It was in an apotheotic environment that the Sporting Clube de Portugal delegation was received in the early afternoon of this Friday at Beja airport, on the way back from Graz, after the historic victory, the first of the lion club in Austria.
Flight 3L322, carried out on a Hi Fly Airbus, landed on the Air Base runway 11, to 12,45 hours, with more than a hundred fans of the Alvalade club, waiting outside the airport for the green and white delegation to disembark.
The team quickly got on the bus heading to the Alcochete Academy where the team will do some numbness training, aiming to prepare for the Portuguese League game where Sporting will host next Monday, a partir the 21,30 hours, the Arouca.
The arrival, Ruben Amorim was one of the most requested by Leo fans for autographs and the usual selfies, not making any comments, telling Lidador NotÃcias (LN) that “I can’t speakâ€.
Frederico Varandas, President of Sporting, did not talk about the game, saying only that Beja airport “is a place that gave us luckâ€, finished.
After the departure of the bus with the leonine team, Manuel Fernandes knows, Sporting's eternal captain and goalscorer, who was greatly welcomed and requested by fans to record the moment in photos and videos. The former player, native of Sarilhos Grandes, confessed to LN that “it was a difficult but fair victory, and won wellâ€, once again highlighting what he said at the match, assuring that Sporting “is currently the best playing football in Portugalâ€, justified.
About the historic and apotheotic return by Beja, Manuel Fernandes “will forever be etched in his memory due to his first victory in Austria. I have many friends here in the region and despite having left a few years ago, Alexandre Caneiras is always in my memoryâ€, concluded.
Goal by Nuno Santos candidate for the Puskás Prize (FIFA)
Minutes before the landing of the plane that brought the Sporting delegation back to Portugal, it became known that Nuno Santos' stunning goal against Boavista, in the 24th round of the League 2022/23, It is between 11 nominated for the Puskás Prize, list from which the three finalists will emerge who will then be at “The Best†gala , from FIFA.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
