Rui Borges on the big-club issue he found at Sporting: it was tough... | OneFootball

Rui Borges took part in the panel “Coaching in High Performance,” held as part of the National Association of Football Coaches (ANTF) Forum in Albufeira, where he addressed the challenges he has faced since taking charge of Sporting. The coach mainly highlighted the difficulty of implementing his ideas due to the packed competitive schedule.

The manager explained that he found a demanding environment, marked by pressure for results and a lack of time to work on the pitch: "When I arrived at Sporting, full of desire, I came to fight to be champion and, suddenly, I want to train and I can’t train. I have game after game and I have to win. It was a huge difficulty for me," he said.

Rui Borges described himself as “obsessed with training,” stressing the importance of daily work in the team’s development. According to the coach, the absence of regular sessions made it harder to prepare every phase of the game, a situation made worse by injuries and the need to adapt to the available squad.

The coach admitted, however, that the demands of the schedule force him to make choices: "Sometimes it’s difficult to manage everything, so I focus on what is essential, within what is an idea, within what we can or cannot adjust strategically as well," he pointed out.

Rui Borges also highlighted the importance of weeks with more time available for training: "We work on something that is ours and then we get to the match and we are better, because we trained it. When we don’t train, we start losing some things, small habits, because we are not training systematically," he concluded.

Sporting’s coach - who was recently analyzed - took part in the panel in question alongside Carlos Carvalhal and Paulo Fonseca, who joined by videoconference, in a session that closed the event with more than a thousand coaches in attendance.

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