André Villas-Boas: Winning at FC Porto isn’t easy, thanks to Pinto da Costa | OneFootball

On the day marking one year since the death of Pinto da Costa, André Villas-Boas publishes this Sunday, in the ‘Jornal de Notícias’, an extensive opinion piece praising the legacy of the leader who guided the destiny of the dragons for 42 years.

“Thanks to Pinto da Costa, today we know that victory at FC Porto does not come from comfort: it comes from overcoming, from demand, and from firmness in protecting our principles. (…) We know all this because we were left with a strong and powerful club, a winner by merit, tough by necessity, and infinitely more noble than the hypocritical and falsely moralistic discourse with which, so often, they try to diminish us. Today FC Porto is greater than any attack, greater than any caricature, greater than any campaign,” he wrote.

“Of unusual sagacity, wisdom, and intelligence,” Pinto da Costa is described by his successor as someone who “never settled for the idiosyncrasies of a centralist country, where power was often confused with geography, influence with privilege, and where the narrative about FC Porto continues to be cooked in a noise that is neither impartial, nor fair, nor clean.”

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