João Gabriel backs Benfica's alleged decision on Pedro Proença: suits him | OneFootball

Pedro Proença sat in the stands at the Estádio da Luz to watch the match between Benfica and Hearts (6-1) on Thursday night. Even so, and unlike what usually happened, the FPF president did not sit next to Rui Costa, having been placed several rows behind. For João Gabriel, this was the right response given by the Eagles to the recent controversy involving the former referee.

"Pedro Proença discovered today at the Luz that Benfica’s protocol department finally recognizes the place he deserves in the stadium. From the first to the sixth row. Some messages don’t need audio", began writing the former Benfica communications director on the social network LinkedIn.

The former club employee, 60, reinforced his opinion. "The sixth row may have been Benfica’s first good public response to the audios and everything Proença has represented for SL Benfica. An even better response would be to bar him from entry, but for lack of anything better, the sixth row suits him well. An FPF president who allows himself to be publicly humiliated in this way and remains in his seat for the full 90 minutes also says a lot about the character the audios revealed," he fired.

Rui Costa, motivated by the public sharing of audio clips of the current FPF president. In one of those audios, the former referee makes comments about the legal cases in which Benfica was involved when he was president of Liga Portugal.

, it can be heard, in a conversation that was allegedly held with Fernando Seara, who at the time served as president of the Eagles’ General Assembly Board.

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