Villas-Boas on handball row: “Attack the club, pay” | OneFootball

In the editorial of Dragões Magazine, André Villas-Boas again addressed the incidents that preceded FC Porto-Sporting in handball at the Dragão Arena, reaffirming the club’s calm stance on the matter and leaving “a clear message.”

“Added to that unease is the FC Porto-Sporting handball episode. And here I leave a clear message: FC Porto is absolutely calm and cooperating with the justice system. What happened, what was done, and what was not done is well documented above all. And those involved who chose insult and the attempt to tarnish the Institution will answer for it to the fullest extent. At FC Porto, defending the club is not an emotional reaction: it is a firm, grounded, and documented position. And whoever chooses to attack the Institution will have to pay the price for those choices,” he began by writing.

“All of this reached the point where they were begging for urgent meetings at the highest political level. And when sport reaches this level of degradation, the country should understand the scale of the problem, or the inferiority complex of some people. What we then saw was the portrait of a strange time: talking points read from paper by a President, so as not to stray from the narrative of his communication advisers, and a communication machine permanently mobilized to manufacture perceptions, as if football were a studio and not a game,” he concluded.

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