Selfie with Benfica scarf in Porto ended my playing days | OneFootball

, former Porto player, recounted an episode that changed his path in the youth ranks of the blue and white club. The defender played for the Dragons in the youth divisions before leaving for Sporting in 2016/17. The now 28-year-old Noah (Armenia) player described the surreal episode he experienced.

"I was a Porto junior player and my father was the agent of Rui Vitória (Mohamed Afzal), who at the time was the coach of Benfica. My championship was coming to an end. Needless to say, there is a deadly rivalry between Porto and Benfica. In 2015/16, Benfica became champions and on the day Benfica played the title match, I was driving to Lisbon with two friends", he began, in an interview with Expresso.

A photo with a friend ended up changing his path: "Ever since I signed for Porto, I truly supported the club, it was Porto I wanted to win, it was my club at the time. But, as I said, I was in the car with two friends, taking one of them to Lisbon. She was going to watch the match and was taking a Benfica scarf with her. I ended up being a bit naïve. We took a selfie, it was something that was supposed to stay between us, I even said, ‘don’t post this anywhere, because I’m a Porto player and I can’t take these kinds of photos.’ She said it was just to keep, just for us".

However, the photo in question was made public: "But, meanwhile, she sent the selfie to some friend and the photo started to circulate and spread, we all know how social media and the internet work. It became a huge problem, that photo ended up everywhere, with the fans, the management, and people saw it as a lack of respect. I know what happened, it wasn’t like that at all, it was just an unfortunate situation", he said, explaining that the episode ended up being fatal for his aspirations at Porto.

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