Vieira slams Rui Costa, accuses Benfica of betrayal and disloyalty | OneFootball

Luís Filipe Vieira launched a fierce attack on Rui Costa. A candidate in the Benfica elections, the former president of the club spoke of "betrayal," ensuring that the current top leader of the Eagles has not acted correctly in their recent times together in management.

"I learned at Benfica to live with hypocrisy. When I understood that I had to leave so that Benfica would not be harmed, I left. When I heard his (Rui Costa's) speech, I felt betrayed and realized that there were many traitors," he said on the program Dois às 10.

For Luís Filipe Vieira, "a football player has two facets: when they are idols and when they stop being so." The former president of the club made it very clear that he is hurt by Rui Costa: "Betrayal is never forgiven, nor is disloyalty."

At the same time, he promised to Benfica, should he be elected president, and revealed that, at the time of the Portuguese international's departure, he tried to keep the player at all costs.

"It doesn't matter, but there are witnesses. I was renewing with several players. Curiously, in the end, there was a situation where I asked where Bernardo Silva was. They said Bernardo Silva is not to be renewed. Not to be renewed? Tomorrow we will deal with that. And that's how it was. At Benfica everyone knows," he admitted.

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