. I would only play with the B team when I didn’t play with the A team. There was one day, I don’t know what happened. I always set my alarm, but one day I completely turned it off. I overslept to the point that the club’s driver had to come ring my doorbell to wake me up. To be at the club by 8 o’clock, I would wake up at 7, but by then it was already around 9,” he began to recount.

“When I knocked on the coach’s door, I only had time to say ‘Coach, I overslept.’ He immediately said, ‘You overslept? Then go back home again. Go sleep.’ And I thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I got a real telling-off there… He told me, ‘You’re a kid. You can hardly sleep. You come to the first team and you should stay awake with the excitement of coming here. You shouldn’t even sleep, let alone oversleep,’” continued the Al-Hazm forward.

It’s worth noting that Fábio Martins did almost all of his training at FC Porto and, in 2014/15, moved to Sporting de Braga, where he got an opportunity in the main team of the Minho club, then managed by the current coach of Al-Ittihad, the Saudi Arabian champion club – to which the Portuguese international also transferred, after spells at Al-Shabab and Al-Khaleej.

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