Vítor Pereira backs Lucho and Castro: “They’ll help Farioli a lot” | OneFootball

Back at the Dragão, Vítor Pereira is preparing to reunite with several familiar faces in Thursday’s match between FC Porto and Nottingham Forest. Some of those reunions were brought up in the pre-match press conference, with the former Dragons coach praising the way André Villas-Boas has been steering the club.

“FC Porto is a great club and still is. It has a huge history, but clubs live on titles, and when you’re not winning, it’s normal for there to be turbulence. I followed all of that closely and with a certain emotional connection. I see an FC Porto in transition, rebuilding its mystique, competing to win. That’s how clubs rise from the ashes. I felt great sadness over the death of president Pinto da Costa, someone incomparable in terms of titles. Now the president is new, intelligent, has ideas, and is trying to put the club back at the top, competing for everything,” said Vítor Pereira, before going on to speak about the career progress of Lucho González and André Castro, two players he coached at FC Porto and who are now part of Farioli’s coaching staff.

“I already expected Castro and Lucho to become coaches, in this case assistants. They were both team players who brought people together around them. Castro was always a motivator, with contagious energy. It doesn’t surprise me that FC Porto made use of him in the first team to help create that mystique he truly has. Lucho, meanwhile, was a captain of the highest level, very intelligent, and I had no doubt he would also become a coach. FC Porto did very well to recruit him. They both have a lot to offer, and I’m sure they have helped and will help Farioli a great deal,” said the coach.

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