"Go home": Fábio Martins teases Sérgio Conceição over his outburst | OneFootball

Fábio Martins was recently a guest on Liga Portugal’s ‘Sem Filtros’ podcast and, in a video released this Thursday, he recounted a curious episode under Sérgio Conceição’s orders, after arriving late to a Sporting de Braga training session because he had… fallen asleep.

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

“When I knocked on the coach’s door, I only had time to say, ‘Coach, I overslept.’ He immediately started, ‘You overslept? Then go back home again. Go sleep.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I got a real dressing-down 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 feeling of coming here. You shouldn’t even sleep, let alone oversleep,’” recounted the Al-Hazm forward.

It should be noted that Fábio Martins did practically all of his youth development at FC Porto and, in 2014/15, moved to Sporting de Braga, where he got a chance with the Minho club’s first team, then coached by the current Al-Ittihad manager, champions of Saudi Arabia – where the Portuguese international also transferred after spells with Al-Shabab and Al-Khaleej.

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