Vítor Pinto on Rui Borges at Sporting: “Fake Amorim? He’ll come unstuck” | OneFootball

Rui Borges continues to be compared to Ruben Amorim, but Vítor Pinto believes that Sporting’s current coach should move away from that idea and build his own path. The deputy editor of the newspaper Record especially highlighted the way the manager managed to assert himself in a dressing room he found in a fragile state.

On the program ‘Record na Hora’, on Now, Vítor Pinto even began by joking about the comparison: “There are several things Rui Borges can do. He already has a few tattoos on his arms, now he can grow a Ruben Amorim-style beard, and with a few cosmetic procedures find a way to end up with a more appealing look in the Ruben Amorim style, because that comparison is made a lot.”

He then moved on to a more serious analysis of Sporting’s coach’s profile. “Now, speaking a little more seriously, the coach’s personality and bearing are a different kind of approach and a different kind of discourse, but Rui Borges is also a coach with ideas and boldness, even in his own life. He’s also a little outside the box.”

Vítor Pinto believes Rui Borges does not have the same public charisma as Ruben Amorim, but makes up for that difference in other areas. “Even with this bolder look of Rui Borges, we all already know his personality, he has been at Sporting long enough, and there are two sides to his positioning: the external one, where in fact he does not have that hypnotic ability to rally the masses that coaches with that very strong charisma manage to have at a certain point.”

Even so, the commentator highlighted what he considers to be one of the great qualities of the Sporting coach. “Back in Mirandela, they didn’t teach him to play the flute. But what does he have? He has a surprising ability to handle the dressing room of a big club like Sporting from the very first moment, and Sporting’s dressing room was in pieces.”

That adaptation to the Alvalade context earned strong praise. “That is extraordinary for a coach who did not come through any big club as a player, did not have a great international career, came from the bottom and built his career through sheer hard work. The way he managed to impose himself at Sporting, to me, is extraordinary.”

The comparison with Ruben Amorim, however, should be left aside. “How could Rui Borges possibly be the same as Ruben Amorim? He couldn’t. Rui Borges has to follow his own path, because if he tries to be a knock-off Ruben Amorim, or some other kind of knock-off high-profile coach, it will end badly for him,” he concluded.

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