Carmen Garcia slams ex-Sporting official for Rui Borges attack, "hard to watch" | OneFootball

Jaime Marta Soares, former president of the Sporting General Assembly, harshly criticized the team and coach Rui Borges after the 3-0 defeat against Bodø/Glimt, in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16. Carmen Garcia disapproves of the statements made by the former president of the Lions’ General Assembly.

"You can’t imagine how hard it is for me to see Jaime Marta Soares, whose role was so important during Sporting’s worst moment, now making comments like 'Rui Borges does not have the stature or status for Sporting'. The man took us directly to the Champions League round of 16 with victories over two reigning national champions (PSG and Club Brugge) and historic football clubs like Athletic Bilbao, and there are even those who dare to call him small?" she wrote in her opinion piece for the newspaper 'A Bola'.

Regarding the match against Bodo/Glimt this Tuesday, the nurse wants an infernal atmosphere at Alvalade. "Sporting fans are mobilized. The idea is to turn Alvalade into a volcano — the kind of volcano possible at five in the afternoon, let’s say. And to make the players feel that at Sporting, with the lion on their chest, nothing is impossible," she wrote.

To conclude, Carmen Garcia once again criticized the former Sporting official. "It’s also because of this, because there’s a tie to turn around and the team needs to feel we’re together, that the statements of Jaime Marta Soares and the attitudes of some fans become even more serious. It’s true that, as the Spanish say, even on Noah’s Ark there were woodpeckers trying to pierce the hull. But at this stage, those woodpeckers are absolutely unnecessary at Sporting," she said.

The green and white team will thus take the field again next Tuesday, March 17, once more against Bodo/Glimt. The match, the second leg of this Champions League round, against the team led by Kjetil Knutsen, will be played at 5:45 p.m. at Alvalade.

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