Former Rui Borges teammate recalls time with Sporting boss: old warhorse | OneFootball

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·6 octobre 2025

Former Rui Borges teammate recalls time with Sporting boss: old warhorse

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Pedro Machado recalled the times when he was a teammate of Rui Borges. At a time when the current Sporting coach - who has already analyzed the draw against Braga - still had a career on the field, the two names were teammates at Mirandela in the 2015/16 season, with the Lions' coach already close to retiring from the field.

Pedro Machado: "Rui Borges? In football jargon, he was that old carcass, which had quality"

"He was in the final phase of his career, but he was a good player. In football jargon, he was that old carcass, which had quality. He was the team captain, you could already see in him the desire to, especially with us, the youngsters, help with guidance, with some advice," said the Al Tadhamon player in statements to the newspaper Record.


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"I was already paying attention to certain things, I had some conversations with him and he always tried to help me with what he felt I could improve," added Pedro Machado, who then revealed he was not surprised by Rui Borges' arrival at the helm of Sporting.

"It didn't surprise me there, because he moved from Vitória to Sporting and I already recognized a lot of quality in him. I was surprised when he started his career at Mirandela and the path he took at Académico de Viseu. I always followed his trajectory and began to realize that his teams had something special," he stated.

In conclusion, Pedro Machado confessed that a potential move of Rui Borges to Sporting had already been a topic of conversation at his home, thanks to his wife: "My wife is a Sporting fan and with Ruben Amorim's departure, we even discussed that Rui Borges would be the ideal coach for the work he was doing at Vitória and for what I knew of him as a colleague. I was very happy to see that he was indeed the chosen one."

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