Miguel Coelho: “Winning the Super Cup feels exactly like this” | OneFootball

Miguel Coelho, coach of FC Porto’s women’s volleyball team, celebrated winning the Super Cup after a 3-1 victory over SC Braga in the final played in Santo Tirso. Amid the pride of lifting the trophy, the responsibility of representing the club, and the recognition of the sport, he especially highlighted the support from the stands and revealed: “It felt like we were playing at the Dragão Arena.”

In a packed Porto section from one end to the other, Miguel Coelho found the image that best summed up the victory. More than focusing on the result, the coach placed the fans at the heart of the triumph and made the enthusiasm in the stands a demand for the team’s daily work.

Speaking about yet another trophy won by FC Porto, the coach immediately linked the team’s success to the presence of Porto supporters. The celebration came with a clear sense of responsibility.

“Winning the Super Cup tastes like this: a packed section from one end to the other. You can see so many FC Porto fans. It felt like we were playing at the Dragão Arena, and that gives us a great sense of responsibility to work every day,” he said. “I feel immense pride and great personal satisfaction in working at a club with supporters like these. We work for all of them. It is very little for ourselves and much more for them.”

The trophy thus became associated with a sense of unity between team and crowd. In Miguel Coelho’s words, personal satisfaction cannot be separated from the duty to live up to those who follow the team.

The coach also highlighted an event organized during the week, presenting it as a memorable moment in better understanding the weight of representing FC Porto. In his words, the initiative reinforced both pride and a sense of responsibility.

“This great Club has a name. This week, the board, together with Tiago Gouveia, João Cruz, Fernando Sá, Tiago Rocha and Filipe Santos, organized an event that gave us a great sense of pride and responsibility and left a mark on us,” he explained. “We came to better understand what it means to represent FC Porto. It is a huge source of pride and personal satisfaction to represent these people every day.”

The reference to the event broadens the meaning of the achievement beyond the final itself. For Miguel Coelho, representing the club means better understanding what it stands for and carrying that identity into the team’s daily routine.

The growth of women’s volleyball was another point emphasized by the coach. Miguel Coelho framed the respect shown by the fans as the result of the space the sport has earned.

“The respect the fans have for women’s volleyball in Portugal is the respect women’s volleyball must have for the way it has earned its place and the right to be on the big stages and in major arenas like this one.”

The final message pointed to a sport that, through its own journey, now claims a place on the biggest stages. In Santo Tirso, the atmosphere in the stands served as a concrete expression of that recognition.

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