Reinaldo Teixeira: No club will ever be favoured or harmed deliberately | OneFootball

Reinaldo Teixeira responded to the controversy regarding the rescheduling of the Arouca-FC Porto match. At the end of the Ordinary General Assembly of the League, held this Tuesday at the organization’s headquarters in Porto, the official assured that, under his presidency, the League “will never have a premeditated attitude to benefit or harm any club”.

These remarks come in the wake of the editorial in the Dragões magazine, in which the president of FC Porto accused the League of “irresponsibility” and pointed to “erratic calendars, late decisions, and biased interpretations of the regulations”. Asked about the matter, Reinaldo Teixeira said he respects the opinion of the FC Porto leader, but highlighted the support he has received.

“I am pleased that several fans, members, and associates of FC Porto, who have known me for many years, called me in solidarity, even apologizing for some attitudes,” emphasized Reinaldo Teixeira.

According to an official source from the League, Reinaldo Teixeira was not directly referring to the statements or opinions of André Villas-Boas regarding the rescheduling of the match, but rather to the messages of protest he received.

Regarding the process, the president of the League explained that the decision was made “in strict compliance with the regulations”, with the date of September 29 being chosen because it only required the alteration of one match, Famalicão vs Rio Ave.

“The only available date, which the clubs did not agree on, was October 30. On that date, the gap between the matches was the same as this Monday. That October 30 date would have required changing four matches. The September 29 date only required changing one match, as you know, Famalicão-Rio Ave. And that’s what we did. Meanwhile, FC Porto filed a complaint and the complaint arrived one day, and we had ten days to respond. We replied within the following hours. I don’t know if it was three, four, five hours later. We replied. To this day, we are convinced that what we did is what the regulations allow us to do. To say, as I heard, why didn’t you switch the order and have the match be FC Porto-Arouca? The regulations do not allow it. Why didn’t you hold the match in another stadium? The regulations do not allow it. It was scheduled for that stadium, the match had to be played in that stadium. There is total openness to work on the regulations so that, more and more, they are transparent and clear,” clarified the president of Liga Portugal.

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