Through tears and memories: Jorge Costa lives on in Olival’s heart | OneFootball

In a context where the exchange of accusations between club presidents—who were supposed to belong to a new generation—has become common, it was moving to see the president of FC Porto, André Villas-Boas, turn a ceremonial event into an eminently personal moment.

The proposal was to name the Olival training center, where the Dragons have trained for over 20 years, after Jorge Costa on the date of his passing. Present were the closest family members of the former player—Dª Maria Adelaide Estela, David, Guilherme, and Salvador—and perhaps because of this, the president of the Dragons began to get choked up before concluding the speech he had prepared. He praised Jorge Costa both from a historical and institutional perspective, within the required formality.

Jorge Costa was one of the pillars of FC Porto's reconstruction after Pinto da Costa, having assumed his role a few weeks after Villas-Boas won the elections. He is now present with the team in another, more symbolic way. The president emphasized that this "small gesture should have been done in life and will never repay all we owe him, the privilege of having had him with us."

It would be desirable for those with responsibilities to understand that episodes like this contribute more to the representation of clubs than other actions filled with negative energy. And Villas-Boas emerged from this moment marked by the power of the 'beast.'

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