Sporting rival: Varandas accused of teaming up with league chief | OneFootball

After several weeks of tense relations between Sporting and Porto, André Villas-Boas once again attacked Frederico Varandas. This time, the Porto leader accused the President of the Alvalade club of a “holy alliance” with... Rui Costa’s Benfica.

“Football is at a crossroads filled with challenges that even put its integrity into question in several aspects. We are witnessing movements that seek to impose environments susceptible to illegitimate interests, distorting the truth of the competition,” he said to Dragões magazine.

“To the interests of investors of dubious origin, who insist on trying to force their way into Portuguese football, to the fog that hangs in the air over sports betting by direct participants in the game, as we recently saw in the NBA and Turkish football cases, there is also a national partisanship that allows centralism to become more and more shamelessly entrenched, whether riding on the back of a saturated media system that pollutes more than it clarifies, or through ‘holy alliances’ on the second ring road aimed at weakening Porto, its values and principles,” he shot, taking a jab at Sporting and Benfica.

It is worth recalling that the relationship between Sporting and Porto has been troubled in recent times. The Alvalade club promised to take disciplinary action against the Dragons after André Villas-Boas’s words at the Portugal Football Globes Gala were seen as an attack “against the honor of President Frederico Varandas and the reputation of Sporting SAD.”

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