Sporting Clube de Portugal returned today to using Beja airport on its trip to Poland, onde no Zaglebiowski Sports Park, em Sosnowiec, will face KC Rakow tomorrow, in a Europa League game.
The return of the “lions” to Portugal will take place on Friday, also via Beja airport, with arrival scheduled for around 13:15 hours.
The leonine entourage took place on flight 3L631, a Hi Fly Airbus, that took off from the Air Base runway 11, to 15,45 hours, that in addition to the team and its staff, more than a hundred Corporate guests and fans of the Alvalade club traveled, accompanying the team on its trip to Poland.
Bejense’s aeronautical infrastructure is seen by green-white fans as the “lucky airport”, then celebrates victory in Austria, against Sturm Graz, Sporting Clube de Portugal once again used Beja airport and everyone is waiting for a repeat of the success in Graz where the team “killed the game”, achieving victory for the first time in that country.
Even without making statements to the journalists present, coach Ruben Amorim, and player Viktor Gyokeres, distinguished by Liga Portugal, respectively, as the best coach and best striker in the Portuguese championship in September, were the most requested for autographs and photographs, by the Leonine fans present at the door of Beja airport.
To Poland, the scenario is identical, as it is the third visit of the “lions” to Polish soil, where in the previous two matches they drew and lost at Legia de Warsaw. in the season of 2011/12, in Europa League games, Sporting drew 2-2 in Poland and won in Alvalade by 2-1, and, in 2016/17, in the group stage of “Champions”, won 2, Lisbon by 2-1 and lost in Warsaw by 1-0.
The Leonine team followed “the recipe” they used in the game against the Austrians. He trained in the morning and had lunch at the Alcochete Academy, The trip to Beja followed, where did he leave for Katowice, airport near the city of Sosnowiec where the game takes place.
It is the third visit of the “lions” to Polish soil, where in the previous two matches they drew and lost at Legia de Warsaw. in the season of 2011/12, in Europa League games, Sporting drew 2-2 in Poland and won in Alvalade by 2-1, and, in 2016/17, in the group stage of “Champions”, won 2, Lisbon by 2-1 and lost in Warsaw by 1-0.
Sporting faces Polish side Rakow tomorrow, in matchday three of Group D of the Europa League, in what is an attempt to return to victories, after the home defeat against Atalanta.
The return of the “lions” to Portugal will take place on Friday, also via Beja airport, with arrival scheduled for around 13:15 hours.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
