Sporting starter says Portuguese football is aggressive | OneFootball

In a testimony about his experience in Portugal and his relationship with Japan, his home country, Hidemasa Morita spoke about the last few years he spent on Portuguese soil and believes that football in Portugal is lived much more intensely, unlike in Japan.

"On the other hand, Portuguese football is aggressive and you can really feel that, for both players and fans, football is life itself. It is a cultural characteristic that we do not have in Japan," he said in an interview with the RTP 2 program "10,000 km Back to Japan".

To reinforce his opinion, the 30-year-old Sporting player used the fans of the "big three" as an example. "Of course there are the derbies, with Porto, Benfica and Sporting, three big clubs. Whenever there is a match, the fans are incredible, right? They support us and you can tell that football is part of life, it is not just a sport", he said.

It is worth remembering that the midfielder is in the final stretch of his contract and will leave the Alvalade club from next summer.

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