Rui Costa v Luís Filipe Vieira: Benfica presidency heats up | OneFootball

Luís Filipe Vieira wants to debate Rui Costa during the campaign for the Benfica elections scheduled for October 25. The former president of the Luz club has already defined a strategy that is also a challenge to the current leader of the Reds.

The former top leader of the eagles recently confirmed that he will run for the presidency to try to save the "legacy" he left and says is being destroyed. According to the Record newspaper, the former eagles leader believes that a face-to-face 'confrontation' with Rui Costa will be the only one that can be truly clarifying for the Red Partners.

Luís Filipe Vieira led Benfica for 17 years, between October 2003 and June 2021. Rui Costa, then vice-president of the club, took over the place after Vieira's dismissal, having won Francisco Benítez in the October 2021 electoral act.

Furthermore, he made harsh criticisms of the way the electoral process is being organized. The candidate denounced what he says is an "intentona" within the Board, carried out in June, to prevent him from running, "and which had the active participation" of one of the members of the General Assembly.

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