Miguel Brás da Cunha: Clear differences with Benfica, but never this disrespect | OneFootball

Miguel Brás da Cunha, a member of the FC Porto Superior Council and elected by the independent list ‘For a Greater, United, Insubmissive, and Eclectic FC Porto’, called for the severance of institutional relations with Sporting, following public statements by the Sporting president, Frederico Varandas, after the Portuguese Cup classic. The lawyer believes that limits have been crossed and that the relationship with Sporting is more deteriorated than with the other rival, Benfica.

“There are clear differences with Benfica, there are also behaviors that we believe are not the most correct, but they have not reached this level of lack of education that is evident in the behavior of the Sporting president. In this regard, there is at this exact moment a difference in behavior that, in our view, deserves a difference in treatment also by FC Porto,” said Miguel Brás da Cunha, in statements to Record, thus justifying the statement issued on Thursday afternoon by the movement he leads.

“Firstly, we express total alignment and solidarity with the president of FC Porto, for the way he has managed the club, especially in these more recent times. Secondly, we express total solidarity in the face of what we consider to be an attack on the honor of the club president and consequently also on FC Porto made by the president of a rival club, which is Sporting. This is the most immediate reason. In this context, it seems to us that in the face of repeated behavior, which has already targeted the honorary president of FC Porto, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, at a time subsequent to his passing, and now also targets the president of FC Porto, elected by the club's members, we believe that the club cannot maintain institutional relations with a club that identifies with this kind of statements and behaviors by its president. We think that effective, formal conclusions should be drawn from the disrespect that has been repeatedly shown towards FC Porto, in the person of its president. First with Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa and now with André Villas-Boas,” explained the member of the Superior Council of the dragons, understanding that “it is not possible to maintain relations” with Sporting.

Miguel Brás da Cunha argues that more than suspending formal contacts, it is necessary to break institutional relations as long as this type of conduct persists. “FC Porto, while this behavior persists, cannot have at any level, be it sporting or any other, institutional relations with a club that identifies with such an ill-mannered behavior by its president.” He added that when the figure of the club president is belittled, the entire institution is being offended, a situation that, according to him, is happening at this moment in relation to FC Porto.

The statement from the independent movement aimed to support the president and urge the club to react against Sporting.

“We show total availability to, in whatever the president deems necessary and in fulfilling our duty as a member of the Superior Council, defend the interests of the club. At the same time, to express to the body of which we are part that it seems to us that there should be a formal will on the part of FC Porto to cut institutional relations with Sporting. Hence, we have addressed our statement to the president of the General Assembly Board, with the intention that the topic be discussed in the Superior Council and subsequently, in a broader sense, in the General Assembly,” concluded the lawyer.

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