Rui Costa hits back at Varandas, slams FPF mapping as serious | OneFootball

Portuguese football is going through another turbulent period, with the three major clubs engaging in tense exchanges of words, where the Portuguese Football Federation is also targeted. Recently, Rui Costa, President of Benfica, once again spoke out about the club mapping that exists within the FPF.

In an interview given to TSF, Rui Costa - who filed a complaint with Liga Portugal - responded to the statements made by Frederico Varandas, who brought up the topic last Sunday, October 5: “I consider this serious. It wasn’t even raised by any of the current presidents of Portuguese football.”

However, the President of Benfica did not stop there and argued that it is necessary to scrutinize what is happening in the FPF, particularly at the level of the Governing Bodies: “Having these numbers out in the open requires an internal survey to find out who is aligned with whom.”

Nonetheless, Rui Costa pointed the finger at Frederico Varandas, stating that it is not normal for his counterpart to have access to this information when no one else does: “Strangely, the president of Sporting had access to a figure that no one else had.”

“This is serious and should not have happened, regardless of the club preferences of the people working at the Federation, whose identities we do not know. These are numbers that only a president has, and we would all like to know how they reached that conclusion,” he concluded in statements to TSF.

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