Porto youth took selfie with Benfica fan, dropped for the season | OneFootball

David Sualehe, currently playing for FC Noah in Armenia, began his training at CAC Pontinha and went through the youth academies of Sporting and FC Porto before reaching the senior level, where he played for clubs such as V. Guimarães, Farense, Paços de Ferreira, and Académica. His departure from FC Porto was marked by a controversy related to an incident involving Benfica scarves—which forced him to apologize—and which he recalled to ‘Tribuna Expresso’.

“I was a junior player at FC Porto and my father was Rui Vitória’s agent, who at the time was Benfica’s coach. My season was coming to an end. It goes without saying that there is a fierce rivalry between FC Porto and Benfica. That year, Benfica’s first team became champions and on the day Benfica was playing the title-deciding match, I was driving to Lisbon with two friends. Ever since I signed with FC Porto, I genuinely supported FC Porto, I wanted them to win, it was my club at the time. But, as I said, I was in the car with two friends, taking one of them to Lisbon. She was going to watch the game and was carrying a Benfica scarf with her. I ended up being a bit naive. We took a selfie, it was something meant to stay between us, and I even said, don’t post this anywhere, because I’m an FC Porto player and I can’t take these kinds of photos. She said she would keep it, that it was just for us. But then, she sent the selfie to some friend, and the photo started to circulate and spread—we all know how social media and the internet work. It became a huge problem, that photo ended up everywhere, with the fans, the management, and people saw it as a sign of disrespect. I know what happened, it wasn’t like that at all, it was just an unfortunate situation. But from then on, things started to deteriorate a lot at FC Porto. I ended up being sidelined from the team, I didn’t play again until the end of the season, my coach, Folha, asked FC Porto’s management to let me stay with the team because I was an important player in the group, but I couldn’t play, only train. I trained with them until the end, we became champions. I was in talks to renew with FC Porto before this happened, but because of the situation, it became unthinkable,” he said.

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