Villas-Boas blasts Benfica over Proença: “What a cruel way…” | OneFootball

André Villas-Boas, president of FC Porto, wrote again in his regular opinion column in the latest issue of Revista Dragões, published this Tuesday, delivering harsh criticism of Benfica following the recent trip by the blue-and-whites to the Estádio da Luz, where the president of the Portuguese Football Federation was seated in the sixth row of the presidential box.

“Let us continue with SL Benfica in its 2026/2027 version, still without a software ‘update’ for the Portuguese club with the second-most football titles. After denying the National Team the use of their stadium, they decided to assign the President of the Portuguese Football Federation a seat in the sixth row of the stand, after the unauthorized release of excerpts from private conversations which Pedro Proença himself described as truncated, incomplete and taken out of context, but in which he stated that he had been called to the Judicial Police several times in connection with cases related to Benfica and recalled that the investigations were conducted at Liga Portugal, the institution he headed. What a cruel and disrespectful way to treat an institutional figure of the utmost importance,” Villas-Boas wrote.

The Porto leader also aimed criticism at Frederico Varandas, Sporting’s president: “Perhaps he will take the opportunity to present the second volume of his work on sporting truth, this time with the suggestive title: ‘The possible standardization and the miracle of permanent coincidence’” – and he also referred to Rodrigo Mora’s transfer to AS Roma.

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