Benfica take note, Pedro Proença on FPF mapping: There isn’t… | OneFootball

Confronted with alleged club mapping in the FPF, Pedro Proença issued a warning to Benfica and its rivals and clarified everything on the subject.

Pedro Proença, president of the Portuguese Football Federation, spoke out about the controversy regarding an alleged club mapping of the governing bodies. Shortly after Rui Costa addressed the issue, considering it 'serious' that something of this nature could happen, the head of the FPF denied its existence.

Amid an open war between Benfica and its rivals, the top official of Portuguese football sought to set the record straight: "There is no club mapping whatsoever. Let's be clear. When the electoral process took place, everyone knows—it's public knowledge—the club tendencies, and I would even say possibly religious or political tendencies of the candidates."

Present at the Portugal Football Summit, Proença explained the requirements for the choices he made for his list: "The FPF has highly competent people in its top ranks and that was the criteria when this candidacy was chosen, competent people capable of organizing, for example, these world-renowned events."

"There is a new chapter at the FPF, particularly in terms of compliance rules and best practices. Today, people are independent. I have been in football for almost 30 years, I have been through very delicate, difficult areas, and I have never hidden what my choices were," he added.

Finally, Pedro Proença once again emphasized that there is no club mapping within the institution and stated the following: "What I am pleased to note, as president of the FPF, is that today at the FPF we have competence, independent people who want to govern the organization by these principles, and from which I will not deviate."

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