Quaresma on son at Sporting: I don't go to Alcochete | OneFootball

Ricardo Quaresma spoke about his relationship with Sporting. Despite being one of the main highlights in the legends game held at Alvalade Stadium, the former player revealed that he couldn't get back into the routines of high-performance sport again and that his new focus is his son, Ricky, who also plays for the lions.

“People often ask me if I was still ready to continue playing. These are different situations, one thing is to play for fun, another is to play seriously. I don't know if I had the patience to return to that routine, I'm happy this way. Now the most important thing is to accompany my children, especially since I have a son who plays for Sporting, and I try to accompany him as much as possible”, he told the newspaper A Bola.

With his son playing at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, Ricardo Quaresma confessed that he has not yet returned to Alcochete, a place where he was happy: “I don't go to Alcochete. We leave the kids at Alvalade and they have a bus to take them. I don't go to Alcochete, because the players who live in Lisbon take a bus from José Alvalade Stadium to Alcochete”.

The former player said he is happy to see his son with the lions: “I am happy because I look at my son and I see the happiness in him to represent Sporting”, concluded the former ‘number 20’ of the Alvalade Club, showing signs that his son is following in his footsteps. Ricardo Quaresma, now 41 years old, was trained at the lions, from where he left in 2003/2004, for Barcelona, having swapped the Catalans for Porto the following year.

For Sporting's main team, the Portuguese forward played 74 matches, in which he scored ten goals and 12 assists. For the green and whites, the king of the trivela won a National Championship (2001/02), a Super Cup (2002) and a Portugal Cup (2001/02).

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