Lila Durão: “We’re more than ready to win back trophies” | OneFootball

With eight new faces from "very good and very professional contexts" among the 14 athletes available to Miguel Coelho, the FC Porto women's volleyball team kicked off the preseason with "a different training" at Madalena beach, where they began to form "a very united group" that will be "a family throughout the entire season".

"Super excited" and "very happy" to start the third campaign in blue and white, Lila Durão felt her teammates were "more than ready" and "eager to work" to "win everything there is to win". "Our priority is the championship and the Cup, and we want to deliver both trophies to the Museum at the end of the year," assured the setter, eager to "show what the FC Porto mystique is" to the new teammates.

Training outside the pavilion“Since the team arrived, it was almost as if we had known each other for some time, we all got along very well right away, and this is a different training than we are used to inside the Dragão Arena. It forces us to create new connections, and that brings us even closer. It makes us much more supportive of each other because it's a more challenging task than starting in the pavilion. This helps us create a very united group and be a family throughout the entire season.”

New signings“The thought behind building the team and choosing the athletes started right there, and we have players coming from very good, very professional contexts, who know how to be and do what is needed to build a team. This has been something very natural, it wasn't discussed or planned, very natural connections are quickly formed, and that's also a very beautiful thing.”

Third season in blue and white“I feel super excited and I am very happy. It's true that not much time has passed, but very positive energies have already been transmitted, and we are more than ready to return and reclaim what we so desire, which is the championship and the cups. There is a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of happiness, and a strong desire to work.”

Demand on the horizon“I think everyone received the same message from the moment they signed a contract with FC Porto. The goal is to win everything there is to win. We have the championship and the Portuguese Cup as the main fronts, and then we also have the CEV Cup, which will not be set aside and will be approached with great ambition as a very difficult competition, but our priority is the championship and the Cup, and we want to deliver the two trophies to the Museum at the end of the year.”

“We have already explained to all the new athletes that this will be one of the most beautiful things they will experience because FC Porto is a very different club, and the fans are truly special. We are eager to show them what this mystique is and who our fans are, who have been so important to us in good and bad times, and I hope they believe and stay with us during this process. We promise to bring them much joy.”

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