No doubts over Sporting elections: Varandas heading for landslide | OneFootball

On March 14th, elections will be held at Sporting. Frederico Varandas is expected to have only one opponent: Bruno Sá, owner of the restaurant "Cantinho do Sá". With just one adversary and due to the sporting success of recent years, Nuno Raposo has no doubt that the current leader of the Lions will win by a wide margin.

"The outcome, there is no doubt, will be a landslide victory for Varandas for a third term, which in 2018 few would have predicted, after a second term that at the time was also considered impossible, even more so that it would be won with over 85 percent of the votes," he writes in his opinion piece in 'A Bola'.

The journalist explains his position. "Varandas now runs the risk of reaching 90%, not because these are 'Korean-style' elections as they once were in a dark period of the club's history, not due to a democratic deficit that such percentages often reflect, but because we are in the context of football and of a club that in eight years has won in men's senior 11-a-side football almost as many national championships as in the previous 40 years."

Bruno Sá will formalize his candidacy, but Nuno Raposo thinks there should be a more "challenging" opponent for Varandas. "Single-candidate elections always end up being an act that is not to be celebrated, so having competition is to be welcomed. But Sporting deserved for the opponent to have more weight, even for the good of Frederico Varandas, who would certainly see that challenge as more enticing."

In the coming days, the support being gathered should become clearer, with the lists for the different governing bodies already practically defined. The electoral act will take place at Pavilhão João Rocha on Saturday, March 14th, between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Candidacies must be submitted by 6:00 p.m. on February 12th.

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